Can couples co-exist after a while? I believe, everything can be good, wonderful actually given its shortness of longevity. You might like coffee, it could be your very favourite, but may be, may be it makes more sense to have ginger lemon tea more often instead. You could write a novel and be famous, but till then you might need to carry on as a lawyer/doctor/ plumber, I don’t know!
Can you wake up to the same face all your life? Some people agree to, very willingly. I saw that myself, for the first time, and I felt it was the most right thing to do. But I won’t agree about any one else. Its so easy, comfortable, meaningful to talk about how two friends should not be together. I know they shouldn’t, because she could do better, and may be he is a scumbag, or the reverse. But its almost always the case.
I still believe, apart from finances, there is no real cause to marry. But that too is not a fair judgment. For won’t you have double the birthdays and anniversaries to attend? Isn’t a dog a better substitute. May be a stuffed animal?
Your whole damned life?!
When you are 80, you both would hardly be able to hear each other, unless you are lucky. That’s the time you need compassion the most, as you are already always complaining of extreme though non-existent ill-treatment. When you are 70, you might not be going out too much, and be sick of the others face. You might not be going out much and that could be because you always already have company. When you are 60, one of you can’t have seedy foods while the other prefers everything sour, so you anyway can’t order a meal and enjoy it too. When you are 50, one of you is probably an alcoholic who needs liver treatment. And the other one a nag. At 40, you’d be worried sick about something, and would hardly be nice to anyone. Thirties… Well, thirties are an all new ball game. You are still young, still beautiful to each other. Probably still not that familiar. But, this too won’t be possible if you stayed together. Every meal, every game. Books. You know everything then. And all you talk about is probably your day. Which has been long already. May be it would be good, if you took separate rooms and all. And tried to catch up when you could. But the rooms I guess would help. May be even change the course I just charted.
Some fool once told me that life is not a couplings’ episode. I say you got to do what you have to, to keep you happy. Have a nice year you all. 
