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"Have you ever broken up with a guy because he wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t your type? My girlfriend will only go on a date with a guy if he&amp;amp;#8217;s 5&amp;amp;#8217;10&amp;amp;#8217;&amp;amp;#8217; or taller, is super muscular and has brown hair. She absolutely refuses to meet anyone who doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t fit into those specific categories. I keep telling her to be more open-minded because when I first laid eyes on my husband, I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t even sure I was going to like him! Here&amp;#x27;s why...My husband, Drew, the anti-geek I&amp;amp;#8217;m a total sucker for geeky guys&amp;amp;#8212;think Ross from Friends&amp;amp;#8212;but Drew didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have any of the dorky-yet-sweet characteristics that I loved. When we were on our first date, I kept staring at him because he was so cute, but he wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t the kind of guy I&amp;amp;#8217;d ever pick for myself. I always looked for skinny guys with wavy hair and glasses, and instead, I was completely falling for a muscular guy with broad-shoulders and spiky hair who wore&amp;amp;#8212;gasp&amp;amp;#8212;contacts. Once we started talking, I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t believe how much we had in common. We sat at the table for hours, and we were inseparable ever since. But sometimes I think about how if I had gone with my initial reaction, I might have missed out on the best thing that ever happened to me. I guess my type has changed for good! When I asked Drew if I was his type, he insisted that he didn&amp;#x27;t have one. Figures...he made me look shallow! It seems incredibly superficial to decide if you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to date someone simply by his looks, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard not to compare a guy in real life with the &amp;amp;#8220;guy of your dreams.&amp;amp;#8221; So, are you currently with someone who isn&amp;amp;#8217;t your type? And what is your type anyway? Would you ever break up with a guy just because he didn&amp;amp;#8217;t fit your dating requirements? Looking for Joanna? She&amp;#x27;s on vacation but will be back Monday. Cheryl Brody is a writer/editor from Philadelphia, but for the last five years she&amp;#x27;s lived in New York City&amp;amp;#8212;dangerously close to her biggest weakness, Bloomingdale&amp;#x27;s. She&amp;#x27;s also the Vice President of Ed2010, a volunteer, networking and mentoring organization committed to helping aspiring and junior-level editors reach their dream magazine jobs. Karma is a good thing: Her former intern introduced her to her husband, Drew. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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