Mates develop interdependence as their relationship lengthens. The longer the mateship, the deeper it becomes. In long mateships, the mates develop a psychic empathy that approaches the one-mind, two-body communion of identical twins. The partners become so alike in disposition, preference and perception that each can act and decide in the other"s place with little difference in result. This similarity is both psychological and neurological. For example, the more a person uses a talent, the better the person becomes with it. The mate-empathy link has an analogous effect on a person"s signature. The longer a person stays mated, the more adapted the person"s frequencies become to the other person"s. The neurons in the prefrontal lobes grow new dendrites to help the mates receive each other"s
