Yes, intelligence is at the very top of the list. I'm really really tired of dating people who think a neutrino is some kind of pasta dish.

I have. It's no big deal. I've had lots of practice at being wrong.

I'm sort of on the fence here. While I'd be the first to admit that being alone can be painful, my experience has been that being with someone always turns out to be much worse.

When I get those, they are always either a.) obvious scammers or b.) one-word messages like "Hi" or "Hello." I don't respond to them either way.

I would reply to the not-quite-obviously-scammers if they wrote something relevant, something more than one word, but that never happens.



I get lots of e-mails saying they saw my profile and they think I'm interesting, and they're looking for a good man to settle down and start a family with. That's how I know they didn't actually read my profile. These almost always turn out to be scammers, and they've probably sent the exact same message to 2,488,943 other people.



Same here, and I think I've bludgeoned the world with my "No Kids" policy long enough that anybody who doesn't get it is either blind or on serious medication.



One of the incomprehensible mysteries of life -- why go after after a guy with an immutable "No Kids" policy and try to change him, when there are 2,927,552 men on here who are totally OK with kids?

I'll never understand people....

Let me clarify this.

I don't date women with kids. Period. When I meet someone without kids (or when I used to, back in the pre-Civil war days -- it never happens anymore), I make it very clear that I'm not interested in a relationship that would eventually LEAD to having kids. I'm a non-parent till death.

Almost every gf I've ever had, has told me, in the beginning, that they don't want kids either. This is important, because there isn't even going to be a relationship otherwise.

But, inevitably, it turns out they have lied. They really DO want kids, but they won't admit it until they think I'm hooked -- usually 3 months into the relationship.

My point in the earlier post was that it's happened so often that it's difficult for me to imagine it NOT happening.

Oh, I totally identify with this one. From the "selection" angle.

Although it's been years since I met anyone I'd even consider as a dating prospect, I do have this thing in the back of my mind that, if I ever do meet anyone, they're going to lie to me and tell me they don't want kids when they really do.

In my defense, when you've had that exact same thing happen to you 90 times in a row, you come to expect it as an inevitability!

And I suppose this could be a problem if a "real" person ever actually shows up....!

Happy Birthday, Soufie!


And keep up the great work!!!

Then I'd have to say "None of the above"!

Let's put this in perspective.

Would you refuse to date someone because of their shoe size? I mean, unless their feet are freakishly huge, let's say the size of aircraft carriers, it wouldn't make any difference to me.

Would you refuse to date someone because you didn't like their Social Security Number?

Would you reject someone because their IQ score didn't measure up? (I would, but we're talking in general for everybody, in this instance.)

Would you turn someone down just because they paid too much for car insurance? The least you could do is tell them about Geico.

Alfred Hitchcock on bagpipes: "These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."

eHarmony said it best: "Unmatchable."

I have one I've been on and off with for the last 12 years, and frankly I'm getting tired of it. But she is so smart and creative and funny and....she even did the covers and page formatting for my first two books. But she just can't stick to a commitment, and that's a problem....

As for my other exes, I'd just as soon throw all of them into an active volcano. And I'm quite sure they'd say the same about me!

Age tells you how many times a person has ridden the planet around the sun. A lot of people seem to think there's a correlation between age and wisdom or maturity or whatever, but I have seen little evidence of any such correlation.

"Don't try to fix me. I'm not broken."

They're trying to con me into supporting their 26 kids, that's what they're trying to do....

That's not a bad idea! Especially if it will help inform the change-mongers that their interference is NOT needed....!

Yup, I've given up too. I will spend the rest of my days writing books, and hopefully some people will get some enjoyment out of them.

Here's an example:

My ex-wife could not spell or pronounce the word "ghosts."

But I didn't divorce her for it.

It took me finding about her drug use for me to do that!

Knowing the source here, I'm going to say it's "Eye love two play wet mice elf."

Little habits and quirks are no big deal.

I've just got a few definitive deal-breakers. Avoid those and anything is possible.