I wonder a lot about why people go for assholes/bitches or why they choose one person over another (although it’s usually not a choice because we don’t get to choose how we feel). I saw this little snippet on an article at AOL in the relationship section. I don’t remember which article it was under. I was just going through a bunch of them.

Do People Have “Types”?

What people are really looking for in a long-term partner — not consciously — is someone they feel will complete them or fulfill unmet needs, says Palmer. “If you feel that you’re not good at making initial social contacts, you’ll be attracted to someone who you feel is very socially skilled.” Or, if you have unfinished business with a parent, ex or other person from your past — maybe you never felt like you earned their approval — you then become unconsciously attracted to a person that will set up that dynamic with you, so you can earn the approval that you never felt. “That’s why people could appear to have ‘types’ if the person is similar to the person they dated before.”

http://www.aolhealth.com/healthy-living/relationships/

Now I’m wondering whose past approval I’m missing to make me go for the types of people I do. Then again people aren’t always like that, so it might not be that at all. So complicated. But the truth is always simple.