How to Spot a Couple Who Deserve Each Other

You can spot them across a restaurant. They are sharing dessert and disputing the year of a vacation.

The people we love most are never the glossy ones in the photographs. They are the two who interrupt each other to tell the same story better.

Ten reliable signs

1. They argue over who was driving in a story from 1998.
2. One orders salad, then eats the other one’s fries.
3. They have a shared enemy, and it is a neighbor’s leaf blower.
4. They disagree on the temperature and on nothing else that matters.
5. One tells the joke. The other delivers the ending.
6. Neither has ever found the car in a parking lot alone.
7. They bring two opinions on the same mattress to the store.
8. They have a code word for leaving a party.
9. They say I told you so with real tenderness.
10. They laugh at the exact same wrong moment.

Why it matters

Nobody tells you this at the wedding, but you are not looking for a person with no flaws. You are looking for someone whose flaws fit neatly around yours, like a very odd jigsaw puzzle.

That is the whole idea behind Crazy Meets Crazy. If you recognize yourselves in this list, you have our congratulations and our sympathy. The hats are over here.