more thoughts on relationships

Today I was listening to a podcast of a Christian radio show that I happened upon while reading the articles mentioned in my previous post (the Boundless ones). I am not necessarily recommending the show, but it's not bad. There was one comment about how women weren't designed to be independent, which made me bristle a bit. Anyway, there was a girl commenting on the whole "nice guys finish last" idea ... the thinking that all of us single gals are out there looking for the bad guys and snubbing the nice ones (one could argue that we go for these bad guys because they come after us when the nice ones don't, but that's neither here nor there). This is a snippet from her comments that I thought was both hilarious and true:

“To be honest, these days what I’m attracted to most is a nice guy who finishes what he starts. He can finish last or first or somewhere in the middle of the pack, but a guy who follows through and does what he says he’s going to do is so attractive to me. For example, I’ve been toying around with a cool idea for an animated screen play. I was discussing this with a man I dated recently and he asked me what my plan was to write it. And I remember saying, ‘What do you mean, plan?’ And he said, ‘You know, I mean, how do you plan on accomplishing it? Are you thinking about writing one hour a night, or reserving one weekend day to write? How do you plan on finishing it?’ And I answered, “Sheesh. I never thought about finishing it, I just like to talk about starting it.’ Well, he mentioned he could work up a little grid for me in Excel to help me come up with a game plan to ‘get ‘er done.’ Now perhaps this isn’t normal, but a man with a spreadsheet makes me swoon. He had me at "grid." It seems lately all I do is start things I don’t finish. So a man who can make a commitment to finish something is someone I’m totally drawn to.”