What Is an Expected Level of Marital Compatibility?

 

Question:   I guess my main question was, what degree of compatibility would you expect to have to consider it a great marriage and what degree of incompatibility leads to ruination?

 

Richard:    That is very difficult to quantify. Some people are more sensitive to conflict than others. A little bit can be more than they can bear. Where others can just enjoy just staying in there and slugging it out toe to toe and just have a grand time making up each time. So that’s such an individual kind of question, I don’t think I can give a universal answer to it. Even if I had a universal answer, I don’t think I could give it.

 

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