Iroh shakes his head. "Happy people never sound silly to me. And even if you had seen a matchmaker, it's different when you choose someone yourself."

Being from the upper class of the Fire Nation, Iroh learned to tell who was married only for politics and who loved one another. Even those rare few who started as the former and ended up in the latter. Even when couples were restrained in public, there was affection in their every gesture when they were in love.