I may be too contemplative as of late. Here's one of those questions that asks yourself which kind of mate you might want to have. Would you rather have a significant other whom you love and loves you but is: a) your arch enemy, or b) your super hero partner. Here are some of the "stipulations" of this decision though if you will. A super hero partner will not do all the work for you. It's a partnership after all. You essentially know each others''s strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, and have an almost complete knowledge of how the other thinks. You can go off together to save kittens or China from the dastardly evil bad guy and come home to a fireplace with some popcorn. Wonderfully traditional and romantic with a taste of the fantastic, it's a very tasteful and healthy decision. Or... Your arch enemy won't actually kill you. You're kind of like Superman and Lex Luthor: eternal nemesi to the end, but don't kill each other really. You constantly make plans to bring about each others' downfall from far away only to have them completely thwarted by the discovery of some new ability, skill or superpower. You love each other, but there is still the desire to attempt to be the better bad guy and make the other bow before your power. This leaves the relationship filled with interesting surprises and fulfills the firey, sadomasochist in each of us. And you can come home to regale the other in stories of how you took over some third world country and turned the citizens into lima beans with a new super uber zap ray. You can probably figure out which one I like more as I'm the kind of guy who likes to wrastle girls and make them cry. Maybe I didn't put enough thought into this whole thing, but it's after midnight and I was fed so guess what? I'm turning into a gremlin and it's time for me to jump into a pool and multiply.