I'm the same height and I've only known one woman taller than me, but then I do live in a nation of relatively short people.

It would be awkward, but it seems kinda minor. Allthough I am kinda tall so wouldnt have toworry about it, I knew like 2 girls taller than me.
Only if its something like http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7QzRazgeJNhKvANlL2RHwW82U-dQ-giCsjiX62x66Ki5CvuzQ would it be a problem.

@Turns The UK is short ? I am 17 about 6,1. So are lots of people my age one guy has to be like 6,8 or something.

ALL the men I dated were taller than me. So what? I'm fun sized, they were king sized.
Why in the hell should it matter if one partner is taller than the other?
What matters is that you are compatible mentally, emotionally, and pyschologically.
Unlike insecure males, it didn't bother me to date anyone taller than me.

Well maybe not very short, but the vast bulk of the population is shorter than me, if not by much. The national average is 5'10 for men, and 5'4 for women, so it matches my experience that men taller than me is uncommon if not exactly rare, while women are generally quite shorter than me.

It was ok for you because you're a girl... there stigma is attached when the girl is taller then the guy, it's viewed pretty normally when a girl is shorter. I didn't really date but I had a thing with a girl that was around my height, maybe a bit taller (depended on who was slumped at the time) and I was ok with it. My friends didn't beak too much either, but I can understand, especially at a younger age (14-17) that if your friends are constantly beaking you about being shorter, its hard to stay in that relationship. I have no idea how old op is, but it seemed like the older you get the less people care about stuff like that.

I'm a little over 6'2 (1.895 meters), too, and the 'problem' of taller women hasn't come up yet. I imagine it'd be better for one's neck .


I know a seventeen year old chick who is... *thinks* uh, much shorter than me. 'Bout the same size or shorter than her 14, 15(?) year old sister. Anyway, her hands and feet are about half the size of mine. And I'm not exaggerating. That sort of size difference would be more of an issue, methinks.

Just let your brother go on more business trips.

Yes. Tall women deserve no love, and to be treated as outcasts!

I'm sorry, but that's the biggest load of horse[censored] to say that women are unnaceptable if they are taller than the guy.
I'd love to be tall. I could reach cabinets, pregnancy would have been easier, I could see over people's heads in the theatre....I envy tall women.
Any one so insecure as to have their self worth challenged by the height of their SO isn't worth dating.

As for many of my paramours, they completely dwarfed me. My hands were three or four sizes smaller than theirs. Every single person I dated has been taller than me. Even my gimped crippled husband is taller than me, his hands are much bigger than mine.

I've no experience with either end of the spectrum, but I think I'd feel the same way. I'm interested in people, not heights. I'm honest enough that I'll admit looks matter, and that fatness is a definitely a turnoff, so it should be believable when I say beauty is independent of height.

I can't think of any really problems involved in hooking up with someone taller than me (it feeling strange would probably pass), but one potential concern does occur to me regarding much smaller partners. Its kinda the inverse of a bloke you mentioned a while back, Mamagato: people seeing me with a 'child' and misjudging me/the relationship. Obviously, this would only be an issue with a fraction of the fraction of unusually small women, but its for the sake of comparison :shrug:.

I dated someone like this once. Those were actually our exact heights. It went very well for a few months, and then she went crazy. Like, clinically insane. She was great in the sack though... Good times...

I've never been out with a woman who was taller than me when she's wearing her heels. I don't want to peer under the bedcovers and see feet bigger than mine.

Meh, trying being a girl and going out with a guy who's not only shorter than you by a clear foot, but also has feet four sizes smaller.

I'm 6 ft 3 barefoot and with size 11 (US13) feet. :shrug:

What is frequently overlooked and ignored is that partners need to be "compatible" physically as well. If one is not physically attracted to the other it can't work well, which means that if someone's height is off-putting to his/her prospective partner it won't work well, regardless of what you think about the person who is put off by the other's height.

I'm pretty damn tall but I still prefer my girls under 5'10"

I think if height of women really mattered that much to men, Agyness Deyn would be shunned while everyone drooled over Alizee.

Oh wait...

Oh yeah, I did unfortunatley date a fellow who liked me because I was so small. The creep. I can definetly see why you would want to be cautious there.
Gotta admit, it bothered me to the point I began to wonder what was going through the minds of all the men I had been with.
Did they like me for me, or was it the potential closet pedo?
Ahh, to be a tall, willowy female ......

Indeed.

Did you just...

Depends on what you mean by "you".

I don't believe he ever said girls taller than him are unacceptable. Just that his friends made fun of him for dating a girl the same height. And then those are strange friends. Who knows. I've never known anyone to ridicule someone for the height of the person they're in a relationship with. I've actually seen my fair share of guys who only date petite little girls and who only date women who dwarf them. That's a bit extreme. No one should really be automatically excluded because of a fetish.

Anyway, I'm 5'6", placing me at normal height. And I must say, I really enjoy the 7" height difference between g-ranger and myself. Something I value in a relationship is security, and I feel that in a small, dumb way, I get that through him being larger and older than me. But he doesn't have it all; our hands are exactly the same size 'cause I have big hands. If he were the same height as or shorter than me, I would find it a bit weird, but I would love him nonetheless. That's what works for me. People have their own little dumb turn-ons and turn-offs. I can't stand long or dirty nails, or overly thin guys, for example. So long as you don't play Jason Alexander in Shallow Hall, all should be well.

Damn those preferences for physical attributes! How dare they! Men! Ugh!

For those of us who are uncultured yanks these are very obscure references.

I take it one of them is tall and the other is short?

I have to admit that's a rather silly and self-conflicting question. Your physical attributes are a part of what makes you "you", therefore if someone likes you because of your height or some other physical attribute of yours they don't like you any less for "you" than if they liked you because of some emotional/psychological attribute of yours.

I know, right? I realize and accept I have a personality and an appearance that appeals to a select few. People have said I'm always negative (I'm not), I'm so angry, too opinionated, too pale, etc. And I don't care. A lot of the guys I know will date nothing but petite blonde girls with a cookie-coutout of a personality. But do I care? No. Why don't I care? Because they can all svck it only one man's opinion matters to me? Yes. They'll be happy with their vapid queens and I'll be happy with my own pale, opinionated ninny.

I just call myself an acquired taste.