[ismail]

Sounds like a case of the Marriage problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

[gamechangr]

I love it!

I sure didn't mean to sound hard, but sometimes the way through a problem is the way around the problem. Kind of like this illustrates.

[slipwalker]

my 2cents: to use this strategy, don't forget to have an iron-clad pre-nup, first.