How Picky Should You Be About a Romantic Partner?

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'Harmful pickiness seeks perfection whereas healthy pickiness focuses on the partner most suitable for you.'

than to superficial traits such as black hair, blue eyes, or being a certain size or weight. Similarly, choosing one who is ambitious with a capacity to succeed is preferable to choosing someone with a fat bank account who drives luxurious cars. Harmful pickiness lacks a meaningful order of priority, while a healthy pickiness follows one, when focusing on essential traits.

Profound love brings out the best in each partner and makes them feel good about themselves. Loving couples frequently proclaim that they are a better person since having met the other. Conversely, harmful pickiness focuses on isolated traits that have nothing to do with bringing out the best in each other. Healthy pickiness focuses on the relationship, and in particular, on the potential partner’s ability to improve it while bringing out the best in us.

Picky people based their uncompromising attitude upon their wish to only have the love they see in the movies. Does romance necessarily need such extreme pickiness?

 

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True! There was a cerebral narcissistic character (supposedly schizophrenic or borderline according to the interpreter) from a FBI TV serie who was obsessed with perfect woman ideal, she had to be maternal, stunning, or genius like a his copy. Many women idolized this character.

Excellent clarification!

You shouldn't be picky about superficial things. But, I think you should have major values and beliefs in common.

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