There's no reason -- except for our cultural expectations/preconcceptions -- that we can't have really romantic board-of-director's meetings.
No, it's this bizarro-world idea that love-n-marriage should just kind of magically evolve and persist without any discussion or planning or negotiation that's the epic fail. I suspect.
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." -- Frank Herbert