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Would you love her if you were blind?
Five overlooked qualities that will help you attract and keep a soulmate
When I first met my wife, I was an idealistic, starry eyed 16 year old. Life was full of opportunity, dreams, freedom and wonder. I was a bit of a social outcast; a long haired, slightly bipolar, promising student who rarely slept and didn’t give a damn.
My life was built around my few friendships, my studies and my ‘extra curricular activities.’ Other than people I’d met in secondary school, all of my closest friends were female. I had no difficulty getting along with girls; maybe because I grew up with three sisters, or maybe because they seemed a little more mature (all of my male friends were older than me).
Like most teenagers I was surrounded by beautiful girls. They were everywhere, but there was one in particular who set my heart racing at double pace, kept me up at night and was often the major topic of conversation with my friends. But it wasn’t just the way she looked, there was something else about her; the things she talked about, the habits she had, the things she did, that really made her stand out and had me utterly infatuated.
I waited for months to ask her out because I didn’t want to distract her from her A Level exams. When I eventually did, on Friday the 13th of…
