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How To Make A Marriage Work

...... Choosing an Appropriate Partner:
In principle, choosing the right partner may be the single most important element of achieving a successful marriage, although it is no guarantee, and certainly not on its own (DeAngelis, 2001). In that regard, there are two principle measures of who the right person is for any particular individual. First, (and without suggesting that either is necessarily more important than the other), prospective partners should be physically attracted to one another and sexually compatible; second, they should be at least as compatible in every other respect as they are with their closest same-sex (or other platonic) friends (Branden, 2004)
Physical and sexual chemistry is important, but all too often, people choose candidates for marital partners heavily swayed by those factors where other crucial elements are missing. On the other end of the spectrum, sometimes people choose a marital partner despite insufficient physical attraction and sexual chemistry because they believe (incorrectly) that is shallow to consider those factors necessary in a potential partner (Branden, 2004). Another way of characterizing the importance of both elements is to suggest that there is a minimum degree of physical and sexual attraction that is necessary for happy long-term marriage and