The results of an Australian study on predicting which relationships are good for the long haul have come up with the rather unsurprising finding: choose someone who is quite a lot like you. Similar age, similar smoking habits, similar attitudes to having kids, similar attitudes to money and work. Surprisingly, education levels, drinking habits and religion seemed to be of less importance.

So, if you feel you need a bit of disaster in your life (which strangely enough we all seem to need every now and then), choose someone who is 20 years older than you are, plans to live off you entirely, smokes like a chimney, and looks at your kids as if they’re bundles of nuclear waste. I’m not being serious, but, hey, people seem to do this all the time, and then expect things to work

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