Posted: Jul 9, 2008, 11:34 AM CST
So many conditions on love that it's hard to know which ones to put on a prospective partner first.
No one I know will live in a dirty house, sleep with a dirty man/woman, put up with nose picking at the table, ball/ass/crotch scratching in public, someone who never flosses or flushes the toilet, farts out the latest tune, eats their nails,sets their family aside for football or beer or drugs or another woman/man, or gambling, shopaholics, alcoholics, kleptomaniacs, prescription pill poppers, snot inhalers/lickers/eaters, physical/mental disabilities, and fanatics.
Smoking is often just one of those things, no better or worse than a million other habits if they are willing to do it away from people it bothers.
The thing is that we can always find something to not put up with in people, no matter how good we think we are going to be at accepting the other person warts and all.
In the end, nobody's perfect.