I never failed, I deliberately avoid it on philosophical grounds having seen what it did to my parents (made them into a pair of bitter dickweasels), to their married friends (see first entry), and my Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Caroline (ended in a bunch of arguments and a messy divorce that was bad for the kids). Only happy, stable couple I've ever encountered or even heard of, at least in the West (I have had my arguments countered by people from other cultures, so maybe men and women are more similar outside of America, I wouldn't know, I only ever lived in America) is two lesbians who were dating all through high school. Men and women are simply too different to form stable relationships. Like I said before, it's like deer and dogs.