A question for those in relationships.

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This is a question for those with girlfriends/boyfriends. I'm currently single but I'm just curious here. Do you guys have boyfriends/girlfriends who you love but aren't usually the type of person you would date ever? Like for example, there's a guy who doesn't party at nightclubs, doesn't have tattoos or piercings, doesn't drink or smoke or do drugs. He doesn't do girls who go to nightclubs, has tattoos and/or piercings, drinks, smokes, does drugs. But yet, he falls in love with such a girl and they start dating and are now in love with each other.

Sorry if the question sounds confusing but are you in such a relationship? A relationship with someone who's probably the last person who you'll ever date but, yet, you wind up with such a person.

Not for me. I like tall, intelligent blue-eyed cowboy firefighters who vote democrat. But my husband was always attracted to the Italian New Yorker type of women... like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny... or the blond Farrah Fawcett bimbo stereotype. So I'm different than what he normally goes for.

No, but i have been attracted to people with nothing on my "list". It's the reason why lists are stupid, they don't apply at all when you fall for someone.

For example I usually like tall guys, but i've fallen twice for guys only a bit taller than me, with different colour hair than the list, differnt body types etc.

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That's why my only criterion that i won't bend on is that she likes me back. Kinda hard to establish a relationship with a woman that doesn't like you or want you...

I don't like to go to night club and I do nothing to look pretty. Yet I have been in a relationship for 6 years. He is totally different from me. I can't understand what makes us get along. It's like we have always known each other.
To fall in love for an ideal person is useless, is a waste of time as ideal persons exist only in our thoughts.

Yeah. I'm pretty calm and practical most of the time, and my boyfriend is slightly more lively, social, and impulsive (but not overly), so we're pretty different. He smokes/drinks and does drugs occasionally but I don't mind; I just never imagined myself with someone who was into that. His favorite things to do are drive/race cars and work on them, and I like calmer activities but we find a nice balance for both of us. The good thing is that we both give a crap about our future so we're working hard towards it, and we also have a lot of things in common and enjoy a lot of the same activities.

He's a total family guy and I love my family as well, and we share similar thoughts/feelings on important things in life. He treats me amazingly and likes me being around his family and friends so we're usually together.

So yeah I never imagined myself with someone who's very social, but I'm really loving how it's going for us. It's a weird thing to explain but it's really nice though.

Yeah. All my exes were the 'bad boy' types.
But my current isn't - he's caring and sweet but confident.
He's better than all of them put together.

I never imagined i'd end up with a 'nice guy'

Nope! My boyfriend is everything I always hoped for in a partner

I dated a person I would put as my dream girl looks wise.. That was the worst relationship in my life..

I am now married to some girl who is nothing of what I would look for in someone, But she is so epically awesome in every way that it kinda don't matter what she looks like..

Looks aren't important though, if you click wit that person then that's all it should be.. but really dont try and go after looks that will be a big letdown because most of the time it wont work out the way it supposed to if you base your wants on looks alone.

I ended up with a partner nothing like myself. What happened was, I'd just come out of a relationship that was never going to work because she'd wanted to wear revealing clothes in public and I just can't cope with a partner like that. It was very messy because I hadn't told her how I felt early enough, so she kind of felt it was a case of entrapment, ans she would be compliant one day and noncompliant the next, which bounced my feelings around all over the place.

So I thought about it, and realised I needed to explain myself quicker next time, to avoid getting stuck with a lady of the wrong type for me. I managed to do that, but somehow forgot to think about any other aspect of compatibility at all, so I ended up with somebody who was completely different to me in every other respect. Stupid hyperfocus.

The only type I ever go for are clever people. My husband is very clever, so I stuck to my type again.

The "list" of traits that people put together and define as their "type" is just a silly game that takes place while lonely and single. If your goal is a one night stand or a trophy to take to the corporate picnic this is doable, but relationships are based on something entirely different and you can't expect to find the required internal components wrapped in the packaging you decided was ideal. These "lists" are generally amalgamations of celebrities and fictional characters and don't include the most important factors for relationships such as chemistry, shared beliefs and backgrounds, communications styles and life goals.

My imaginairy boyfriend is exactly what I expected, he's perfect! No way I'm ever leaving him

Once I knew this guy I couldn't stand to be around. Every time we saw each other we openly gave each other a hard time. Then one night, we sort of accidentally were together for the evening. By the end of the evening we were really into each other and he asked me to marry him.