The Sound of Settling

At brunch this morning with two of my friends, we were talking about that article to which I linked earlier this week. One of my friends mentioned that she had stopped by Match.com to take a peek at some profiles, and she was perplexed by the myriad ways in which you can narrow the range of profiles to review. Everyone has an idea in mind of what her perfect mate would be like, but most of the people we actually go out with are perfectly wonderful but don't fit precisely inside the box. We decided that if you find someone with the two important qualities, you're not settling, no matter what the person looks like, or how much money he makes, or what he does for a living, and that anyone who would think you were settling is probably the type of impossible-to-please person who wouldn't be happy anyway.