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Originally Posted by Discord
I dumped my fiance cuz he was Emo
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I like this explanation a lot better than "because he wasn't geeky enough"
A story about geek love:
When I was about 21 I set out to find myself a geek chick. my reasoning: geek chicks are hot! and I can talk to them without them just looking at me and saying "buh?" about things I like (movies, music, microcode).
So I dated a geek chick for well over 2 years. I felt great. we talked about linux, slashdot, star trek, star wars, buffy+angel, watched Trigun and Evangelion together, went to LAN parties, we were both in Computing Science programmes so we could help each other with our homework (early on in our relationship I think I saved her from failing her Discrete Math course... why chicks can't figure out induction I'll never know), etc. etc. etc.
In hindsight to that relationship, I learned that I actually wasn't that compatible a person. Sure, we shared a lot of interests and could do tons of stuff together, but as a relationship it really just didn't fit... we always did everything together but we never really persued our own interests as seperate.
My advice to you is don't base your assessment of someone you're with on shared interests. Really the only shared interests you need with a partner is food and sex, and drugs (if you have one person that does certain drugs and another person who's against those particular drugs, good freaking luck letting that one survive). What's a lot more important is compatibility, which is to say that they can pick up where you leave off. In the parts in life that you struggle with they would excel and vice-versa. That way the two of you together can be seperate people but yet still be an effective team when you work together.
Sounds like you've given up on emo boy here, which is okay. If it's over it's over. But learn from this. Interests wax and wane and are very fluid things, so basing a relationship off of them makes for a lofty relationship that doesn't really have much room to grow and learn.