Do you allow your past experiences to limit you future ones?  Think about it. How often do you base your future choices off of past experiences?  We all do it to varying degrees.  There are definite moments that you need to not do this.  Relationships are one of them.  Now of course you know that if you don’t like certain traits in a person that is going to be taken into consideration, of course.  How often do you ask someone, “What do you like to do?” “What are your favorite foods?” “What type of man/woman do you like?” Hell I will go as far as to say we hear, “What is your favorite sexual position?” from some people when getting to know them.  Let me give you all a little advice. Pulling from the past to make your future better is fine but living from it only limits your possibilities.  Whenever I am asked these types of questions I usually respond with, “I don’t know since I haven’t gotten to know you yet.” The moment you tell someone what you are looking for based on your past they will try and become that ideal and then stop being themself. This is why the first 3-6 of meeting someone new is wasted in some cases because people aren’t being themselves they are trying to become what that other person is looking for and then when they get comfortable and just be themselves they are told “You have changed” and things get tough. Stop limiting your possibilities based on what you’ve known.  Learn to enjoy the adventure of what you haven’t known.