Doper men - Have you ever dated a woman larger or stronger than yourself?

I’m 5’4", 120lbs. Yeah, I’ve dated women bigger 'n me. (I don’t know about “stronger.”)

No biggee, it all works out. (My fiancee is taller than me - doesn’t bother me, except sometimes when she wears heels and it’s exaggerated. Yow.)

No.

Current GF is nearly a foot shorter than me and just over half my weight. She’s light enought that I can carry her to her bed. And she has tiny hands.

But her hands are amazingly well-muscled. She kicks my ass in thumb wrestling. Being that she’s a massage therapist, that should come as no surprise.

Yeah, I have. I am 5’7", and then I probably weighed 140. She was easily 6’2", perhaps a touch more. She was rail thin, and although she kicked like a mule, I was definitely stronger.

The lesson from this brief relationship is that when you know the woman is crazy beforehand, you are probably underestimating just how crazy she really is.

Can Doper chicks with tiny guys respond? :smiley:

Mr. S is 5’6" and about 140#. I’m 5’7" and, erm, not slender, plus I have relatively long arms and legs. I’m the one who gets things off high shelves, and we’re forever adjusting the car seat: I push it back so my knees aren’t jammed up under the dash, and he pulls it up so he can reach the pedals.

I don’t think I’m stronger than he is, but I bet I could do him some damage if we ever decided to mix it up. :smiley:

5’6" is tiny?

No. You’d crashed the system.

I think all the women I’ve dated have been shorter than me. I once joined a dating service that set me up with Miss Utah, but it was Miss Utah in a bodybuilding competition. That might have been interesting, but we never met – the guy who ran the service also ran a roommate service, and he mixed the lists. Deliberately.

I’m around 5’10", I dated a girl that’s about 6’-6’1". When we started dating she was slightly heavier than me. It never bothered me at all. She’d tease me about it sometimes and apparently we got looks holding hands, but I never noticed/cared.

I’m 6’1, 275, and one of my two primary hobbies is weightlifting. Lady Soul is 5’9, she won’t tell me how much she weighs (she’s of average-ish build, I suppose), and she’s a former Connecticut state judo champion. I don’t know what would happen if we actually fought, but I think we’d have to buy a lot of new furniture.

My current SO is heavier than me, but I’m taller and stronger. It’s not an issue, but neither of us are violent people.

I’m 6’4", 210+ lbs. Most of the people I dated before my wife (and including my wife) were (are) much smaller than me. However, there was this one girl who I’m pretty sure could’ve kicked my ass. She put three previous boyfriends in the hospital, one she punched in the ear so hard she ruptured his eardrum. I didn’t stick around long enough to be #4. She was a tall, solid German/Irish chick. Not at all my type; I don’t know why I dated her.

Woo woo! :smiley:

Sort of.

I’m 5’ 10 1/2", 190 lbs. My wife is shorter than me (5’ 7"), but heavier (probably 250 or so, she won’t tell me).

I’m more athletic and stronger, she’s just bigger. :slight_smile: Doesn’t matter to me; I loves me a curvy girl.

Never dated a woman who was physically stronger (though a mentioned upthread I hate dated a couple that were more athletic/toned,) but I did date one that was slightly taller, though not heavier. I’m about 5’11", and she was (well, I assume still is) 6’. So not much of a difference, really. She was actually my first girlfriend, too, so it wasn’t until I dated other girls that I actually realized it was normal for me to have to bend my neck down a little bit to kiss them. It was kind of like,

“Oh, right…most women aren’t six feet tall.”

Like I said upthread, my current GF is pretty short (5’ 2"), but in the past few months more than half of the women I dated were 6’ tall. Most of them were quite attractive, but Amazons are just not my thang. I loves me some short women.

I’m 5’10", and dated a woman once who was 6’1". And liked to wear heels!!

She wasn’t physically stronger than I, though. I did try to manuever kisses when I was standing on steps at first, because it felt weird tilting my head up to kiss. The relationship never proceeded past kissing…

Interesting note, for her, is that she went on to marry a guy who was 5’7"-ish.

Well, next to all the six-foot, two-hundred-pounders in here, yeah.

Personally I like being able to look him in the eye without straining my neck.

I dated a girl who was on the rowing team when she was in college. She was slender-but-athletic when we dated, but i got the impression that she was pretty buff when she was rowing. i asked her how much she could bench back then and she wouldn’t tell me. :slight_smile:

Take heart- it probably wasn’t very much. :smiley:

Rowing is legs-intensive, and the upper body motion is a pulling motion rather than the pushing motion inherent in the bench press. Rowers generally don’t like the questions, “How much do you bench?” and “Are your arms really strong?” generally because we don’t know and not proportionally to our legs or a weightlifter, they aren’t.
But she’d probably have pwned you on the squat rack or doing bench pulls, so don’t get too puffed up either. :smiley:

Nope I haven’t. Through some twist of fate, both my current and my two ex-GFs are Asian; they tend to learn towards the smaller side.