Last evening, I haywired and bought 2 peasant tops (for what Yoyo calls the Babooshka Russian gypsy look). One of these tops needs lots of ironing and it already broke one of my cardinal rules for purchasing clothes, ie. to buy wrinkle-free clothes. Another rule is to buy clothes that don't need drycleaning. Sometimes I'll try to wing it by buying dryclean-only clothing and pretending it's not, chuck it in the washing machine and cross my fingers. Normally there is a 50-50% chance of the dryclean-only clothing surviving the identity crisis and converting to the machine-wash category.

Finding a soulmate is somewhat like that. You get dryclean-only people and wish they're machine-washable. If you value them enough, you won't try to change them by chucking them in the washing machine. Instead you should think that dryclean-only is what you want.