Of course it didn't work. How could it? You can't have *two* squishy deep-feeling Romantics each in a hard splintery cynic shell, sensitive but proud, inconstant, untrusting, each unable (or unwilling, which amounts to the same thing) to say what they mean, to the depths, before the other does, both playing opposite-of-Chicken and thus ensuring that both lose. Life's hard enough without trying to go through it with someone with whom you constantly create destructive wave interference. Complement is always better, by definition.

But, woo-ee, those constructive interferences.