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I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.