All of everything in this thread pretty much can be circumvented by one piece of advice. "Lower your standards." I've met a man who was 400 pounds, had a tiny tim voice, smelled like a greasy poop, never bathed, and wasn't all there up stairs, but he was totally married and happily so. I've met a woman who was proportioned like a meat loaf that has been in the sun for too long, had a lazy eye, a gimp leg, and the personality of an Eminem character, but she was hopping from guy to guy quite flawlessly. And the reason? They didn't give a flying fuck, and they stayed in their league and went about their business.