Should you date a mathematician?

<p><pre><code> Their wives complain that their husbands didn’t notice that the furniture was repossessed or that their old cat died and was replaced by a dog. My third husband was like that. At some point in my marriage I discovered that he didn’t know the color of my eyes. He didn’t know the color of his eyes either. He wasn’t color-blind: he was just indifferent. I asked him as a personal favor to learn the color of my eyes by heart and he did. My friend Irene even suggested creating a support group for the wives of such mathematicians. </code></pre> I&#x27;m really bad when it comes to this sort of thing. My partner often quizzes me on things that were apparently &quot;discussed&quot; which I actually didn&#x27;t hear because I was engrossed in something else.<p>I&#x27;m generally very apathetic which makes my partner question whether I love them sometimes. It <i>is</i> peculiar why we should love.

My brother is a dentist. At four he leaves his office and goes home.<p>I have worked with software development for quite some time. The nasty thing is that lately it has become so easy to connect to work, fire up the dev-environment from home on evenings and weekends to continue tinker with that piece of code or that nasty bug.<p>Imagine having a job where your problem is not constrained to a person that has to be in your vicinity for you to work or a job where you cannot at least fake that you have problems with your internet connection :)<p>You cannot easily unscrew your head at the end of the day and it is only too natural to continue to linger in your head in problem-solving mode. Imagine doing this for the greater part of your life and you may end up with exactly the problems described here.

Thanks to mobile phones we can at least pace around and talk to ourselves without appearing crazy.

_Should you date a mathematician or not?<p>_Yes.