Ephron captures something subtler than simple romantic enthusiasm—she's describing the particular vertigo of recognition, when certainty arrives suddenly and makes the present moment feel unbearably slow. Most love stories celebrate the feeling; she instead honors the impatience itself, suggesting that true partnership creates an almost physical need to stop performing the courtship and begin the actual living. A couple might spend months planning a wedding while secretly resenting every day that passes before they can simply wake up together as husband and wife, not because the engagement lacks joy, but because waiting becomes genuinely painful once you've glimpsed the life you want. The wisdom lies in validating that urgency as evidence of something real, rather than treating it as the reckless impulse it might appear to be.