What is the threshold of acceptance?

I was in 1U today - a typical weekend with plenty of people (mostly couples). You see matching couples, you see odd couples, you see weird couples, overweight couples, ah beng-lian couples, but the weirdest most is they do actually couple.

Perhaps the ladies are trying hard to overprice themselves, after all Feb 14 is the next event of the year. They act, react, seduce, re-seduce and over-seduce till they are priced out for this Valentine. After all, ask any ladies, no one wants to be laugh being at home.

But honestly, if not for the valentine, what else do we need a relationship for? The rule of the thumb says “do not love unless you are prepared to get hurt”. Living together with someone not of your genes is as tough as mount kinabalu. You bang your head 10 times on it but it will not shake a little, not at all.

My previous boss noticed that I have not had a relationship for a year plus, one day asked me to the room. He said, “The process of growing up requires you to have a girl friend. How well you manage her will reflect on how well you manage your job”.
I replied, “I feel comfortable with myself and can’t take the quarrellings in relationship”.
“Take a girl who does not quarrel” he told almost spontaneously
“Isn’t that a stupid girl?”, I replied.
We had a good laugh but this is the fact of life. Compromising differences is never easy, let alone living with someone not too similar to you.

Question now is “How much of differences can you take in between the both of you?”

Like I said, I was in the mall this morning and I saw 3 couples that are different. Differences here is not about me judging them and announce them incompatible… No!, cause if Mr. Cupid wants to hit hard on them, I am no one to object.

But I can’t figure why does a white guy (Englishman) falls for a darker skin lady (vise versa). The next time you go to Thailand, this is a typical explainable scenario because one pays the money, the other prostitute for money (though not all cases). But the fact that this is Malaysia and cases like these are rare. So, could there be a real chemistry or is it that love is blind after all?

Skin color aside, we look into characters, attitudes, upbringing, interest, preferences in food, lifestyle, etc… how much of differences can we actually accept in our future-spouse? Tell me.

On the other end, I have heard love stories that tells in a different tale. Some people say, “when you love someone, it put you together and settle the differences in between”, some say, “love is about acceptance”, others say, “opposite attracts, just like magnets do”, hmmmm, some even say, “when two share different of interest, they finish up the whole meal nicely without leftovers”. True, even some acknowledge that, “no one is perfect and life is too short to complain; minus the opposites, find the similarity and we are on the way to the top”. Perhaps….well perhaps, Shakespeare was right that follies do not know the fouls they commit when they are in love.

This are general statements, but those who have fallen in love before, tell me your opinion “how much of differences can you take on your partner”

Well, a relationship is beyond a sperm and ovum getting known to each other, is about two genes molding an interest. So, tell me.