Everyone tells me that it is easy to understand that my beloved and I are so much in love after so many years together because we spend so little time with each other. As a matter of fact, every fortnight we spend about four days together and ten days apart. But no-one takes seriously my suggestion that every marriage contract should specify such a schedule—so many days together and so many days apart per week, month, or year. They think it is only a joke. So many people around the globe now live apart and see each other on a regular basis, though. And their numbers are growing, especially in the developed world, where both housing and transportation have long been cheap enough for such lifestyles. Some couples happily live on different continents, too. Who knows, the growing variety of schedules of being together and apart may even save the troubled institution of marriage.