I once read that "your standards are only as high as the last person you dated", so if we take this to be true, how high are your standards?

Based on all the guys I've dated...extremely high, but why would I downgrade now?

Rats, counts me out.

Sad to say that I think mine are impossibly low... In my head, I have hihg standards but I always tend to knowingly settle for less.

Hard to get what you want settling kiddo.

I guess that's why I'm here, it's easier to keep to your standards online than in real life. Out there, there is no "block" button.

Yep, and more than likely some of the things you learn on here you can start applying to out there.

Seems to me that if your standards are only as high as the last person you dated then you would still be dating them. If he quit you or you quit him somebodys standards changed to some degree...I think that instead most of us settle for what we hope will be the one that we can change to meet our standards, and that when we decide that thta person is no longer worth the effort we move on. This is not MY case but what I come up with based on what I have lived, learned and observed. Theres two sides to every story, thise stories are more often than not about what went wrong. The more I learn in life the higher my standards become...I am about learned out of the dating and probably the relationship game too at this point...but I am here...hoping....

Some might say that mine are low because I date women that are down to earth and not snooty.

Ha ha ha haaa
No block option??
Oh,you could just go ahead and install it yourself!!
Settling isnt good-always leaves you with a not so funny bitter taste in the mouth!!

As long as she doesn't have past jail time or is a wanted fugitive, then I'm game. I guess my standards are moderately high.

darling why settle for less when you know you deserve more, i dont rush i am sure it will happen at the right time and with the right person.

My standards are simple.

No cats (allergic to 'em).
No smoking (allergies)
No drinking (too many other ways to have fun)
No drugs (weird with my name, eh?)

Then I have preferences, which are negotiable and I won't go into.

From being very open minded and accepting of others choices in life, I have learned my boundaries. I don't say that a person who is not this way is wrong because to each their own but I won't deal with some things. I don't call them standards as I don't believe they are, they are personal boundaries for me.

He has to be completely single, not separated or "it's complicated"
He has to be supporting himself legitimately with a job or business, etc....
He has to have his own place where I can go to spend time with him if we want to.
He cannot be discriminatory towards people for having less than him, being different from him, believing differently than he does, etc...

He has to have a positive outlook and really enjoy life so he doesn't bring my natural high down. I laugh a lot and notice the beautiful things around me and stuff. He needs to at least enjoy me enjoying it if he is too "manly" to enjoy it with me. He has to treat people with respect always when he is with me even when they aren't there to know. Respecting life in general is a big turn on too. And he has to think that sex is one of the greatest gifts in life there is to share a lot. You wouldn't think there was a man out there who wouldn't fit that but there are.

I know I am forgetting something.....

YEA, sober, he needs to love and respect himself enough to live sober most of the time. I don't care about a drink maybe once a month with his friends or something but not too much more than that.

Don't believe everything you read. My standards have gone way up.

Or maybe it is that my willingness to tolerate jerks has gone way down.

1st class, and once you've been to 1st class you can't go back to coach.

I have High Standards !

I won't date kitchen appliances. I know.. I am biased.

Anyway, I don't really have a benchmark someone has to meet. I just mostly look to meet people with common interests, and make friends first and see what clicks in what ways. I don't really have any expectations or reservations and that lets me give pretty much everyone an equal chance to impress or unconcern me.

I just try to be the kind of person I'd like to be with.

I'd ask no more of them than I do of myself.

tough to do, I fail miserably at times, most definitely.

Wow, I don't think I could live up to that.