A thought: No one - male or female - marries or gets into a relationship thinking it's going to break down into a lazy, unkempt, mildly hostile situation with m

A thought: No one - male or female - marries or gets into a relationship thinking it's going to break down into a lazy, unkempt, mildly hostile situation with minimal affection and no sex life with. Likewise, no one hires someone who they expect to half-ass it, break more things than they fix, and be a terrible coworker. Yet, bad hires are made and bad relationships/marriages are gotten into. I've studied quite a lot of social science. It's really, really dangerous to say, "Blah on statistics - I'm not average." Everyone thinks that. Better to understand them, really fully understand the natural pressures and challenges that come along with something, and if you don't like the consequences - fight them with your eyes open. If you're in love, you'll rationalize that your partner is perfect and that everything that applies to "all those other folk" don't apply to you. That's a bit dangerous for obvious reasons. That article's got a couple interesting points, and some ridiculous conclusions/extrapolations. Just keep in mind - when you see a statistic that you don't like and immediately go to dismiss as "not applicable to you" - well, don't dismiss it so fast. The older I get, the more I realize I'm part of all those statistics and commercials do, in fact, work on me like they do with everyone else.