Since love endures difference for the sake of friendships unity, sorrow will surely come, as will negative velleity toward the act and its circumstances. Friendship’s love still abides,indeed the forbearance is an expression of it, but the union its act sustains is less substantial precisely because it assumes less of the antecedent union that it once had, or at least assumed. As an act of friendship, this forbearance proceeds in the hope that this frayed union will be restored in some way; that differences might be resolved, that judgments and loves might once again converge, that friends once divided by hurts and wrongs might be reconciled. Its endurance creates the time and space for its hope to be fulfilled, and yet until then, this sorrow over lost union will accompany its love.11