Without intervention, the human body usually headed for divorce, in this analogy, anyway.
Reminds me of http://www.theonion.com/articles/sociologist-considers-own-b... .
Re:A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
by timmyelliot on Saturday March 29, 2014 @03:53PM
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I think it was a case of bad paraphrasing. Another source doesn't make Sinclair sound as odd: "Much like a married couple talks to each other when they're newly married but then they stop communicating after about 20 years, at least in some cases."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/scientists-develop-ant...
Yep, this struck me as an odd analogy!
I think, it's not really that communication breaks down, it is more that you don't need to communicate at all because you know the other person so well by now. Then divorce happens because you don't like what you know or you realize your spouse isn't what you wanted, or the marriage becomes stronger because you anticipate your partners needs/actions without having to communicate. So yeah, the analogy is not really right.
Re:A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
by DigitalJack on Saturday March 29, 2014 @03:56PM
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While it is true that you learn your spouse that well, it will be long before that when you realize if don't like them.
However when you don't communicate, your lives get out of sync. At some point this has gone on long enough, the changes we go through (called life) cause people to become strangers again.
It's like two inertial systems. They drift, differently, over time and this difference accumulates. Communication between the two inertial units can synchronize them. Or a trusted third party (GPS) can give them both a course correction.
- Totally off topic though but I think he's describing a couple heading to divorce. Nearly all successful marriages move in the exact opposite direction.