Again, I come back to pointing to my own marriage as a good example of how a relationship can last over a very long term w/o the benefit of being "soulmates", or even moderately compatible
Unless you count being two hard-headed Scots-Irish types, too stubborn to give it up & let anybody that said it wouldn't last be right...

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