Interracial Infatuation is Normal for Many People, but it in Itself Doesn't Substantiate a Quality Relationship

*****Note: This particular topic is geared towards those interested in or active in interracial relationships so what I'm presenting here might be of no interest to many readers.

It's been my experience that many online interracial romance forums don't tend to nurture the various facets that I personally believe substantiate a quality and successful relationship. My online interracial participation as been primarily with Black Women and White Men forums where you're often confronted with questions such as:

-Why are you attracted to Black Women or White Men?

-What is it about another race that inspires your interracial dating interests?

-Why are so many white men and black women so afraid to approach each other?

-What kinds of problems have you experienced with your interracial dating interests?

The most recent of these questions I've come across is; at what point in your life did you realize that you were interested in white men or black women? Because of how I tend to regard everyone as an individual, regardless of age, race and/or ethnicity, questions like these actually seem quite unimportant and distracting to me.

The kind of realization I had wasn't necessarily that my attractions weren't limited by race and ethnicity, but the fact that many people actually had specific reasons to be attracted across racial lines to begin with. Some reasons were sincere while other reasons were so disingenuous that I found myself completely disgusted with many peoples' behavior.

I was a really stupid kid (and now, probably a stupider adult), and when I found myself attracted to someone, ANYONE, I didn't acknowledge certain things like whether or not they were the same or mixed race or ethnicity as me. They were simply an individual with whom I had interests in.