Originally posted by sleuth14
That's funny... most people say I'm too picky...
All I was saying was that it's rare to find someone who meets all my criteria. This last girl was one of them... and so I'm disappointed it didn't work out.
Maybe some of your criteria needs changing. Quite a while back, someone pointed out to me that I seemed to only be attracted to women who weren't interested, but I think a lot of that was because I had criteria which *always* resulted in someone who really wasn't compatible with me.
There was probably a bit of social climbing and ambition in me, then - I think I was always trying for someone who was unattainable, because it was challenging, and when I 'got there', it wasn't what I wanted anyway. I thought about this, and it occurred to me, I have VERY good friends I would never bother to establish any criteria for, so why would I regard women as some kind of prize to be won? I have *great* friends with which I disagree on major issues, who are way apart from me in age, culture, background, but for reasons I can't guess, I was setting myself up for failure by choosing a partner based on something else.
It's kind of like - if everything I'm doing so far hasn't worked out, then maybe what I am doing is messed up - I don't need to do MORE of it - I need to change what I am doing.
So I threw away my criteria. I'm VERY happy with the results. I've actually *never* been so happy.