Poll: What do you look for in a relationship?

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Open to anyone, single or otherwise. What do you look for in a relationship?

A few questions to narrow down the responses:

1: What traits are most important to you in a prospective partner?

2: What kind of role would you want your partner(s) to play in your life?

3: How much time would you spend together, ideally?

4: How important is it to you that you share similar tastes?

5: How important is it that you be ideologically similar?

6: What, if anything, are your dealbreakers?

Open to anyone, single or otherwise. What do you look for in a relationship?

A few questions to narrow down the responses:

1: What traits are most important to you in a prospective partner?

2: What kind of role would you want your partner(s) to play in your life?

3: How much time would you spend together, ideally?

4: How important is it to you that you share similar tastes?

5: How important is it that you be ideologically similar?

6: What, if anything, are your dealbreakers?

I peg you as female from this list.

I did likewise, starting from:

Ideally, someone slightly smarter than I am.

The emphasis on respect gave a similar impression:

Also someone I respect and admire

Guys are also slightly less likely to write:

Physical or emotional abuse. Excessive jealousy.

Oh, and humor, in this direction:

they have to be able to crack a good joke themselves.

That said, there were a few requirements there to which I thought "I couldn't have said that better myself". I'm thinking, let's see... 80% chance of female. That seems to be the odds that I would start making bets at.

I did likewise, starting from:

Ideally, someone slightly smarter than I am.

Yep. I had several boyfriends who perceived me as smarter than themselves, and it was never, ever a good thing.