I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Romijn’s remark frames lasting partnership as a practice rather than a feeling: relationships “work” only through sustained, often unglamorous labor. The emphasis on “tremendous amount of effort” pushes back against the idea that compatibility alone guarantees ease, while “accepting of one another” highlights tolerance for difference as the ethical core of intimacy. Read together, the line suggests that commitment is less about changing a partner than about choosing, repeatedly, to meet them where they are—negotiating conflict, accommodating growth, and maintaining goodwill. It’s a pragmatic, adult view of love that treats mutual acceptance as the condition that makes effort fruitful rather than exhausting.