WHAT ARE YOUR DEAL BREAKERS WHEN IT COMES TO RELATIONSHIPS?

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I don't really have any.

I nearly missed this topic because I thought I'd already seen it..."oh it's that one in all caps"...but that's how you do topic headings. I'm sure it's not against the rules or anything but could you possibly do your topic headings in title or sentence case, so it doesn't look like you are shouting at us? Cheers

Ok, so, my dealbreakers are something like this:

Smoker
Religious
Votes Liberal (the Liberal Party of Australia)
A social extrovert
Wants to marry
Wants to have kids
Brushes teeth fewer than two times a day

I haven't included obvious things like "abusive" or "doesn't like me" or anything else that would be a dealbreaker for most people.

Deal-breakers, when it comes to relationships:

-- First-and-foremost, the person MUST have manners! !! !! !! !! ! I'm really old-fashion, I guess, in believing people should be ladies and gentlemen----I know it's alot of work, as *I* am not always completely successful, myself, but.....

-- The person must be loving, kind, giving----but, not so much so, that they allow themselves to be a doormat; and, witty is good, too!

-- The person must NOT be controlling, abusive, into drugs / drinking (as in, being a drunk----a social drinker, is okay), getting wasted, or any OTHER thing that is destructive to me or them.

-- The person must, ABSOLUTELY, have similar values / philosophies, as mine, in regard to religion, patriotism, politics, race-relations, gays, and a few other things----but, those are "the biggies". (I say similar, because I don't want them to be EXACT, because then we'd just always be saying: "Oh, I agree", and then we wouldn't be learning / growing, as individuals; and, therefore, as a couple.)

-- The person must NOT be against the military!

-- The person must, at least, tolerate animals, well----especially, cats.

-- The person MUST like camping----or, at least, TRY it; then, if they don't really like it, that much, but can put-up with it, say, twice a year, then I can live with that. (I, in turn, will put-up with stuff, for THEM!)

-- The person must NOT be athletic to the point that they are always trying to get me to go play tennis, softball, hiking / biking, etc. If they're an outdoor person, to the degree of going horseback riding, playing miniature golf, having a picnic at the beach / mountains, riding a bike down the boardwalk, while at the beach, going swimming----that type of thing----then, that's GOOD!

-- The person must NOT be a person who is a sheeple (someone who goes-along with what everybody else thinks, just cuz)----the person must be someone who thinks, for themselves.

-- The person must have interests.

-- We MUST have similar things in common, regarding entertainment (i.e., similar interest in movies, TV, board games, restaurants, amusement parks, museums, concerts, etc.; what to do on a Saturday / weekend / vacation, etc.----even if that means just being quiet and reading a book, doing crossword puzzles, or working-on hobbies, or whatever).

-- I would PREFER that the person didn't have kids----but, being my age, that's pretty rare.

-- The fewer people the person has in their life, the better----cuz, quite frankly, the more people surround them, the farther down the line, I am.

-- I REFUSE to date anyone who has a cell-phone as an appendage----or, Fb, or any other social media, for that matter!

-- The person must not be obese----cuz I would just be worrying, all-the-time, that they're gonna drop-dead, any minute. If they are, say, 6'2" / 230 pounds, I can live with that----God knows *I* like potato chips and ice cream, a little too much, and have been overweight, in the past.

OK here are mine, which may or may not correspond with anyone else's.

1) Insists on non verbal communication for anything important.
2) Treats me as a stereotype rather than a person.
3) Seeking financial entanglement.
4) Seeking cohabitation.
5) Seeking monogamy.
6) Primarily interested in sex for procreation.
7) Didn't know what 'SSC' or 'RACK' ment.
Didn't know what 'metamour' ment.
9) Didn't know what 'relationship escalator' ment.

- Greedy
- Obese
- Too dramatic
- Plays mind games
- Not attracted to me
- Very religious
- Very traditional

Well, some people are so desperate to get into a relationship that for them it's not necessary to like the other person. I once knew a girl like that.

I have a lot of red flags now with new women I meet ,

Picking up from conversation that they have bad and feudal relationships with all the other women in their lives (friends, colleagues, relatives) and can't get on with other women

Conversation that hints the person has anger and frustration and is over-confrontational and dramatic

Speech that hints they want to be a "mommy" to partners IE, "Oh I'll have to feed you up, I'll have to make you get a haircut, I need to sort out your clothes" etc, talking about past boyfriends who were "disobedient"

Obsessive crushes on a pop star or actor with a room full of pictures of them - this is my oldest one, even as a kid I knew this was bad news. I don't mind if they crush on someone they respectfully admire, like having lots of pictures of David Bowie in his interesting outfits, but there's a difference between healthy fandom and stalkerness.

Any low esteem or bad family issues/trauma - sorry, I've had a lifetime of it in myself and others and I need a break. Someone would have to prove themselves to me as very healed and sorted out if they had trauma.

Low esteem that makes them need to flirt with and seduce all men they meet for good feelings.