Posted: Oct 31, 2006, 8:37 AM CST
In response to:
I'd be happy with one who just loves life and wants to share some of it with me!
"Must love life to the fullest!!!"
What exactly does that mean?
The "must" at the beginning just sounds like a demand as do the three exclamation points at the end. Who's going to be the judge of this? Obviously the woman who is demanding it. This is why it's a valid question to ask precisely what this means.
I have a very deep appreciation and reverence for things. I also very much appreciate the simple things in life. Does that qualify as loving life to the fullest? Or do I need to run around like a crazy person being an enthusiastic extrovert all the time to qualify as "loving life to the fullest"?
To me there are many different ways to love life to the fullest, so that phrase alone really does nothing for me. When I see these words, and I see them often, they just appear to me to mean that the woman has certain activities that she's going to be interested in doing and any man who isn't interested in doing them will be deemed not willing to live life to the fullest.
Personally when I see that phrase I usually just click off and move on to the next profile. It just implies to me that the woman isn't going to be happy unless she's running around all the time like a social butterfly. Not my idea of living life to the fullest to be honest about it.
Now, what AlphaWolfe1954 said in the quote below looks much less demanding to me and much more accepting of the desires of her partner.
Just my thoughts on the cliché in the thread topic.