# How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 1

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Tim Urban]]
- Full Title: How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 1
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html

## Highlights
- Thinking about how overwhelmingly important it is to pick the right life partner is like thinking about how huge the universe really is or how terrifying death really is—it’s too intense to internalize the reality of it, so we just don’t think about it that hard and remain in slight denial about the magnitude of the situation.