A personal relationship means how well one knows tthe person.
Here I will side a little more with metmom, though I think it a false opposition.
One does not need to be a great physiologist or a great psychologist to be a great lover or a great spouse.
But it couldn’t hoit!
And being a chaste lover and spouse sooner or later means being a parent, in the normal course of events. And there good psychology and sometimes good physiology really helps.
But the REAL DEAL is as metmom says. It’s better to be a lover and spouse than an anatomist and psychologist.
HOWEVER, some anatomists, psychologists, poets and songsters are also lovers and spouses, while not so many lovers and spouses are anatomists, psychologists, poets and songsters.
Earnestly desire the higher gifts.
I would beg to differ. You could know down to the last detail what a person liked to eat, where they live, their favorite color, the kind of car they drive, the names of their children and pets, and in the end it could amount to nothing more than memorizing facts about them.
I have a lot of friends about whom I could not answer most of those questions about them, but they are close dear friends, because it's about THEM, not knowing details about them. Yes, you do often learn those things about them, but that comes from knowing them. I don't relate to them on a personal level by studying them but by talking to them.