In Literature and In Life, Men and Women Still Want Different Things in a Mate

Punk pioneer Johnny Rotten once sneered, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” And that’s how you may feel reading a New Yorker piece about the ideal marriage according to novels, wherein novelist Adelle Waldman lays bare the depressing reality that since forever and still now, women want an intellectual equal…
You're Probably Thinking About Soul Mates All Wrong
Did you know that if love is a motivational poster — and obviously it is — then how you imagine that poster is pretty key, whether it's a cat hanging in there or soul mate scrawled in cursive on a scroll of destiny-weathered papyrus? And that if you believe in the latter, you're probably kinda screwed? Because maybe.
What If Everyone Had Only One True Soul Mate, a Random Person Somewhere in the World?
What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? -Benjamin Staffin
But with the threat of dying alone looming so imminently, society could restructure to try to enable as much eye contact as possible. We could put together massive conveyer belts to move lines of…AskMen? Uh, That's Ok.
According to that window into the male soul, AskMen's "Great Male Survey," the rascals are closet romantics: 36% of men polled believe in soul mates, 75% are pro-marriage while only 10% consider signing a prenup "very important." Awww! [AskMen]
