i do not think you can think of many inventions made up by married men.

nikola tesla

wolves and gibbons partner for life. so do swans and 90 percent of other birds. the other 10 percent do not. we are running at about fifty percent for marriages in our species. I think the same is true with those marriages that last, so we are down to 25 percent. every seven years of marriage another test of its strength seems to come from nowhere and push the boundaries of a couples strength. a test of time and persistence and people ability to choose a way of life that challenges the current statistic. within the marriages that persist there are a myriad of ways couples endure with no one-size fits all way.

in terms of a marriages ability to stifle invention i am not so certain. i think of steve jobs and although he might not be the inventor of all the great products we interact with each day he was a main part of the process that created them. an inventor could be the person with the idea, but the work behind and beyond those inventions must take some credit in the world we are standing in today. it is amazing the speed and advancement of inventions today. on each others shoulders we stand, creating a more and more complex combinations of tools that allow us to further shape our world. now we all can be artist and architects, kings and criminals in multiple spaces at once. the cyber world has opened a separate world where one can don a new identity and amass powers of social influence unforseen a few years ago. faster and faster we go.

but the marriage persist. the old theory of finding a partner for life and growing old with them. this sort of journey of sorts where a shared space, kids, conflicts and resolutions all reside. not for everyone obviously but something that can fit for some. it works for the majority of birds. another creature of the past that through generations have decided to stay together, to invent and persist as pairs fluttering around on this fiery ball. like the moon and the earth dance together, couples can work and help and influence one another along the journey we call life.