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What's the most attractive trait / quality someone can have?

101 replies

stupidsillybilly · 02/05/2023 21:05

Just this. What makes someone attractive in your eyes. I'm quite drawn to intellectual men ( I'm thick as mince myself) I just find it so grrrrr when someone really knows stuff and is effortless without the arrogance.

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RogersOrganismicProcess · 02/05/2023 21:23

I like warmth with a twinkle in their eye. A balance between caring and empathic, and joy.

Timetochangetheoil · 02/05/2023 21:23

Mine is a sense of humour too. Such a cliche but if you’re laughing with someone you’re having a good time!

Timetochangetheoil · 02/05/2023 21:25

I also think being genuinely funny requires intelligence, and is usually coupled with the ability to downplay that cleverness. Being effortlessly good at something without trying. I find competitiveness such a turn off!

ThisSingleMama · 02/05/2023 21:26

Inextremis · 02/05/2023 21:08

A sense of humour and the ability to be funny - I'm instantly attracted to people who make me laugh.

Yes me too!!

Missingmyusername · 02/05/2023 21:27

Honesty and kindness

PromisingMiddleagedWoman · 02/05/2023 21:27

Most importance - kindness. Followed by intelligence, then sense of humour.

Thehonestybox · 02/05/2023 21:28

Kindness and chivalry

Chillybill · 02/05/2023 21:34

Appropriate generosity and a really good sense of humour

skippy67 · 02/05/2023 22:12

Kindness.

EatTheDamnCake · 02/05/2023 22:13

Integrity

AbsoIutelyLovely · 02/05/2023 22:15

Chocbuttonsandredwine · 02/05/2023 21:13

Seriously though intelligence, someone I can talk with

I remember one (ex) boyfriend asked me what Chicken Kiev was. I died

I had a boyfriend who announced in awe that calamari were like “fishy onion rings”

I stayed with him for another five years 😳

Tisfortired · 02/05/2023 22:18

Compassion for me.

coloursquare · 02/05/2023 22:20

Reliability

Doodar · 02/05/2023 22:23

generosity ,also a man who's good with kids/animals I go weak at the knees

HappiDaze · 02/05/2023 22:24

Intelligent, empathic sense of humour

cisisaslur · 02/05/2023 22:26

Sarcastic, quick, dark sense of humour only a couple of men have ever been able to make me laugh in my life. I married one of them and the other I worked with and he was insanely attractive to me.

TheVanguardSix · 02/05/2023 22:26

God yes to moral fibre.
Kindness, empathy, integrity, honesty.
Warmth. Vats of the stuff!
Someone who will stand tall and fix their reassuring gaze on you, even as the world around you both falls into flame.

trythisforsize · 02/05/2023 22:33

integrity, compassionate, mischief

Oftenaddled · 02/05/2023 22:34

Kindness - so long as it's fair and straightforward, not selective and performative.

Can't say I care what foods they've heard of - wouldn't see that as a sign of intelligence either.

mexicanandafewdrinks · 02/05/2023 22:35

money

Grumpi · 02/05/2023 22:39

To be able to handle their shit and adult appropriately.

The kind of person who can pick somewhere to eat, sort out train times, pay their bills on time, track down a plumber… you know, someone who doesn’t need to be micro managed or told what to do 17,000 times before they do it.

Cannot abide a manchild or ditherer. Boils my blood when men can’t manage normal adult tasks.

plus muscles.

Kinkyboots2023 · 02/05/2023 22:42

An ability to genuinely apologize when they have made a mistake, kindness, and a good sense of humour.

Alloveragain3 · 02/05/2023 22:44

Being genuine. I've no time for falseness.

Noicant · 02/05/2023 22:49

Decency, sense of duty, clever (I appreciate maths heads and people who can do things with spreadsheets). DH isn’t an overly kind person (more moral than super nice if you see the difference) but he’s incredibly empathetic to me and DD.

Morewineplease10 · 02/05/2023 22:49

All of the above, plus a massive dick.