Do you need to respect a woman's intelligence to love her?

Depends how much it really affects you. I would just keep doing what you're doing unless it is super serious to you.

I had an idiot gf once.
It gets to you after a while.
If you're the type of person that needs an intelligent person to bounce ideas off, then a dumb gf is going to piss you off really hard.

>>17494002
You absolutely have to respect a womans intelligence to love her. You can be realistic and practical about her mental abilities or personality, but that should never stop you from respecting who she is as an individual.

thinking of someone as smart is not the only way to respect their intelligence.

>>17494002
Is she good at anything?

>>17494051
She's not an idiot per se. I'm trying not to sound like a pretentious fool but I'm decently intelligent.

I've had one gf who I could honestly say was smarter than me or on my level. We got along great as friends but she had a weird tit so I broke up with her. Might just be me but I've learned through my various relationships that physical and sexual attraction outweighs intellectual or emotional connection when it comes to making something last long. Well, alright maybe not emotional, but a nice ass makes up for not having any input to or conception of what I'm talking about 70% of the time.

I'm really just venting at this point so forgive me. Current gf is a normie, i.e. likes pop music and says "when" memes in inappropriate places and says that adding milk to coffee adulterates it and has not one single time in five months said "yes" when I've asked "hey have you ever heard of x movie / artist / concept / book / religion / language / country / genre / political or historical event?" But she is very supportive in my endeavors and is herself artistic, and I really like spending time with her.

I sometimes think just being a NEET has given me so much time to read books and the internet and research random shit that my amount of knowledge is inaccessible to regular working people. Basically my only gripe with my girl is this lack of common ground shit, I just want to be able to reference a pop culture or historical icon as simple as fucking Freud or Nietzsche and have her understand what I'm talking about.

>>17494094
Yeah, she's good at people and giving life advice. She writes poetry but I don't really like poetry that much so I don't know. Alright fuck I'm just trying not to be mean but honestly her poems are about like cheese and coffee and shit like that, sometimes without having them represent something deeper. But some of it is good, yeah. And she's not at all bad at painting or sculpting

>>17494107
You might as well prioritize what is important. You aren't going to get everything.

I mean, would you be happy if your next girlfriend was smarter than you, but a cunt who was difficult to be around?

>>17494107
>herself artistic
then you just need to relax a bit. Great counter balance to you. Yin/Yang

>>17494127
>>17494122
Truu familys.

>>17494127
Yeah, what this guy said. Idk who the fuck Neetchie is either, but cheese poems sound funny as fuck. Smoke a joint my dude, and enjoy this silly pussy ;)

>do you need to (x) in order to (y)
No
The answer is always no

>>17494107
>I've learned through my various relationships that physical and sexual attraction outweighs intellectual or emotional connection


Lmfao you are doomed to ever have a healthy relationship with that mentality. Good luck op

>>17494240
>"healthy" = "my personal preferences and opinions"
k reddit

Yes, but you don't have to pretend she's smart at everything, more so since I doubt you are. My girlfriend is shit at math, and sometimes where she thinks the plot is going is way off base, but when ours freinda our upset she can clam them down better then my beer and casual disinterest. Its a balance, you respect her intelligence despite her being dumb about some things and she does the same for your faulty ass.

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its funny that you broke up with a girl with a "messed up tit", but you think attractiveness is super important for a long term relationship.

women peak in their attractiveness at a pretty young age. unless you marry a girl in her early twenties, each year of your relationship, she's going to become less objectively attractive, by the worlds standards.

If you're actually in love, she'll become MORE attractive to YOU as time goes on, even as the skin sags and the wrinkles appear..

There are 70 year olds who still smile at each other and still make each other's eyes twinkle. that's not because 70 year olds still have perfect tits.

until you develop a more holistic attitude about women, I predict a series of short, meaningless relationships with the youngest women available to someone with your looks and finances, whatever those actually are.

>>17494318

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As far as the question you actually asked: only you can say how important it is to you if a woman isn't smart enough.

When I was younger, I did quite well on SAT/ACT, and did well at university, and have a pretty great career at a big company you've all heard of.

So the point is, I'm pretty intelligent. There's no point in being fake-humble about it -- I'm way, way above average. So most people -- including most women -- aren't as bright as I am.

I've dated one girl who was even smarter than I was (although not at my actual field), I've dated a girl who probably isn't quite as bright at me in my field, and I've dated a few girls who were much less bright than me and wouldn't have a shot at doing what I do.

I'll tell you what: I'm not looking for a woman that can "compete" with me in my field, or in intellectual "power" in general. The things I do just aren't that interesting to people who aren't me, and that's fine, so I don't need a partner I can chat about them with.

What is much more important than the intelligence of your partner is her values, her goals, her interests, her attitude, and her work ethic.

And most importantly of all, how she treats you.

A "wise" girl, if that makes sense, is much more important than an intelligent girl.

If you get married some day and want kids, odds are, your partner will be doing a ton of the day-to-day stuff with your children. So, you don't want her to be stupid to the point of being a safety hazard or totally oblivious to what's going on around her.

But if she never got as far as calculus in school, that's absolutely not a big deal. It literally never comes up in adult life unless you're a specialist.

By the way, NOT knowing about actors, current movies, and other pop culture is a good sign, IMO. Most of that stuff is degenerate filth.

You want your wife reading books to your children - not worrying about who wore what to whatever dumbass event.

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>>17494107
>We got along great as friends but she had a weird tit so I broke up with her

>>17494339
it was a prank bro, she was actually emotionally distant