And, well, everything in life is potentially value-corrupting, or value-improving, depending on whether you judge from your past self’s or present self’s point of view. I think the more experience you have in dating, the better judgement you can make about what makes you happy. And if a girl seduced you with great sex, that’s a predictor of a good relationship, don’t see anything illegitimate about that. There are known failure modes in relationships: you don’t want to end up with an abuser, an alcoholic or a drug addict. If you’re not in one of these, it’s probably fine. From personal experience, I married a man with a lower IQ, and I’m happy.
Lewak et al (1985) studied 81 couples and found no correlation between IQ and marital satisfation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0191886985901400
And, well, everything in life is potentially value-corrupting, or value-improving, depending on whether you judge from your past self’s or present self’s point of view. I think the more experience you have in dating, the better judgement you can make about what makes you happy. And if a girl seduced you with great sex, that’s a predictor of a good relationship, don’t see anything illegitimate about that. There are known failure modes in relationships: you don’t want to end up with an abuser, an alcoholic or a drug addict. If you’re not in one of these, it’s probably fine. From personal experience, I married a man with a lower IQ, and I’m happy.