It's so funny how we have whole sectors of our brains partitioned off for stuff like this.
My Dad had a song when I was a kid:
A man without a woman is like a ship without a sail, a boat without a rudder, A fish without a tail... A man without a woman, is like a wreck upon the sand, But if there's one thing worse in this universe, That's a woman without a man!
I have no idea where he got it or who wrote it (maybe he did!)