""Looking at divorce rates is a crude and dangerous way to measure things."
Yes, looking at divorce rates is dangerous ... for divorce rates that is.
As Shakespeare had Puck put it, "What fools these mortals be!"
People spend a lifetime fashioning the blinders they wear, blinders intended to hide them from reality, blinders in the proverbial sense of the ostrich that hides it's head in the sand. (Ostriches are not so foolish in fact. Humans are.)
As Mark Twain put it, "What people don't know don't hurt them. What hurts them is what they do know that ain't so."
I wear those blinders made with wishful thinking like everyone else. I am just more afraid of not facing the truth than of truth itself.
so does finding a mate on the internet absolve you of the need to use COMMON SENSE? i mean, Lordy, people lie about stuff generally, let alone on the internet where they can get away with making any outrageous claim. several of my kids teachers have married people they met online, i can do my own personal survey of success. Now the one that married a widow with twin 2 year olds, in Vegas last Labor Day, after knowing her fewer than 6 mo, i worry about.
I have a BA, Sheryl had a 10th grade education.
I was a redneck Harley riding Biker, Sheryl claimed to hate redneck Bikers.
Sheryl liked walks in the warm rain (really!), I did not.
The list of differences would be far longer than a list of similarities.
At 34, he wakes up to find out he's suddenly gay...
So people who get married sometimes get divorced. Is that what this article says?
My fiance and I met here on FreeRepublic. Talk about knowing that you've got a lot in common! I know other couples who have met here too. I think it's better than a matchmaking site.
Um how could she get to know the real person when Mr. Frassica obviously did not know himself?