All the single ladies, all the single ladies! Now put your hands up! The month of love is about to end and you still don’t have someone to hold hands, spend movie dates, and other couple stuff to spend with? Well, it’s never too late to find your ‘the one’ and for those men looking for love, heads up! With the progressive and open minded society we have today, gone are the days where physical features are at the top of the list in which women require in finding their true love. Below you’ll find the 5 qualities that you should have before setting up your profile on online dating sites or blind dates, achieving these will probably give you a bigger chance on encapsulating the girl of your dreams and change your NBSB status for life!
1. Jolly and easygoing
Most women enjoy the company of men who have a good sense of humor and make their stomach turn with all the laughter. It prevents from having awkward dead air during conversations or first dates because these might leave a bad impression. With this kind of quality, it would be easier to surpass misunderstandings and be more forgiving during relationships because it would be faced with a positive outlook.
2. Empathetic
A man who could easily place himself in someone else’s shoes is better than getting a master’s degree in college because this opens a lot of opportunities to somewhat experience freely the different situations may it be up high or down low that inculcates important values in life. As it states in Galatians 6:2-3, “Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.”
3. Values simplicity and meekness
Girls don’t want to date high maintenance and luxurious men because chances are high that the relationship may revolve only on material possessions rather than being Christ-centered. They prefer those who are very much willing to leave behind the life as a wealthy man just to be with their loved ones. How romantic would that be if a lavish man lives everything behind and follow the girl of her dreams? Just like how the 12 apostles left everything to follow Christ and spread the good news as it is stated in the Luke 9:23, “And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.”
4. Unselfish and Patient
“I would die for you.” Just as Christ did when He died on the cross all out of love, this might be one of the best lines a man could say to his partner. It reflects selflessness and is willing to do anything just for love. In entering a relationship, one must know that it involves great sacrifices like putting yourself last and having patience with the mistakes of one another. It is a situation where you don’t count your partner’s imperfections and mistakes but see her as perfect no matter how painful you’ll go through together.
5. Sincere and a Spiritual Person
According to the bible verse from Romans 12:9-10, “Love must be sincere, Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” In having a pure and genuine heart together with being a spiritual person that is close to God and the church paves way to making a girl’s heart to easily beat for you. Someone who very well loves and serves the Lord would love his woman better than anyone could.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails,” a bible verse from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. This verse summarizes everything that love is good and if you are looking for it you must also have a good heart. It would be easier if you remember the 5 qualities that stands for JESUS, J for jolly, E for empathetic, S for simple, U for unselfish and S for a spiritual person. A man, who follows after Christ, the only perfect love, will easily please a woman’s heart.
Mariele Aquino
Junior Writer, Website Team, Media Ministry
Mariele R. Aquino is a member and website writer of the NSDA’s Media and Public Information Ministry, an aspiring future medical specialist and currently a STEM senior high school student in the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas. Her principle in life is that genuine success is something achieved through a path and battlefield of dodging a thousand bullets without the course of self-centered desires and conducts for temporary existential accomplishment. As a form of simple youthful religious fervor, Mariele used her skills, talent and dedication in writing to serve her Lord but also to grow not only intellectually but more on spiritually.
