Significant Other

I'd been arguing with my sister about what love is. I won pretty much by saying that love is "giving other people enough power to destroy you; and hoping them not to do so". I made an example how a mother taught her daughter how to cook--how to handle knife; trusting the little kid not to stab her someday in the future.

This is pretty much how people with huge chunk of responsibilities do this, or at least, that's how two of distinguished professors in my university have it. Although both of them belong to the same faculty, the two didn't take exactly the same approach to the technology they're developing. They didn't rather different focus in researches though they work together in (fewer) other projects.

And here's the good part:
0. they love each other,
1. they get credit for the work they'd done personally (or with their respective research group),
2. they get credit for their spouse's work--for being a supportive figure (while not being directly related to the work),
3. they are referred on citation references in entries that are similar (that they share family name); more citations!
4. they have enough power to outwit their spouse's work--yet at this point it refers back to point (2).

Damn, that's just uber!

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My significant other will surely have more than enough power to end my life, anytime she desires so.