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 <description>&lt;p&gt;When I look at married couples, part of me wants to get married again so I can apply all that I&#039;m learning from observing them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m convinced happily-ever-after is not only achievable, but pretty well bankable if — having chosen your beloved carefully — you let synergy do its thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The principle of synergy — two people working together to create more than two people could achieve working independently — applies perfectly to coupledom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet I see so few couples actually benefiting from it, as they mostly don&#039;t seem to work together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see tremendous opportunity for couples to make plans for themselves and to achieve great things together financially, socially, career-wise, as parents and friends. They could so easily decide between them how they want to live their lives and talk about how they will make their dreams come true together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But they don&#039;t. Most couples I encounter are dissatisfied with their lot as individuals and as members of a married couple. They concentrate on the things that niggle them and tend not to stand back and look at what they have together and appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have yet to meet a couple who could say how they were doing according to their plans, dreams, and aspirations as they&#039;ve never spoken to each other to establish what they are, much less talked about how and when they expected to reach them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;OK, so maybe that&#039;s not the best reason to get married, but if I do ever marry again, I expect synergy will play a role in its success.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Karen Morath</dc:creator>
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