"I'm not prepared to settle for anyone who I don't feel is right for me. Will probably be single forever but I'll more than likely be happier that way!" - I've always had to have the physical chemistry in my relationships, so have ended up with a bunch of arseholes. I have tried to get my kids to do things the other way round, make sure their partner is nice, respectful and then teach them how to have a good sex life - but my son has very recently split from his lovely girlfriend of 5 years, because the sex fizzled out. He's still good friends with her, but has now turned into a dog with 2 tails following up all the crazy but exciting girls who liked him but were off limits because he was in a relationship. He blames this change in his behaviour on having my genes! He is a lovely bloke and I'm proud of him, but maybe some people have different physiclal needs and no matter how much you like someone, if they can't light your fire, it just won't work. But it also seems, (in my vast experience of these matters!!) that when you do go for the ones who light your fire, they tend to be crap in all kinds of other ways, so you are destined to have a string of failed relationships. So the choices seem to be: stable and boring, or exciting and doomed!!