The 7 Crucial Characteristics of Lasting Love

Dating experts outline seven match areas to consider:

1. Physical Appearance
2. Emotional Maturity
3. Lifestyle Choices
4. Financial Compatibility
5. Value Structure
6. Marriage and Intimacy
7. Intelligence

Read more about this article (by Dee Anne Merriman) here.

I see that the author of this article used the words "dating experts." Wrong choice of words. Because if they were dating experts per se indeed, they would have had created a list based on what lasting love should exactly be like: imperfect, estranged, eccentric, unconventional that no matter how weird things are, everything just falls right into place.

Simple as that, because the boundaries of love cannot be defined by financial compatibility, similar perspectives in life, not even by marriage. Love in the first place cannot be defined at all. Everyone has his/her personal defining clinical picture of what love for him/her is.

Because at the end of the day, you'll realize that when you're about to make love with the person you're bound to be with for the rest of your lifetime, the lights are almost always turned off (loljk). So if destiny has decided that the fat person across the room whom you have never imagined to be with until your pubes had discolored and faltered, let it be. And good luck with that.

After all, a lasting relationship is never a concept of genetic compatibility--a cognitive distortion themed in the 2009 film The Invention of Lying. When Mark Bellison (Ricky Gervais), a man with nostalgic looks, extra weight and a snub fat nose, arrives to stop Anna McDoogles' (Jennifer Garner) wedding to Brad Kessler (Rob Lowe), Anna finally decided what she wants in life:

Mark Bellison: And what is that?
Anna McDoogles: I want short fat kids with snub noses!