I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Yes, that is a title of a musical. But it is also something we think about our significant others every day. "I love him just the way he is...except I wish he would stop doing this, this and this and start doing things A, B, and C." Or, "My girlfriend is awesome but I just wish she looked like that, amd she just won't do that, say this, touch that, or lick that place." OK, that was mean. Guys dislike things about their girlfriend aside from sexual stuff. Like ability to make a sandwich. Or knowledge of sports betting.

All those fucking relationship gurus are all, "Accept your partner for who they are and they will do the same to you." "Open-mindedness and compromise are the glue that holds you two together." Blah Fuckity Blah Blah. No, what relationships are about is you find someone that has a long list of things you like, and then it becomes your job to slowly etch away the parts you don't like and fuse new things onto their personality until they are your perfect specimen. And they in turn will try to change you into their ideal. And you'll think, "Why can't he just love me for who I am?" And then you'll go inform him that he needs to anticipate your will better. Successful relationships are those in which each person concedes to some changes but then has the confidence to say, "No, that's an inherent part of what makes me, me. Deal with it." And then the show of confidence is such a turn on that you have spontaneous sex and then whatever change needed to be made can wait until later.

OK, yeah, it would be wonderful if you could find someone and have no qualms about their personality at all. But that's not gonna happen. So you gotta weigh the pros and cons and say, decide that humor and attraction and emotional connection outweigh your significant others complete lack of interest in anything you like. That's, ahem, just an example.