How do you differ from your partner (or partners, past or present) in
background, talents, physical abilities, personality and temperament, and how
do these differences make your relationship stronger?  (If you have never had
a partner, substitute best friend, or think about the relationships of your
parents or friends).
        Do you think you would be happier together if you were more similar,
or are there similarities which cause problems?

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Well, I will take a stab at this one.  Jim and I are about the most disparate
partners I know.  He is bigger and twice as strong, which is helpful for both
of us in many ways.  He carries home all the library books (which I read to
him).  I can get my hand into small places to pull things out.  It is nice
to wear different sizes, because when people give us used clothing it often
fits one or the other of us.  He is much more tolerant of cold and will do
outside work in the winter. I am much more tolerant of sun, and can work
outside in the summer (more skin pigmentation).
        Jim is right-brained, meaning he is very good at mechanical things.
He can visualize the plumbing, even upside down.  He works on tasks that
require keeping everything in your head at one time.  He has an excellent
sense of pitch.  I have a good sense of rhythm.  We sang in a church choir
one year when they were short of tenors, and I would know when to come in,
and the approximate right note, and he would correct my pitch.  Rhythm is
left-brained because it is related to sequences and order.  I can do things
that are in a straight line rather than a network.  I am good at writing and
write letters for Jim while he is fixing the plumbing.
        I will leave personality differences for later.

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