Comments on: Dating Deal Breakers

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:01:23 +0000

Apologies for the late comment but I’m only just catching up with my Google reader after moving to Australia (I’m sure you weren’t waiting for me to pop up, but it’s nice to be polite).

Anyway, having listed all these things you know that you will end up with someone who is all of those. My mother always said she would never marry a civil servant called William or move back to Ireland. Totally happened. I always said I would never go out with an accountant or anyone with less hair than me and now I live down under with the very same.

Perhaps this says more about my family than your predicament. Ho hum.

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By: Enriko

Enriko — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:54:51 +0000

Wow Craig. I agree with you ONE HUNDRED PERCENT on this list.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:46:30 +0000

Glad I could help! I’ll have to save my comment for when I’m home later and can get on your site! Damn company firewall.

By: Avitable

Avitable — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:29:33 +0000

Craig, you inspired me to write my own post about my dating deal breakers. Well done!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:48:35 +0000

Smoking is a big turn off for me as well. It seems to me to be an indicator of poor judgment and susceptibility to peer pressure. I also just hate the smell of cigarettes.

I like intelligent men. However, having one or more college degrees is not necessarily an indicator of intelligence, sometimes it can just lead to overconfidence. I don’t use a college degree as screening criteria. I prefer to make my own assessment. It would also be hypocritical since I am an autodidact.

I find an appropriate level of ambition attractive. If someone is stuck in a dead end job with no aspiration toward improving their situation then that is a big turn-off.

A big age difference could put me off wanting to date someone. I would prefer to be in a relationship with someone who is in the same stage of life as me.

Untreated mental illness, drug abuse, and criminal behavior would be deal breakers for me. I am also not interested in jerks.

A lack of initial attraction can be a deal breaker for me. I probably should give people more of a first chance. I am still new to the dating scene so I don’t have much experience. I think that I may worry too much about avoiding bad relationships than being open to a relationship.

The first guy I fell for was pretty amazing. I just want to feel like I did about him. I was swept away in a river of attraction. I don’t want to settle for less.

By: Îž_Heather

Îž_Heather — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:48:18 +0000

Well according to urban dictionary I’m “outgoing,happy,loud,fun,down to earth But: can be bitchy,rude,ignorant” and use household objects in unusual ways.

Dating deal-breakers — presumably dating at all would be a deal-breaker at this point, but thinking back to my theoretically dating days (I don’t think I ever dated anyone; it was easier to just jump into a long-term relationship. Though TwoPi and I did go out once early on and it was so awkward that it must have been a date.). For me, knowing my own neuroses, the only absolute deal-breaker would have been drugs. Oh, and being a not-nice person. There’s other stuff that doesn’t matter in friends but would have required negotiation for a relationship (stuff like having a driver’s license would fall into that category).

By: Tam

Tam — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:46:03 +0000

Bernd: Ultimate being? How cool is that. I’m jealous. I’m just psychopathic.

By: Bernd

Bernd — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:06 +0000

should I add a t to my name?
“Berndt is the ultimate being. Although no-one knows anything about him except his mysterious name.”

But that would probably get boring pretty fast.

By: Tam

Tam — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:25:30 +0000

You guys are sick, seriously. LOL (That’s why I love you by the way.)