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To be honest, the general of dating success is to find someone who have the same values, viewpoints, personality, characters, lifestyle as you. If you just dating for fun, date random people with no similiar hobbies, no similar views in life, someone who 180 degree different lifestyle from you, then doesn't matter what rules you have, most likely it won't work out.
For example, you like someone who respectful to your family. Even if she have the model face and body, and she start open her smart mouth with your parents, I honestly doubt it gonna work out. Unless you are blindly madly in love, that you don't care about your parents.
Example, if you want a woman who also work to help you build, and raise a family together. But she end up demanding you to work only, take your monthly check, and spend your money. With such different outlooks on marriage, I doubt it can work, unless you are willing to give up what you considered to be an ideal marriage, just to have a wife.
Example, if you as child, see alcohol and drugs mess up your family. Now as grown, you just won't date anyone who is a drug addict, or acoholic. Even if you lower your standards to date someone like that, do you really think it going to work out? Not likely, unless you blind.
I really don't understand why you have to lower yourself just to get a date. You must really be really "desperate". People have preference, of who they considered to be their ideal partner. Why lower that? Why change that? Because you lonely and desperate for a gf/bf?
I prefer to take time to find the right person, and then date. I wouldn't date someone without knowing them. I have to at least be on some sort of "friends" level with them first before jump to anything else. Because without knowing their characters, their lifestyle, all dates will FAIL!
Not so much here (well a few posters including one I haven't seen in awhile) but many people on other sites, including dating sites. I would even get nasty messages. Offline many people (before I met my boyfriend)told me I was unrealistic.