1 they live in completely different places 2 they are from different time periods 3 they werent looking 4 they where looking, but just as they where about to meet, one dropped something, and while picking it up, missed the other 5 the weird need life seems to have of making good things go bad

it is not uncommeon for me to meet people that could concevebly be perfect without engaging them long enough to find we have shared interests. And that's just the people I meet. Or I was late, early, in the wrong town, county, state, wrong country, or wrong continent.

I think we all have biases, preferences no matter how shallow they are that make most people blind to what should be obvious and what's right in front of them. I also think most people don't know how to find real happiness.

People are not always attrqacted to persons who are right or good for them. I think it is a part of evolution at work making us attracted to persons not right for us just to help mix up the gene pool.

I wonder if it's distance? I'm in the middle of nowhere, according to most people.

The same reason you can never find the missing sock.

Nature does not provide for "perfect for one another." Nature only provides for sexaul attraction. If they are not mutually attracted, then they are not perfect for one another. If they are, things usually begin to happen. I am drawing the inferance from the above post that someone has set his eyes for someone who is not returning his interest.

In my case I met 3 intelligent women, one was schizophrenic,(she's in a locked down ALF ), another was into woo-woo medicine and spirit guides and one told me she worked as a pet psychic (dead ones). The last one always seemed to agree with me, cold reading? I may have a sign I can't see, " hey I'm attracted to women who are intelligent and into strange shit", I guess.

Because every time one of us thought we found each other, there are things that get in the way. 4x, including twice the guy thought I was perfect for him.

P couldn't leave northern California and I can't leave Arizona.
C is too busy being a community organizer to have time for a relationship.
A gave in to family pressure and married a woman from his home culture.
D is obsessed over appearances, and I don't fit in his life.

Time displacement, Location Displacement.