As you may glance from the examples above, life can be an amazingly joyful as well as painful experience. It really depends on our innate talents, learned skills, internal (belief, intellect, emotions, soul) & external (interactions, behaviors, relatedness) resource management, and taking actions, very specific, goal directed actions toward experiencing more joy than pain. A major part of that experience resides in, stems from, is predicated upon, is entangled with, and resolves in romantic, intimate partnerships.