Once you’ve identified that special someone, it’s implied, as stated in the vows mutually taken, that you’re supposed to stay together until you die. But considering how long we’re now living, it’s borderline ludicrous to imagine that two separate human beings will grow and change at exactly the same rate in exactly the same directions, like synchronized swimmers or conjoined twin cherries…so their compatibility is as robust and true as their desire to be able to hang on to the end.
