[matwood]

A comedian once said "Find someone you can tolerate and marry them." The point being that we as society have put marriage expectations so high that they are impossible for most people to meet. True love, the one, etc... are all things that sound great, but just rarely, if ever happen. It will not always be rainbows and butterflies and there will be times where it is a lot of work. Knowing that going in will lead to an attitude of working together.

[nashashmi]

It is actually true. When you pick someone, what you are really doing is picking a set of problems that you want to live with, not a set of happiness that you want to live with it.

Happiness comes and goes. Problems and being able to deal with them always stay.

[Digit-Al]

There's a line in a song: It's not alway's rainbows and butterflies; it's compromising that moves us along.

[matwood]

Maroon5. I probably subconsciously used part of that line in my comment.