Somebody posed this question to me just the other day:

"So, which is worse? Meeting the right person at the wrong time, or meeting the wrong person at the right time?"

That question kind of caught me a little off-guard. It was something I didn't really expect to be coming from the person at such a setting.

After some deep thought, I thought of the former as a worse scenario.

Timing does really play a very crucial role in relationships. Some of us may say compatibility, and that includes common values, physical attributes and background etc is paramount to a good and lasting relationship but has anyone of us thought of this simple factor of timing?

About meeting the person at the right time when it kind of over-rides all other seemingly important factors?

Of course, meeting the wrong person at the right time can sound equally worse.

Many failed relationships, and even marriages can take their roots in that.

It's a sticky situation that even the most intelligent find difficulty in getting out of if they are caught in it.