A common example of a Metaphor System.
In his essay in Ortony 1993, George Lakoff introduces the Love is a Journey metaphor with these examples:
> Look how far we’ve come. > What a long, strange trip it’s been. > Our marriage is at a crossroads. > This relationship isn’t going anywhere. > We may have to go our separate ways.
Lakoff glosses the metaphor like this:
> “The lovers are travelers on a journey together, with their common life goals seen as destinations to be reached. The relationship is their vehicle, and it allows them to pursue those common goals together. The relationship is seen as fulfilling its purpose as long as it allows them to make progress toward their common goals. The journey isn’t easy. There are impediments, and there are places (crossroads) where a decision has to be made about which direction to go in and whether to keep traveling together.”