In the first quatrain of Sonnet 116, Shakespeare introduces someone who believes that true love does not bind itself to the constraints of society. True love exists between people who do not require the blessing of the law and will love each other despite those “impediments.” Shakespeare continues to reveal love as unchanging. This same love will not stumble when it runs up against change, even when these changes include temptations and other challenges intended to lure love away. This unity in love will not budge when there are attempts to move or remove it. Shakespeare draws with clear language to explain that love is a marriage, not of legal binding or within the limits of societal expectations, but an everlasting bond on its own. He points out that love is not real unless it withstands all these constraints and possible obstructions in its course. Thus we become familiar with the strength of love outside the confines of definition.