Am not trying to sound pessimistic but I seriously doubt there can possibly be someone out there that matches perfectly with the image we have of our ideal. Sure, a few will come close, very close...just not quite...

I do believe in love, and in the joy of being in love. Perfection is relative. I have faith in the ever-lasting commitment that a couple can make and abide by. Be it in marriage or otherwise. While I do not really see the need for marriage, my heart is constantly filled with joy when I see a couple join in unity with a promise to be there for each other for all eternity. Its a beautiful thing to be a part of.

Even in a marriage that is fundamentally fine, I believe a couple may have to live with a certain amount of loneliness. No two people match perfectly, and part of ourselves may never be understood by the person we had hoped would be our soulmate. There's nothing my boyfriend and partner of 3 years can do that will ever get me to share his mania for football and wrestling. Just as there's nothing I can do that will make him love the poems of Yeat. And yet, we love each other so very much, have been there for one another through situations that we may not have managed on our own as separate individuals. And I see a brilliant future ahead of us which makes my heart overflow with pride and happiness.

The fates of a couple that is meant to be may be linked until death do them part, and yet there will be moments, important moments, when one may turn to the other in desperate search of a reassuring 'I know what you mean' and draw a look of incomprehension.

People only partly connect, even with their nearest and dearest...and that's what I think about that...