The human experience is a strange one most of the time. We all get used to our equations; our comfort zones. When these change just slightly it can geatly change the outcome. Assumptions and lack of communication also has a great affect on outcomes. When it's only two people involved and you know each other fairly well, then the equation is pretty simple. The outcomes are predictable and become clearer and clearer. But we all know nothing is that easy. Because these too people are products of equations and their influences, some of which are evident like fingerprints, others hidden well below the surface. These products are also shaped by their environments, like trees shaped to capture sunlight.
If you look backwards you must also look foward. If these equations from the past have shaped these two people, then these influences will also shape the future. The beauty of math is that it is a constant never changing equation. Nothing about dealing with people is constant, we all bring our diversity to the equation and this is manipulated by the factors involved. There are no rules, only variables. I prefer the challenge of the unexpected.
Note: an obandoned train wreck of thought, that I came back to
