[John Beresford Tipton]

"My prescription: write out a list of all the things that were imperfect about her."

My father taught me that in making a decision to take a large legal pad, draw a line down the center of it, and list the plusses in one column, and the minuses in the other.

Years later I came home one day to see true-love had just started two columns having only gotten as far as my name on one column and hers on the other. I knew I was cooked.

[expatpat]

....as far as my name on one column and hers on the other

Maybe she was just preparing a score-card for a game of Scrabble! Maybe not.....

[Guillermo]

Your father learned that method from Benjamin Franklin.