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Sometimes I think I should stop watching movies. In how many movies does a character not end up finding their true love, their soul mate? Even in the sad ones in which the partner of their dreams dies, or they cannot be physically together permanently, or must be illicit, at least the soul mates still find each other. They still have a moment, or more. How prevalent is this in real life? In all these people in the entire world, do soul mates exist? One must, no? Nevertheless, what if you're a single mother on welfare in Hicksville, USA, due to nearly unavoidable circumstances, and your soul mate is a businessman in Denmark? That match likely is unattainable.

Is it even something to be concerned about? Can the average person live a completely fulfilling life without ever having the experience of true love? Should one be satisfied to spend the rest of his or her life with someone who professes undying love, yet measures his or her happiness each day by whether an argument with the spouse was avoided, which is to say, the spouse probably held his or her tongue on occasion or otherwise consciously modified his or her behavior so as not to set off the other. But is that marriage, honest marriage?
Is it, in fact, a dance in which each partner learns, maybe eventually perfecting, these intricate steps, unique to each individual, to avoid tripping the partner's irritability, for which there is no instructional book, video, or class? No, marriage should not be a situation in which one must learn to dance around his or her partner's insecurities or issues. Rather, marriage should be a situation in which the partners learn to dance together. Instead of dancing around the issues, maybe one partner lifts the other through the issue, or both step right into the issues, get right into the middle of it, tango with it, work it out until you're both gliding through life, making it look simple to all the blindly in love newlyweds.

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