what're your views on this?

i had just filled this out on a site about relationships, and it made me realize something along the lines of "this appears to be a great insight." I'd like to see how the rest of SP feels about this.

...there's that point where if a woman is so smart it's intimidating to be near her, and yeah that makes me nervous if I know anyone like that, but that's the fun and challenge of it. Getting to know someone that's smarter than you, finding a common bond, and expanding from that point to find more things in common, more shared interests, it could lead to all sorts of things. Whether they open up to your interests that they never tried before, or vice versa, it's the challenge that makes a great relationship even more rewarding when it works.

'Course it doesn't always, but that's to be expected. We live, we learn, we love, we laugh, we leave, and we move on. sometimes, people are lucky and get stuck at the laughing and loving.

Sure relationships are a hard thing to come by for some, and thats not including the meaningful, deeply connected ones. but, what does SP have to say?

Id take a girl who challenged me intellectually. Only problem is, Im not the kind of person to go solely off of looks or of intellect.

What's the insight there? I'm not seeing it. It looks like he's in an I-Just-Started-A-Relationship high.

Also, I don't understand the allure or the intimidation factor of being around an intelligent woman. She may be extremely intelligent in one area (such as laying out a room, or business sense, or woodworking) but dumb as bricks at balancing a checkbook. She may be on the whole a quick thinker, but not all quick thinkers are intelligent in all areas. Each part of a couple is supposed to bring good qualities to a relationship. I wouldn't date a woman if I felt she couldn't keep up with me.

I wouldn't date a woman if I felt she couldn't keep up with me.

Yeah, good point, but for myself, i leave a lil wiggle room.

What's the insight there? I'm not seeing it. It looks like he's in an I-Just-Started-A-Relationship high.

Also, I don't understand the allure or the intimidation factor of being around an intelligent woman. She may be extremely intelligent in one area (such as laying out a room, or business sense, or woodworking) but dumb as bricks at balancing a checkbook. She may be on the whole a quick thinker, but not all quick thinkers are intelligent in all areas. Each part of a couple is supposed to bring good qualities to a relationship. I wouldn't date a woman if I felt she couldn't keep up with me.

ill go out on a limb and assume youre a smart guy. and ill go further out on that limb and dare to say youre smarter than me. then ill dangle by a thread at the very edge of that limb and say im of average intelligence compared to the world at large.

Ive never really known many smart women, and i have poor social skills to begin with; so to find a woman that's way smarter than me and has a relative interest in me, im like a drooling monkey holding the idiot ball/orb of confusion.

also the insight was that last part. the "we _______, we _____, we _________________,..." segment, to me at least.