It all comes down to the fact that I'm a schmuck, a big romantic schmuck. And I'm ok with that. I won't push it on anyone else it's my thing.
So while I sit here eating the Edible Arrangement Chad sent me. (Awesome gift, it's like getting a lovely flower arrangement but it's covered in chocolate!) I begin to muse about my relationship and others.
It has been brought up numerous time in my cohort that we psychologists seem to have a proclivity for the engineers. Out of the eleven of us, two of the girls are married/getting married to engineers and I myself am dating Chad who is getting his graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering. Some of our female professors are even married to engineers. haha it just seems to uncanny to be coincidence.
Ok so being the "digging bulldog" I am (thanks Mary), I wanted to see if there has been any research done on couples' careers that tend to go together. Maybe I've lost my edge but I couldn't find any.
So is our little cohort a fluke, I seem to recall some of my professors at Gonzaga being married to an engineer and a computer programmer. What would explain the trend?
Could is simply be a sort of opposite attract? But successful marriages are shown to be born out of similarities not differences. Chad and I are far more similar then we are different. Maybe our opposites just bring out the best in each other.
I think the best couples are like puzzle pieces, they are part of the same puzzle but they are different. It is those differences though that makes them fit together, unified.
