First, a personal note / soapbox. I take a keen interest in the decay of modern day relationships, and relationships in general, because I come from a 2-generations-divorced family and don't want to end up the same way. I have witnessed firsthand the bitterness and pain this causes between kids and their parents, as well as the emotional damage it does to parents but especially to their kids, and even though it has been over 18 years since my parents were divorced, the impacts of this event, psychologically and otherwise, affect me to this day. I gained a further interest in relationships and social psychology in high school, seeing what I perceived to be utterly futile and meaningless so-called relationships around me. How is it that two people can meet, claim to be in love in a couple of weeks, and be bitter enemies, all by the end of the month? What leads to a relationship succeeding, or failing? And most importantly, what things can I look for, can I do, to maximize the chan...