Discuss: Reasons for Being in a Long Term Relationship

[jeffreyab]

1. You live longer because if you have an accident someone is more likely to notice and help or nurse you back to health.

2. Two can live cheaper than one.

3. The company keeps your stress levels down, I assume a good match.

4. If you are male and want to pass on your genes and memes its the only way.

5. Someone to share those special moments of your life with.

6. Someone to dry the dishes after you wash them.

7. You can make their life better too and think better of yourself.

8. Money not spent on dating and dating services and other searched for companionship.

9. Less risk of carpal tunnel from staying up all night chatting on the net.

Comments

LMAO!

[marcy-italiano.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious.

OK - dude.
Don't do what my friend did, she made her list, and found *nobody* who checked off everything she had. Mind you, nobody ever will. LOL! (She then turned the list on ALL of her friends, and to make a long story short, she lives in England now.) You will not find someone who is PERFECT for you. She is still single, a good looking, smart, funny woman who self destructs in dating. You can't start with what you want, in my opinion, that's what you find along the way. You already know what kind of people you like, that's why you have the friends that you do.

Make your life bigger. If you don't find a guppie that you like in your fishbowl, find a bigger bowl. Find new things YOU will enjoy doing, make new friends, and see what happens. Oh, and like another friend I have, don't put targets on women's heads. LOL!

Beep beep beep... target in sight... dive bomb her!!!!! This person has found women that matches his "list" perfectly and forgets to look at the person. He also gets obsessive, or posessive very quickly. LOL! Yeah. He's still single and had given up on women. He's 33. Now that he's backing down, I'll bet you he meets someone nice. LOL!

Re: LMAO!

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

The Sarnia fishbowl is very limited and it costs money to make your fishbowl bigger.

I am trying but this is a great town for retirees and teens not so good for singles in between.

[very-lost-boy.livejournal.com]

You could always forget you're an "in-betweener" and go for the retirees and teens ;) Heh... maybe not.

I think that creating a list to quantify the personality of a potential significant other is ridiculous... Everyone has things that are very important for them to find in a partner, but it's far more pleasant to keep an open mind... The idea reminds me of what whatshisface said in On Equilibrium... reasoning everything we do really limits our potential.

Tendencies

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Its more a way of charting my tendencies.
You should not expect to meet all of them but they give you an idea of where to look to maximize your chances.

The older crowd is already trying to or has dated me.

The older you get the less you can rely on "attraction" or "chemistry."
It certainly has not worked for the last twenty odd years.

Re: LMAO!

[marcy-italiano.livejournal.com]

So, why stay in Sarnia?

Re: LMAO!

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Job security - it is very hard to go from a full time library job to a full time library job unless you are some kind of wunderkind, which I am not.

Family - my mother, one aunt with no family of her own and both my sisters with their families are here and that is most of my family.