I'm a male over 30 - Do you find that the qualities look for in a potential partner have changed over the years or are they predominantly the same?

At 36, I've come to terms with the fact that I'm just not that physically attracted to people. I remember being a kid and watching friends drool over celebrities and "hot" classmates, and figured it'd eventually happen for me. Then my twenties came, and my thirties, and it never did. It's still rare for me to be physically attracted to someone, maybe 5-10 out of 100, if that?

Perhaps you're more attracted to personality and character?

Anyway, the point I'm making is this. I may not find people physically attractive, because I've discovered that what I have always been attracted to is intelligence and compassion. It's been a constant since, well, forever. Having both is the perfect storm. It likely won't change.

Well they are two very worthy qualities to have and compassion links in with what someone else said on this thread about how she likes men who can be kind. This has turned out to be a fabulous thread with so many interesting comments

I was never a partier, and have always been an introvert. I've also always wanted a child before my fertility ends.

And now thanks to science and medicine fertility can be extended almost indefinitely.

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