Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs are no longer a reliable exit strategy with capital markets tanking and buyers wary.

The rooms downstairs were cottoned, the doors re-hung, and a counter put in the record office.

Come, come, my good shepherds, our flocks we must shear, In your holy-day suits, with your lasses appear; The happiest of folk, are the giltless and free And who are so giltless so happy as we ?

But our culture has reinforced the belief that a good marriage just happens, and if it doesn't, you should simply cut your losses and move on to the next partner. After all, that's what we see in the movies.