Carmen wrote:
|| Hi Bob,
||
|| Ada Ma:
|| Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise
||||| and whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is
||||| that
||||| she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P
||
|| Carmen:
|||| Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
|||| looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements
|||| too.
||
|| Bob M.:
||| That might not be too bad of a requirement. Heck, people have all
||| kinds of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality,
||| etc.),
||| so I don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad. I knew one guy
||| who
||| said (his words), "I could never marry a woman with small
||| [breasts]." (The
||| latter changed from the real wording.) At least having a
||| "requirement" of
||| something that's important -- like diet -- is better than putting
||| arbitrary requirements on a mate. I used to read personals and be
||| intrigued by one, then find out that she wanted someone four inches
||| taller than me (even though she's 4 inches shorter than me) or wants
||| black
||| haired men.
||
|| Diet can be far too transient in nature, and IMO therein lies the
|| danger. Cubit is pushing 50 and still unmarried. He's stated the
|| desire to date, but placing that sort of requirement on prospective
|| partners looks an awful lot like putting up barbed wire around the
|| "Welcome" mat. Is the food someone eats important enough to outweigh
|| compatibility in other areas? Or is it a subconscious way to avoid
|| commitment? It could go either way.
Cubit's pushing 50? I thought he was a youngster!
I'd rather be single than be in a bad marriage 🙂
And single ain't so bad when you can find plenty of nice ladies to date!!
But I'd rather be married to a great lady than to be constantly dating lots
of different ones, trying to figure out what makes each of them tick.