I can’t believe it would. It’s just regular self care
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I LOVE your high standards! No compromise! 
Keep in touch when she flames out. My daughter is perfect. 
All I’ve got to say is please send your nice daughters who are looking for nice normal boys my son’s way. 
(He would 10000% kill me if he saw me say that.) He is blondish, but otherwise meets all of these criteria. He goes to a great school… a great STEM school. With way more guys than girls (and although a future engineer, doesn’t play video games and totally digs his humanities work!)
I am hopeful that someday, somehow, there is a nice young lady somewhere in his orbit.
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She likes “himbos”? :>)
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Yes! As a future actuary, I’m hoping she meets someone more serious.
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Let’s wait til she’s had a year in college and she’s willing to be fixed up by moms. 
This is fun thread. 
My S is 6’2” and can’t avoid stopping at any independent bookstore that he comes across, or local coffee shop.
He meets all the criteria you listed (and even cooks), but has a serious gf.
(And I swear she is an Amal Clooney in training.)
I had a list of required boyfriend traits when I was in college. My DH didn’t meet a couple of my “must haves” (he was blonde, blue eyed, and my list was dark haired and blue eyes)….but hes perfect for me.
31 years married. Happily.
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It’s been a total of 7 years, 4 of them medium long distance, and they’re both on the other coast ( almost a year, now) for graduate school!
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I’m assuming S23 is either a great catch or exceptionally good at deciding who to spend time with because I’ve loved every one of his girlfriends.
D22, who is cute as a button, on the other hand…
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Hmm, son meets a great many of the criteria. But he’s a socially awkward loner and has only had one girlfriend - in senior year of high school - she was a fellow member on the math team and I think she picked son to be a token boyfriend for all the activities like homecoming and prom. I bless her to this day.
So - if we knock out “likes dogs” and admit that he is a game systems addict - he’s tall, good looking, smart, good education, decent job, non substance user, not a sports fan, likes the arts, not a political fanatic but definite in his beliefs…
Also he would likely appreciate someone who could take charge and make decisions for the two of them!
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Marilyn,
What you or another guy-mom really needs to do is list your girlfriend criteria here so we diva girl-moms get a reality check! 
Well I also have a son. My DIL doesn’t meet a single criteria on the list I would make as a son’s mom but she makes him happy and it’s all I need to know
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My D didn’t date in high school or college. She once told me that her life was too much of a mess to bring someone else into it. A couple years after college graduation, when she had a job she liked and lived in a town she enjoyed, she met a great guy. Bonus … he was from our area, even though they were living five hours away. They got engaged after a few years, moved back to our area, and they got married. Tomorrow I am babysitting their 3 year old while they go out to celebrate their sixth anniversary. I never thought about what I would want in a guy for D, but I am sure neither D nor I would have envisioned the man she married … but he’s perfect for her!
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In the spirit of fairness, I’m going to make a list of desirable qualities in a hetero girlfriend. I’m going to do this knowing that my daughter does not possess some of these traits, but I’m hoping she grows into them! I don’t want to get too serious on a joke thread—but I can’t really let my statement that my daughter is perfect stand without a challenge.
Traits for an Ideal Girlfriend, 18-22 years old
- Must not be reliant on social media for values
- Must not want to marry rich and be a TV “Housewife”
- Must not judge men by their popularity with other men/women
- Must not want to date a man without having had an honest conversation
- Must be willing to pay her own room and board her entire life. Extra money just an accidental bonus.
- Must understand other women as potential friends, not foes
- Must be willing to accept her boyfriend as he is, and also willing to grow with him and change
- Must not be a couch potato!
- Must seek out larger meaning in life (aka, “be interested in the humanities”
- Must be open to supporting someone else in their goals
- Must not be a weed-head.
- Must not be physically vain
- Must know how to take care of herself and keep her own spaces tidy.
Okay, that said, I’m very interested in going back to compare my two lists. I suspect that my jokes about external qualities in men will fall far short of my more demanding standards for young women!
Rave Style…
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Most of these things are about character, behavior, or ideology. But why “must not have blond hair”? That seems kind of unreasonable! Is this coming from her or you?
Realistically, though, very few people retain naturally blond hair once in mid to late 20s.
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The first list was a joke–so I was just typing in some actual desirable characteristics, and some ridiculous ones like height and hair color.
Now I really need to know why 
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That one was mostly a joke–but I do know some young would-be “entrepreneurs” who use this goal as an excuse not to put in real working hours–to spend their time “planning” and taking financial support from people with regular jobs.
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