what do you look for in your partner (externally). rank the following

China
November 11, 2008 7:53am CST
I am curious to see what you would look for in a potential relationship and see if they affect your decision to start a relationship. We should cast aside inner beauty or attributes but only rank those external measurable attributes. You can rank them in order of importance. a) personal wealth (job/car etc) b) family background c) looks d) height e) academical qualifications f) body shape I would rank d, f, c, a, e and b. To me, i would want be interested in someone shorter than me, have a good body, average looks or rather look pleasant to me, stable income with an average qualification of at least college and lastly family background as that is not important. what about you?
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
11 Nov 08
If there is NO inner beauty, you have NOTHING. ALL the money in the world will NOT buy you happiness!!! A hard heart will bring you NOTHING but PAIN!!! A beautiful face will turn ugly without a good heart. So I find your list to be shallow & silly!!!
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
11 Nov 08
i list this for fun rather than in real life. Do you think i am so stupid and idiotic to start a nonsensical post I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. Just having this discussion for fun makes it a nonsensical post to me. I reread to find out your meaning & have come to the conclusion that I'm wasting my time in this discussion. Please continue with those who DO get it!!! Sorry I wasted our time!!!
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• China
12 Nov 08
no. it is ok. i guess i am also rash to rate your reply as negative in anger. i would rate it positive back to neutralise it. hopes that help and dun affect your earning or ranking much. my intention of starting this is to find out how important would one value external and internal attributes. by listing out the external attributes as idealistic choice, we can compared them to our current partner and see if they are almost similar, most of the time, it should be similar as we would not choose a partner who differs from our preferences. Thereafter, we can look again at the list and see you would trade inner beauty for it. i know it is hard to get what i mean but let put an example, everyone can say inner beauty is important but there are some who are willing to exchange it for other external attributes like wealth or some is willing to endure an unreasonable but pretty gf etc.
• China
11 Nov 08
i think you are not getting the point in my post. i list this for fun rather than in real life. Do you think i am so stupid and idiotic to start a nonsensical post. this is why i list all measureable external attributes rather than internal attributes. of course, i know there are a lot of inner beauty like care, kind, hardworking, sincere etc. too many to list down that i do not think i would want to do it here. Look at my thread properly, i already stated that we take away inner beauty for a start and do our ranking according to external attributes. somehow along the way u are missing out on something.
@hildas (3031)
11 Nov 08
I would pick in this decision. c,d,e,f,b,a. This was quite tricky. My husband is poor and goodlooking so I would not go for this order in real life. I would have to say my top one would be that we got along really well and fell in love. I will check back to see what others are saying too.
• China
11 Nov 08
that is in real life but what about the order if u have a choice? for me now my wife is almost the same height as me but i would prefer someone shorter. apart from that, the rest of the attributes are almost the same as in real life for me.
@hildas (3031)
11 Nov 08
Is this not for fun? Ok I would pick no 1 height. (I am short) so I would lower my husband a little. Then good looks. Then a good body, Some money and family does not matter either. Cheers. Thanks for the discussion.
• China
11 Nov 08
haha. we are almost similar in our ranking. cheers and have a nice day
@Shar1979 (2722)
• United States
11 Nov 08
family background, height, personal wealth, looks, academical qualifications, body shape.
• China
12 Nov 08
wow. why would u consider family background first? i am curious cos most of my friends would not list it high in priority? my assumption is that u come from a traditional family? dun get me wrong but i am interested to know why family background is high up. in olden china or few generations ago, i think family background is the most important when coming together in a relationship but this has changes with time.
• India
11 Nov 08
Ofcourse Character comes first second Job and qualification Third family back ground, whether we can interact with them, their relationship with family etc Fourth Looks These are the basic things.
• China
12 Nov 08
haha. we leave character out in this discussion but rather rank those that can be seen or measure. that is my intention. i know character is very important but let leave it out in this instance. taking that away, Job and qualification are important, am i right?