We all know that brains are important in a potential partner, but have you ever wondered…uh am I too picky? Well, maybe you’re a really smart person that needs to just kick back, loosen up and grab a beer or a glass of wine.
Dr. Alex Benzer, author of “The Tao of Dating,” writes in the Huffington Post, , “From my observations, the following dating challenges seem to be common to most smart people. In fact, the smarter you are, the more clueless you will be, and the more problems you’re going to have in your dating life. Once upon a day I used to be pretty smart, and believe me, I had a lock on clueless.
So, maybe you’ve graduated from an Ivy League University and also have an MBA and a law degree. You have strict criteria on who your potential mate should be; their favorite foods, restaurants, and of course, they better be able to have long intellectual conversations with you about Renaissance Art and how to calculate various Physics problems.
Dr. Benzer does have valid points. I mean, if you’ve grown up only focusing on achievement, brains, and more brains, you forget that human beings are also living creatures that need to be around other human beings. This requires that you do things like take care of your appearance, be fun or at least funny to hang out with, be caring, and more attributes that don’t require a fancy degree.
So, if you find yourself wondering if you think too much about why you’d rather wait for that perfect brain-ed person to waltz into your home, maybe you should just get out there and live a little. You get one life, so live it!
Zeroing in on any one attribute will spell relationship disaster. Be it, looks, smarts, money, etc.
Very true, Jess. Thanks for commenting.