Originally posted by sydkiwi
If he was right for me he'd quit.
I'm shocked.
you're expecting someone to give up a part of their life for you? you're entering into these relationships on the basis that the person will change for you?
You can
never expect someone to change for you. A relationship with that kind of expectation just isn't going to work. The guy will just end up resenting you for making him change.
I know you're meaning that you would be the catalyst to him wanting to give up....but you can't say if they guy doesn't want to give up smoking that he doesn't like you enough!
Do you think you would ever love a guy enough to want to give up drugs? I know that I wouldn't. Drugs have been too instrumental in shaping me and what my life is like today for me to ever meet anyone who I would like enough to give up drugs. That's not saying that drugs are the be all and end all and that they rule my life, it's just that I would never give them up for a relationship with a guy. It might be ok for a while...during the period where I would spend every single waking moment with my new boy. But once the honeymoon period had worn off and I would go back to finding enjoyment out of
all aspects of my life I'd resent him for removing one of the things that I really enjoy doing.
I know smoking is slightly differnt in that it's healthy to give up and can only be a good thing for the person, but my point is that you can't
expect him to do that for you!
I'm not trying to have a go at you sydkiwi so please don't get offended. I'm just shocked that that's your opinion.
(can I also just say that I used to be like that...till I met a smoker...and I found that I actually didn't mind the smokers breath and actually thought him holding cigarette made him look cooler

now I don't mind going out with smokers at all. maybe I just liked him enough to overlook the fact. maybe this just means that you don't like this guy enough to overlook the fact that he smokes.)