Chaotic Harmony

What is a successful marriage? One where your spouse share the same views, opinions, background, and interests? Is a successful relation based upon how much one has in common with their spouse to the point of being twins? Or is it to portray the types of couples in the cartoons that speak and move in unison? Based upon keen observation, the similarities dim a relationship, dullness interests, and portrays a couple to be more of siblings, rather than a husband and wife. Instead of the humdrum relationship filled with familiarities, one couple has piqued my curiosity and served as a joyous form of entertainment for the past 17 years of my rather short life. Never before has a quiet man with a serious disposition and boy like attitude been paired up with a boisterously bold, short, woman filled with moxie and still seem to live together in a chaotic harmony. As contradictory as that is, my parent's personalities are in fact juxtapose of each other, yet has underlining similarities which moves these two opposites to attract, regardless of them coming from two different ways of life.

He was one of your typical jocks. My father growing up was center guard for his high school's football team, popular, staved in music as a drummer, and excelled in art. Born on the East coast my father was raised in a middle class family. After high school, my dad proceeded to study medicine in college, but a lack of study skills in high school provided to be a challenge to maintain straight A's in college.

Compared to my father, my mother came from a life very much contrapositive to his childhood. She is a first generation American born in New Mexico to a lower classed family. With her parents gone, My mother was often left in charge of taking care o...

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... revolved around making a better life for their kids and better then what they had offered to them, adding to the list of commons amounts the contrast. Even though their personalities differ, their system of believe match creating an anchor between the two. So is marriage based upon the similarities? The basis of a relationship yes, yet the differences is what makes a relationship fun, adventurous, and avoids the ordinary.My parents are a prime example of a successful, yet different couple that functions in a chaotic sort of harmony.

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