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June 30, 2008

Get Real with Yourself to Find a Real Partner

Filed under: advice

Everyone is looking for their perfect match partner, the one that will make them “complete”. Unfortunately “perfect match” and “making complete” aren’t ways to identify who the right candidates are. In order to find your perfect match, you first have to get real with the kind of person you are looking for and how you see them fitting into your life. It might take you a couple of hours to get to the bottom of what your ideal partner should be like, but consider this an investment because a couple of hours soul searching now could save you a lot of wasted dates going out with the wrong kind of people.
Find some time when you are guaranteed not to be interrupted. Take the phone off the hook, tell friends and family members who may call around that you’re busy, buy a bottle of wine and run a bubble bath if that’s what it takes to get you in a romantic mood, then pick and pen and notepad and you’re all ready to get started.
Write a list of attributes you usually find attractive in potential dates, both physical and non-physical. You don’t need to worry about ordering these for now, just make sure you have a note of things you notice when you’re out for a night on the town.
Next make a list of things that you really can’t stand. Perhaps you hate guys with chat-up lines, or those who smoke. Maybe you prefer the non-tactile to the tactile. Again, this list should be physical and non-physical things that turn you off.
Now here comes the tricky part. What are you looking for in a perfect partner? What kind of person would your perfect match be? Would they be employed for example? Would they own a car? What about children – how do you feel about that issue? What about education? What about personality? Friends? Activities and interests? All of these things make up a rounded person, and you need to think about what kind of rounded person will fit right with you.
Lastly, and probably most importantly, the deal breakers. Supposing you’ve met someone who fits into all of your other criteria, but then they drop a bombshell on you and that’s the end of the relationship. Consider what things are so important to you that you would overlook everything else because of this one (or more) issue. This could include already married, criminal record, reputation of cheating, caught out on a lie, religion, political opinion, weight/health problem – whatever it is that you think you couldn’t overlook despite everything else being perfect, this is the list to put it on. If you meet someone, this is the first list you need to consider because otherwise you risk investing a lot of time and emotion into a relationship that’s dead in the water before it begins.
So there you go, now you know how to identify your perfect match. You use the perfect partner list in order to find the right type of person, the deal breaker list to narrow down the field, then your attractive/turn offs list to bring you even closer to the partner of your dreams. There, that wasn’t too bad was it?

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Happy dating!






















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