20 Traits That Differentiate An Ideal Partner From The Others

"We were not making love, we did not even kiss, but the inexplicable intimacy we shared left us wordlessly and hopelessly locked into each other’s gaze." -Jasmine Dubroff

I’m a sucker for romance, there is nothing I enjoy more, than sitting down on a night time and going on an emotional roller-coaster ride.

It doesn’t matter if it’s from a book, a chick flick or just a television show.

If there is a romance plot, then you would be right in betting that I’m backing it.

The only problem with that is, I’ve become a bit of an expert, I could sit down and have a movie plot worked out in five minutes, I could read three pages of a book and know who was going to get together and I could tell you in series one, episode one who are destined to be soul mates.

You see the thing is, and you don’t realize it straight away, underneath every romance plot there is essentially the same story being told.

They all follow the same basic principles.

And I wonder if we applied these basic principles to our own lives, would it help us find love?

After all, no good romance story ends without the boy getting the girl, right?

# Good sense of humor

# Attractive *both inside and out*

# Interests that are mutual

# Offers life experiences

# Loves regardless of flaws

# Selfless

# Caring

# Empathy

# Loyal

# Emotionally stable

# Practical

# Ambitious

# Smart

# Friendly

# Grown up

# Secure

# Creative

# Passionate

# Protective

# Honourable

Traits are the things that connect you to a person, whether it’s because they are the same as yours or because you enjoy them being different, and it seems that if you want to find your soul mate, then you want them to have at least five of the twenty mentioned.

I don’t know a single person who hasn’t fallen in love with at least one fictional character in their time, I mean, can you put your hand on your heart and say that you haven’t?

That alone tells me that people who write romance stories are tapping into our fundamental needs as people. It means that for some reason, and I don’t know what that reason is, people all over the world are falling in love with essentially the same men. The prince charming’s of the fictional world.