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Did you think your partner wasn't your type when you met?
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1.6K opinions shared on Relationships topic. When I was 36, I met a 30 year old. We wound up living together for over a year. She was my physical ideal - face, hair, skin, height, figure, voice, mannerism, behavior. I absolutely adored her.
When we separated, I enrolled in a pre-internet dating organization called Great Expectations. It was totally different from on-line dating. You would go to their office and go through ring binders that were organized by gender and alphabetically according to first name.
Each member had a page. On one side was a photo that had been taken by the organization during a photo shoot, and the other side had your bio.
I would flip through the pages looking at photos. If a girl was cute, I looked at her bio.
If you wanted to meet someone, you submitted a card. The person you selected would be contacted. If they wanted to meet, the organization gave you each other's phone numbers.
You could submit up to 5 cards a week.
I went on several dates. By the way, I was 40 years old.
When I met my (future) wife, I still had an image of my ideal in my head. My first impression was that she was very pretty and had a nice figure, but was taller and didn't have the same hair or eye color as my ideal, and she was dressed kind of conservatively (I don't want to say frumpy).
But we sat down to eat at the restaurant and the conversation was wonderful. It just flowed. Time disappeared. I soon realized that she looked adorable and sexy even though she looked nothing like my former girlfriend.
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- 2.5K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
I honestly felt like she was too young for me. But her behaviors, her actions toward me. Met my wife at a shinedown concert. Bad snow intervened on my behalf, I offered her my bed while I was going to sleep on the couch. She had a 4 hour drive home and it was dangerous.. She refused to let me sleep on the couch. We started texting and calling frequently.. Eventually we became a thing. About a month later my wisdom teeth almost killed me.. She was the only one who visited me while I was in the hospital, not my family or friends.. I decided at that point I was going to marry this girl. We got engaged a year later, and got married 6 months after that. Been together 11 years, married 9.
she's 9 years my junior. we met when she was almost 21 and i was 29.
- 830 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
Yes, but types change.
He was Asian,
I liked blond men with blue eyes. Actually at one point exclusively dated blond men. I was quite shallow.
But he was very sweet, hopeful and charismatic and I decided to give a chance.
I ended up rejecting an offer to be in a relationship with 3 blond men I was dating around the same time and chose the man I thought was not my type.
I fell in love with him deeply.
And I thought, he’s not my type, but if I can be so deeply in love with him, then it’s real love.
At one point, I looked at his reddish brown eyes and realized those were the most beautiful eyes I have seen, because I loved them and liking someone for their eye and hair color was stupid.
It opened my mind a little bit and changed my type, now I find all eye and hair colors attractive.
Absolutely, but I prefer to date men who are not my type. By the end of high school I already knew that every guy who is my type is a lot of trouble! It's like I have a radar for the hottest but most mentally messed up guy in the room.
Pretty sure it's from growing up surrounded by toxic and abusive people, it got wired in to be most comfortable with people who reflect my childhood.
So, one of my criteria for dating is specifically picking someone who is not my type. At least when it comes to chemistry and raw attraction.
They have to not set off that radar but still be appealing and fit a logical list of what makes an excellent partner. 👌 That's worked out great for me. 🥰 Neither husband was my type at all, and they've been the best relationships I've ever had.
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1.2K opinions shared on Relationships topic. Can only answer for my former partner but very very briefly before we actually had a conversation, I thought she was a different type of girl personality wise. Looks wise I liked her from the start, and the moment we began talking we discovered we were compatible at least in some ways very quickly. As I got to know her better that only grew.
- 927 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
I don't have type
but when I saw my husband for the first time, it was the beginning of the summer. My husband had a pollen allergy, and his eyes were watering a lot. And I thought, "ffs he looks like a frog" lol
and it had nothing to do with his face or whatever, just those eyes lol 584 opinions shared on Relationships topic. His personality was great and I really liked messaging him for hours, but I wasn’t attracted to his photos. It wasn’t until I heard him on the phone I felt even closer to him.
When we met the first time, I saw him from my car and I thought no, what are you doing! But by the time I sat down across from him I was smitten. He looked different to his pics. He had a really nice smile and the best green eyes I couldn’t stop looking into!- Anonymous(25-29)
He’s not my partner. But recently caught feelings for a guy who’s absolutely not my type. It’s like I can’t help but develop feelings for him out of my will.
He’s shorter than me, shorter than men of average height, and he’s from a place that’s outside of my city, supposedly I wouldn’t fall for anything who’s not a local.
Overall, he’s not my type physically and other aspect. I question why I have feelings for him. 5.2K opinions shared on Relationships topic. I knew she was not perfect but she was perfect for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vv-BfVoq4g- 681 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
Both were physically my type but I knew instantly my girlfriend was perfect for me.
- Anonymous(18-24)
I don’t really have a type my partner fit with where I was in my life. We’ve just been out for our 4yr anniversary. I was single before him and had a pretty awesome life. I didn’t want a relationship. He came with no drama or baggers and badgered his way in. My kids love him my parents do too. He has no family so I haven’t needed to make space for him he just fit and I love him for it
1.9K opinions shared on Relationships topic. Actually it was the complete opposite... I just knew beyond all doubt that he (now my husband) was The One.
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Are you talking physical or emotional? As if life's not complicated enough lol.
3.9K opinions shared on Relationships topic. Well I have never met any woman who is my type. I know that will never happen also.
415 opinions shared on Relationships topic. Last partner, yes, he was full on my physical type 6’2”, build, well groom, and stylish hair lol.
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I mean he was my type in the sense that he was rugged and good-looking and all, but he wasn't a guy I saw for me. Now he's been my boyfriend (not partner) for a long time.
- 1.2K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
The first time we met, we immediately mutually wanted each other badly.
- 524 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
My past 3 partners were not my type physically at all. I got to know them and we ended up going out. That's all it was.
- 3.7K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
I actually thought he was my type but now i question it
the guy I fell in love with and dated didn't really look like the type of guy I described, and that's why I loved him even more, he's not my type though he attracted me.
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I happened to date girls who were not my type.
- 1.1K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
I always liked him but we were friends first
When I first met her, I hadn't thought about having a relationship with a woman before.
351 opinions shared on Relationships topic. No, I thought she was beautiful and that was it. Now SHE didn’t like me… but I showed her as we have been married now a long time.
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