There’s an old saying that you have to work at marriage. Now while that’s definitely true, it helps if you start off with the right raw materials: some interests in common, compatible goals in life, an ability to compromise and adapt, an ability to listen, compatible beliefs about childraising and financial management, mutual respect, and that indeterminate ‘chemistry’. While you don’t have to have a full house, it helps if you have a few of the cards in your hand.

The more you see of relationships the clearer it becomes that chance plays a major role in their success. When you consider the changes we go through as we get older, it’s a wonder that any two people who had compatible goals and needs in their twenties are still on the same wavelength at sixty or seventy. People would need to change in the same direction as they get older to continue to fulfil each other’s needs.

Add to this the well established fact that respective sexual peaks of men and women happen in totally separate decades of life, then you start to suspect there really might be something to this theory about the Creator with a wry sense of humor. But let’s take a look at this ‘well established fact’.

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