As much as the thought of dating someone solely for how they make you feel sounds romantic, it doesn’t work in reality.
Yes, you should want to date someone that makes you feel good.
But when you are thinking about someone to date for the long term, that person’s income level is highly important.
It gives you insight into the person’s relationship with money and their ambition.
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Being picky and having high standards is the most damaging when you are unrealistic about your own value in the dating landscape.
This is where people have too high of an opinion of themselves.
They develop such a high sense of self that they expect the same unrealistic qualities in a significant other.
Today, we live in a politically correct world where people are constantly being told that they are of high value in physical appearance, character, and accomplishments.
Dating is harder for men with respect to choice, as women have an abundance of men pursuing them in comparison to men.
Given the traditional roles that men and women play in dating, men are usually the ones who do the approaching and asking out.
As a result, she is in a position to pick and choose who she wants to date.
Men, on the other hand, risk rejection in doing the lion’s share of the approaching.
There are deep-rooted issues he has with emotional attachment.
He didn’t learn what it was like to develop strong emotional bonds with people as he was growing up.
This has resulted in him being avoidant as an adult.
He deliberately eschews opening himself up emotionally and developing strong emotional bonds with people.
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Political views are usually connected to lifestyle.
Therefore, it isn’t simply his political views but how those shape how he lives his life and what he believes that you have to consider.
It’s tempting to ignore the differing political views when there are other interests you both share that are similar.
When you establish a shared connection with him in other areas, such as music, pop culture, history, education, profession, etc., it’s tempting to believe that the differing political views aren’t such a big deal.
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