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Chaingang -> RE: Attraction. (6/27/2006 10:37:14 AM)
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Well, I see plenty of hearts ready to be broken again and again and again...
You have to have standards. Most people want someone with similar values and of a similar (or at least not antithetical) economic status. And that's just for starters.
Love is not the point. Getting along is the point. Once upon a time our marriages and pairings were arranged for us, now we can arrange them for ourselves - but I wouldn't put to much stock in those arrangements made purely out of love. I have loved plenty of people in my time that were not worth staying in a relationship with. Think of it this way: you love your best friend maybe, would you want to be in an intimate relationship with that person though? Often the answer is no, so there are other criteria. Lots of other criteria probably.
I say its a combination of things that changes from person to person. There is no one thing that makes or breaks it excepting something like the deal that Anna Nicole Smith walked into with that old fella. Sadly, money tips the scales always. That may not be smart, but it's what most people do.
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