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WolfishMusings
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Wolf, if you won’t go out with someone who is too tall, too short, too smart, not smart enough, not pretty, has red hair, too outgoing, too quiet, etc. are you also “punishing people for things beyond their control” ?

That’s not quite the same thing.

It’s one thing to refuse to date someone because of something that is a part of them (i.e. their personality, their middos and, yes, their physical attributes). It’s something else to refuse someone out of hand for something that their parents did.

And, yes, if a person’s parents’ divorce overly affects him, then yes, that’s grounds to say “no.” But you can’t know that until you at least meet him/her. To just give a blanket “no, I will never date someone with divorced parents” is just wrong.

The Wolf