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trust me, it's all a lot of bollocks, it's not what's on the inside that matters at all, I mean, sure, it's personality that counts towards making a relationship work, but it's also a sense of fear, fear of lonelyness, some people just want to make a relationship work so much that they completely change. I've just never been that flexible, I can't change who I am to "snag" a lady, I am who I am, and I'm an abbrasive smart-arse, which, last time I checked, isn't the most attractive of traits.
So I can either change who I am and become a smiling, sensitive moron, or I can just aim lower, to girls who are probably posting the same kind of nonsense on some other internet forum.
Anyone want my serious two euro cents? Well, you're going to get them anyway.
It's different strokes for different folks. Some people, for whatever reason, want to forge lasting relationships. Fear of loneliness may explain it for old codgers, but when someone in their twenties gets hitched, I can't believe it's just because they're afraid of dying alone. Maybe it's cultural, maybe it's to get a ready source of sex, or maybe they really do feel some strong emotional affinity with each other. Who knows?
My longest relationship lasted about a year, and it was only that long because I couldn't think of a tactful way to dump her. But a number of people, like DexX, seem to be very happy in their marriages or long-term relationships. No one can presume to say to them "Actually, you're mistaken. You're not happy at all". While my personal feelings on this are like Kajun's, and I'm a bit cynical about a custom which was originally devised just to verify paternity, I don't really think it's a matter that can rationally be argued.
Having said that, I think "Looks mean fuck all" is a slight exaggeration.