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My parents met in college in the late 40s. I met my wife at a bar through friends in 1986. @BrainVision, is there any correlation between where a couple meets and the length of the relationship?

Damn, sorry I missed this. Yes, there is a correlation, but it's complicated. The more powerful models include location/setting as a coefficient in multiple regression equations or multilevel analyses. Generally, the more the setting includes either an external expectation of success, e.g., church or an arranged marriage, or more intensive/persistent proximity, e.g., workplaces, school, etc., the longer the relationship tends to last.
 
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Yep. She almost convinced me to go to Oxford instead of Tallahassee. Her brother ended up being my roommate in Los Angeles.
Ah the halcyon days of our youth, and the road not taken.
I’m sure she had her way with you, an innocent young lad from Alabama.
😎😜
 
Intriguing plot twist. Is she now your sister in law?
She is not. I am not sure what she is up to these days; I believe she is a stay-at-home mother still living in Alabama.

My sister-in-law has black hair, no dog, and a few degrees from Cal State and the UC.
 
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Ah the halcyon days of our youth, and the road not taken.
I’m sure she had her way with you, an innocent young lad from Alabama.
😎😜
She certainly did, as the older and, as she would have told you with a great degree of pride, much more worldly of the two of us. Yet, I looked down that road as far as I could and <sigh> chose the other. And that has made all the difference…
 
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Damn, sorry I missed this. Yes, there is a correlation, but it's complicated. The more powerful models include location/setting as a coefficient in multiple regression equations or multilevel analyses. Generally, the more the setting includes either an external expectation of success, e.g., church or an arranged marriage, or more intensive/persistent proximity, e.g., workplaces, school, etc., the longer the relationship tends to last.
So, what if it was simply the sex was great?
 
Sexual satisfaction is a mixed, weak predictor of relationship persistence. In my couples therapy work, I describe it as the barometer of the relationship, as it tends to be an early, sensitive indicator of communication and intimacy problems. Succinctly, bad sex can definitely ruin a relationship, but good sex can not save one.
 
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