1st thing has to be appearance. If I dont look at them and think "yep, exactly my type", its just wasting everyone's time. 2nd thing has to be their mind and their sense of humour. There has to be some compatiblity. Sometimes, it takes time to fully discover this aspect. 3rd aspect has to be personality. Someone who revels in being a "bad ass" or a "bitch".. pathetic. They need to get a life, one without me in it. 4th - character. What sort of person am I dealing with? 5th- compatibility. This is the very very rare one, IMO. The idea that someone is perfect for me. And vice versa. I can have fun with someone who's hot, esp if they are fun. But I really wont waste my time on indepth shit if someone has got serious flaws. Over my life, I reckon I've come across only a couple or so of girls I'd describe as potentially perfect for me, that meet the 5th criteria.
So what would u rather? Economise on plane fares. Or economise on life? You can always buy another plane ticket, not so with a life. Just my opinion : )
If i met someone who could keep me interested, talked my interest..ok looking..sense of humour.. Cute bum, and a good walk...then, liked the same music as me...we are doing good ...but! Tbh... Im not looking, so he would have to take me by surprise
Athletic chicks who can wear a wifebeater well or piece together something cool and whorish out of a thriftstore do it for me. "Hot japanese chicks with a leg made of weed" will do as well, even if I don't partake. Finally, Melanie Moon. Nuff said.
Very true . Considering my current situation/lifestyle choice, I don't think I'd fly around for someone.
A few people mentioned appearance and how a person dresses. If I looked for that my new BF woulda bin off looking for someone else after the first few times I first met him. He did say once you walk toward me if you don't like what you see just turn and walk away. We met on a dating site so lots of phone calls and texting first. Because he said that I asked him to meet me where he would stand a distance from where I would turn a corner and as I got closer and stopped I thought about what he said. He is a bit rough looking. Wore jeans and a T shirt. I kept coming. The next time we met up he had the same kind of stuff with crap all over his jeans because he just got off work. He lays carpet and tile,,, what a mess on him. If I need him to go somewhere with me he stops at his house and changes. If we go to his friends places to help them on an old car he wears his work stuff because he might be playing in an engine or applying bondo or paint. SO, the other day I was at a second hand store and wasn't it just my luck, the cutest little pair of jeans with paint drops and paint smears all over them,,,, gonna make him wait a few seconds while I put them on if he shows up here with his work clothes, I CAN ADJUST! Hahahahaha. What I like about him is what I learned about him in our first few weeks yaking on the phone and texting and how he shows his heart on his shirt.
I noticed people mentioning appearance and dress too and not that anyone said it but I wanted to point out that that's not necessarily superficial because the first thing you're going to notice about a person is their appearance... I've mostly dated online though and while appearance still attracted me at first, I always got to read their profiles first too so I've always gone for the people into the abstract and quirky things. The complete weirdos.. cuz that's the people that interest me.
This isn't a dating site though. But I am still convinced I'll meet my match here. Half joking, half serious about that. "Eventually, soul mates meet, for they have the same hiding place"
And yet appearance could mean a guy's mom picks out his clothes. I like a man who isn't afraid of work. Isn't afraid of getting his hands dirty and can do an honest day while he is working,,, mind you I want him to let back some and let others do his work or find something a little less physical like his car business he had years ago. He is considering it because he loves working on cars, especially rebuilding old ones for people. That carpet work is a killer, it's heavy work and you can't mess up. I went as his helper one day and after we were done I said "Why would you like that work? It will kill ya." I read the profiles, one man showed a pic of himself 15 years younger and said he was working and had a house, turned out he was rooming IN a house with 4 other guys, was looking for work and ya, he had grey hair, not that there is anything wrong with that but his pic showed him in two tone shades and it looked really cool. He was also shorter then he claimed. BF said it as it is. He wasn't telling any lies and that was why when we agreed to meet he said walk away if you don't like. I think his honesty and lack of fear of finding no one with what he said in his profile is what struck me first.
I just realized that I am attracted to people who use paragraphs, correct punctuation, and proper spelling.