I voted for “significantly less intelligent than me” because it’s the only thing I’ve ever initiated a breakup for in real life.
He was such a great guy, and it took me a long time to realize it, but he just wasn’t smart. And I imagined having to explain things to him all throughout our lives. Over and over again.
I guess I was considering what Arrendajo said. I can’t see how you’d be mid-relationship and it suddenly occur to you that the other party doesn’t have much going on upstairs. It would be a non-starter. But spending, that’s a whole 'nother story. One party likes to go out and drink, whereas the other would rather go to the theater. That sort of thing.
Other - communication. I like to talk through things - things that go wrong or things that go right. I was engaged to a girl who just didn’t want to talk. Her approach to everything was to just ignore it and let it unfold. I broke it off and I’m very glad in retrospect I did.
Give me a break. Geeks may be intelligent, but that doesn’t equate to being smart.
And here I thought that ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’ were synonyms.
Well you are wrong in my view.
Given the wording of the poll, I chose “significantly less intelligent”. But if the religion question had said “significantly different” rather than just “different”, I would have chosen that.
That is to say, I’m Catholic. If I met someone who was otherwise right for me and whom I would otherwise marry, but she was some other Christian denomination, I would convert, if she didn’t. I might even do so if she were Jewish or Muslim. But if she were atheist, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or most other religions, I’d call it off.
I like socializing with people who are smarter than me. Now, if someone I was attracted to thought I just wasn’t smart enough for her, she’s perfectly free to avoid me for that reason, but that’s her call, not mine.