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| Here's my 2 cents:
"1. Smoking of any kind, is not allowed in my presence. Please note that cheapness is not a precursor to ******ity." I should advise no smoking period, because if he was a serious smoker, the odor in the body is still there years later (i.e in their room first thing in the morning.... even when they quit smoking a few years back) plus wouldn't you hate to smell it off the dude cos he went to smoke outside. Smoking winds me up period, and I have often been accused of treating smokers as less-than-human... I abhor the habit!!!
"2. Must not have an overrated body type. Whereas I won't have time to fend off unwanted gestures from other male species while taking a stroll in the mall, I equally do not have time to walk infront of you just to avoid such exclamation marks as, “damn, where did you get this one from" "
This happens???? Never heard of that. Learn something new everyday "3. Should not be a subscriber of the theory of growing old where narrow waists and broad minds trade places. There is no reason why old age can't be desired and equally no reason why abdominal enlargements should occur at old age"
I cannot deal with pot bellies AT ALL! Glad am not the only one who sees them as hedious. "5. Enlarged abdomens are a no go. I own a small car and my budget for the next couple of years doesn't accommodate a new car"
LOL!!!!! (It's a little coldly put though)
"7. Lunch is a luxury, but you have a choice to do it, otherwise I can survive with one meal a day"
This is a joke, my friend was married to a guy whereby even though the food was cooked and in the fridge she had to go home and serve it, otherwise he would starve and say she was a bad wife. I was married to one who needed it served on a tray and to wherever he was seated.
"8. Eating after hours is not permissible, so whether I or you are present, dinner will be served before 8pm in any time zone"
SERIOUSLY!!!??? What makes it okay for you to dictate when he can eat? And he can't even eat around you after 8pm, this is unreasonable even for a flatmate let alone a spouse... I find this unreasonable and controlling. This is bullying in my book and you do not want to be bullied so why bully the other person.
"9.Relatives, yours or mine are good buddies but not good housemates. The statue of limitation to relative house guests is 20,160 minutes "
Nice! The business of the relatives moving in to live for free is too rampant!
"10. School is absolutely necessary...."
Yeah and uneducated man cannot handle an educated woman, bring out the ugly in him. If you want peace make sure you are equally yoked.
"13. Prior experience not necessary and not interested to know of your previous partners. Try to avoid these in as many ways as you can when conversing with me. Try to avoid statements like, when I was with my former? Well, definitely it didn't work out and I know this because you are taking your time to read this"
This says more about your jealously-o-meter than it does about the bloke, unless he is just doing it to wind you up. You can learn a lot about a person by their previous actions, it may very well be in your interest to know.
"What do I have to offer, well everything that you don't have."
Are you kidding me????
You said you were getting older and wanted someone to settle down with. I read you post and it comes off like you are controlling (generally, not just the topic I picked on). The problem is you attract what you are, do you really want to be in a power struggle relationship???
Also, the pot belly things, what happens if you do find a guy who has everything you want and more and he has a pot belly? What are you going to do? Am not judging you, it happened to me and I let the guy go, I seriously cannot deal with a guy am not attracted to no matter what. That's what I learnt about myself.
This is what my list would have looked like 5 years ago, with my experience this is what I would like to point out.
If he is not competent as the father of your children (because that is who he will become) then you shouldn't be with him.
The stuff about the dirty little habits you hate shouldn't be on this list. Why? Because one always needs to spend time getting know the person before they invest in the relationship. Investments mean, money, sex, children etc. You would establish all these little habits BEFORE you invested, so why are they on the list???
Main deal breakers in marraiges/relationships are finances, selfishness (which goes hand in hand with the bad sex), bullying, bad tempers (i.e someone who really loses it when they are mad and scare everyone) and education. You only mentioned 1 of these. If you are financially stable why would you be with a broke man even if he has a phd (I know a few of those). A man who is a bully is oppressive and can certainly take your sanity, and so on.
Is it just me, or doesn't he need to be willing take an STD test too, you can never be too careful with that. LOL! |