Blog 3878 – 07.05.2026

Hoping For A Good Match

I saw this baby picture and joke on Social Media yesterday and it got me thinking. A dear friend recently shared a fact about a pact that she and her best girl friend made hoping to help orchestrate a perfect match between her granddaughter and her friend’s grandson. They made the pact when their grandchildren were babies. Parents, grandparents, family and friends attending a wedding all hope that the happy couple have will have a long and happy marriage, that they have found a good match. 

What makes a good match? Why do so many seemingly good matches end in divorce? These are questions even A.I. might struggle to answer. I googled, “What makes a good match?” And this is how A.I. responded.

“Get along well,

Have aligned values,

Compliment each other’s personalities”

Sounds good, but to quote Tina Turner’s famous hit song question, “What’s love got to do with it?” Quite a lot, I think, for nothing more than love helps us to see the other and ourselves in our best light. To paraphrase a Bible verse, “Love covers a multitude of short comings.” I cannot imagine living with someone or they with me, happily, let alone ever after, without love. The childhood rhyme goes, “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes (insert your name here) with a baby carriage.”

Sadly, too many relationships end up like Ms. Turner’s song or the attached Broken Merry Go Round song:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JlMFPlqfYX481W78kwnHpARWK7cRuOWD/view?usp=drivesdk

Broken Merry Go Round 

And yet the romantic in us still hopes for “a match made in heaven” for our selves, our children and our grandchildren, our friends and even those not at the top of our list.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White