One of the topics I discussed with my 7^th through 12^th grade classes recently was healthy relationships. During the class I asked my students to describe their ideal boyfriend or girlfriend. The prompt was: “I would like my boyfriend/girlfriend to be…”

After hearing their responses I thought, “This is the stuff that love songs are made of.” I’ve translated a number of their responses because they are too great not to share.

Ideal Girlfriend:

I would like my girlfriend to be pretty and to not be jealous. I would like her to be:

• Respectful: She respects the people I love.
• Full of smiles: She has a smile everyday and makes you feel good.
• Loving: She hugs me and kisses me.
• Good: She greets everyone and doesn’t treat others poorly.
• Not envious: She isn’t envious of anything or anyone.

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I would like my girlfriend to:

• Be good and understand me.
• Love me in the good and the bad.
• Be sincere.
• Respect me.

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I would like my girlfriend to be sincere so that we can live with love. I would also like her to be nice to my friends and family. Also, she should understand me.

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I want a girlfriend who loves me and shows me her love everyday. She should not only focus on my negative side but should strengthen my positive side. She should not make me want to leave her. That would be the ideal!

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I would like a girlfriend who is faithful and able to understand all my ideas and goals. At the least, she should be affectionate and, most importantly, I need her to support my decisions. Beauty is not that important; I only want to find a good person who is sincere, knows how to take care of me, appreciates what I have, and that there are no lies between us. I hope that there isn’t deception in our relationship and that we can move forward together.

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My girlfriend should be sincere because she should be important and she should be sincere with me. Also, she should be intelligent because she should think about everything that she does. She should be humble, sincere, and have inner beauty. I should be able to understand her and she should understand me. And, most important, she should love me.

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I would like my girlfriend to be:

• Smart: because I want her to be someone important.
• Nice: because I want her to have a good temperament.
• Honest: because I don’t want her to lie to me.
• Respectful: because I want her to have a good heart.
• …however I think such a person doesn’t exist.

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I would like my girlfriend to be the women of my life, the hope of my heart. I would like her to be respectful, friendly, loving, and smart. I would like her to love me with all her heart.

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My ideal girlfriend:

1. Is sincere and natural and don’t use a lot of makeup.
2. Respects me.
3. Accepts me how I am.
4. Understands, even when I don’t understand myself.
5. Is friendly with my family and me.
6. Is proud of our relationship.

Ideal Boyfriend:

I would like my boyfriend to be a good man that likes to work and is responsible. I would like him to respect me, take of me, and really love me. Most important, I would like him to be honest with me and at the same time respect my space. I would like him to understand me and to be happy to be by my side. (I don’t think this exists, but it is my dream).

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I would like my boyfriend to be loving and sweet.

• Responsible and hardworking.
• Faithful and he shouldn’t hide anything from me.
• NOT BE JEALOUS…a mission impossible.
• Lastly, I don’t want him to ask me to take a test of love, but I would like him to love me.

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I would like my boyfriend to be:

1. Respectful in many ways and to not teat me badly.
2. Faithful: I want my boyfriend to really love me and not play with my feelings.
3. Not have bad thoughts; I want him to confide in me.
4. With me always and to be happy.

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I would like my boyfriend to be:

• Detail-oriented: With me and to value the good moments we have together.
• Understanding: He should understand me and support me in my moments of need.
• Hard working: He should work so he can cover his own expenses and not depend on me.
• Neat: He should take care of himself and think about his physical appearance.
• Attentive: He should think about everything he does.

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I would like my boyfriend to be:

• Polite: He should be a courteous person, for example he should be polite when in interacts with my family.
• Respectful: I would like him to respect me even when I don’t agree with him. I would like him to respect what I think.
• Loving: He should be the person at my side and be tender. I would like us to love each other and for him to feel the same about me as I do about him. He should not play with my feelings.
• Honorable: He should be hard working and he should study so he can be an important person in life.

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I would like my boyfriend to be:

• Understanding: So that I can share my problems with him. It’s important that he is my friend and knows my shortcomings and likes.
• Respectful and respect me: He should respect my decisions and always tell me the truth.
• Loving: He should treat me with love. He should talk to me calmly and not feel the need to yell.
• Friendly: He should be friendly with my family, my friends, and me.
• Above all, he should trust me, be sincere. He should tell me what he likes and doesn’t like. He should be fun.

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I would like my boyfriend to be respectful, humble, understanding, detail-oriented, charismatic, and loving.

• Respectful: When we are together and when we are apart.
• Humble: He shouldn’t have an ego and material things don’t have to be important to him.
• Understanding: When I share problems with him, he can understand me.
• Detail-oriented: He should take note of the little things because it’s the little things that make a relationship have invaluable moments.
• Charismatic: He should have a sense of humor and make me smile when I’m angry or in a bad mood.
• Loving: He should show me that he loves me with a hug, a look, and his words.

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I would like my boyfriend to be humble, respectful, hard working, detail-oriented, loving, smart, and sincere.

• Respectful: When we are together and when we are apart.
• Hard working: So that in the future we don’t lack anything.
• Detail-oriented: He should notice the gifts we have because that is important in a relationship.
• Loving: When he is with me he should treat me with love.
• Smart: So that we can come out ahead.
• Sincere: So that the relationship that we have grows every day and more importantly, so we don’t have problems.

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I would like my boyfriend to be:

• Intelligent: Because I like to interact with people who are able to understand what we are doing.
• Loving: Because I am loving. I would like him to spoil me with nice words and kisses.
• Understanding: Because sometimes I need time to do my own things.
• Loyal: Because I want a stable relationship without a third person between us.
• Handsome: Because I like people who take care of themselves.
• Visionary: Because I want him to think about what our life will be like in the future.
• Hard Working: Because I don’t like having needs.

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I would like my boyfriend to be sincere, loving, faithful, and understanding. Above all, he is always with me in the bad moments and in good moments. I don’t care if he is handsome because beauty isn’t important. What’s important is that he loves me, because love doesn’t have to do with looks. The End.

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I would like my boyfriend to be good, respectful, and treat me well; I want him to be with me in the good and the bad; to be loving, honest, and understanding; I want him to love me for who I am.

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I would like my boyfriend to never lie to me and to be a good man in every way; I want to like what he does and for him to support me in my decisions. Examples: He isn’t unfaithful in whatever part of the world. He is honest, handsome, good, kind, and loving, etc.

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I would like my boyfriend to be:

• Respectful: To respect my privacy, my likes, my habits, and to accept my family and friends.
• Understanding: He understands that sometimes I can’t do or give him what he wants. Example: To go out with him at night.
• Faithful: That he doesn’t cheat on me.
• Detail-Oriented: That he does things to show me that he loves me.
• Real: That he does not pretend be is something he isn’t.

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My boyfriend ideal is:

• Respectful: He respects me every moment.
• Understanding: He always understands me and when I have a problem he supports me.
• Faithful: He is faithful to me every moment.
• Detail-Oriented: He always pays attention to the details.
• Loving: That every time I am with him he gives me his love.
• Beautiful: That he is beautiful in every sense of the word.

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I would like me boyfriend to be faithful and to understand my ideas and goals. At least, he should give me affection. More than anything, I need him to support my decisions. He should not seek beauty too much. I just want to find a good person who is sincere and will take care of and appreciate what we have. I hope that he doesn’t deceive me and that our relationship is one that will last.