Terza Rima Day 16 Life

This Month Kat Myrman has suggested a new theme for the daily poem—the Terza Rima, writing one stanza each day.
A terza rima consists of stanzas of three lines (or tercets) usually in iambic pentameter. It follows an interlocking rhyming scheme, or chain rhyme. This is where the middle of each stanza rhymes with the first and last line of the following stanza. There is no set length to this form, as long as it follows

I shall be joining Kat Myrman and Jane Dougherty in this challenge.

Life… A Terza Rima,

It was not easy being a wife

So many compromises to play

Still the love, in those days,out weighed the strife.

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Installment 16 of Life for this month’s Terza Rima Daily Poem Challenge, one tercet at a time.