Posted: Jun 25, 2008, 5:29 AM CST
Five qualities – deal breakers…
I have read that in order to find the person who is right for you, it is important to sit down and really think about and write down the qualities you are looking for. That one should really do a soul searching and then write it down clearly and fully. Many of us have done that and put it in our profiles.
What I am asking now is to narrow it down to the five more important.
So,
aside from that the person would be physically attractive to you, which, we would all probably agree is a given—
What are the 5 most important qualities you look for in a mate?
Five only please.
It might not be easy to narrow it down: it wasn’t for me. But these are pretty much deal breakers. I don’t think I would want to be seriously involved with or could love a man who did not have these five characteristics.
In addition to listing the five, your comments on your choices would be interesting to have as well.
For me: (I don’t know in which particular order they belong; perhaps they are all equally important.)
1. personal dignity
2. ethical
3. intelligent
4. sense of humor
5. loving
People might wonder what I mean by personal dignity and why I think it is so important. I think of personal dignity as a characteristic in which a person respects and honors himself by behaving in the way in which he would not look back and feel ashamed of himself or to have dishonoured or disrespected himself. To me, a person with personal dignity lives his life according to his own deeply held values, respects himself, and endeavors always to be the man he believes he should be. He doesn’t have to be perfect at this, but he is always aware of it and endeavouring to behave with this sense of personal dignity.
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