I’m a big believer in the engineer (logical) and helping professions (emotional). match. If you look at the category of ‘software developers’ and add up all the helping professions like teachers and nurses and others it is the #1 pairing. This software engineer has been married to his teacher wife for 29 years and going strong …
FYI virtually all of the professions have elementary teacher within top 3 professions... probably over-represented in data set since it would be reported through government channels more often.
No opinion on your main point though - you may be right :)
Definitely with you on this one. Not married (yet), but my partner is a nurse (by education) and I am a data scientist. Among her (ex-)colleagues, the proportion of marrying to engineers/IT guys/... was significant.
Totally with you. I can't imagine being married to "another one of me" - either there's not much you add to each other, or you're competing.
Like you, my wife doesn't just work in another field but is very much more driven by care and emotion and logic and "justice" that matter to me. Sometimes this makes it hard to co-exist since we literally look at problems from a totally different perspective, but the resolution of that conflict (or figuring out how to coexist despite the difference) is incredibly enriching, I'd not get to grow this way with someone else.
