I know there's much better places to ask these kind of questions, but since the people here are very intelligent and unbias, I might as well ask here. I'm a 15 yr. old guy, and I'm only 5'1". Recently, after being interested in a girl who is 5'10", I've begun to feel bad about my height, especially when she said "If only you were taller..." I, personally, don't think it's fair for some girls to be so shallow as to not date a guy shorter than them. And as you can imagine, I'm shorter than alot of girls at this age and probably always will be, seeing as my whole family is around 5'4"-5'7". Anyway, I'd like to get some opinions on the matter from males and females, even though there's MUCH less women on this forum. For the guys, have you ever dated a taller woman? And for the gals, have you ever dated a shorter man?

When I was 15 (~2 years ago) I was about 5'7" (I'm 5'11" now). I dated a 18 year old girl who was about 5'11". It was kind of awkward at first, but height didn't really get in the way of our relationship. The only thing that did was her turning out to be a backstabbing [censored]. (No offense to all you ladies out there)

I see a lot of people put emphasis on height when it comes to relationships, which can be quite annoying. I'm only around 5'7" or 5'8" and most girls I see seem to be taller than that. My friend, who is female, is only about 5'5" or so, and she only seems to be attracted to tall guys, like at least 6'. I guess it's just a preference thing, I personally wouldn't want to date a girl that is way taller than me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zPuXpdAIg

Just ask her out

Yes but I'm 5'1".

I once dated a much, much taller girl (she was a basketball player from Brazil), and we had fun, certainly height was not a problem for us.

I'm 5'9, which I consider to be about average. Personally, I have absolutely no problem dating taller or shorter girls. One of my buddies, however, has a serious issue with this, where every single girl he even considers dating must be several inches shorter than him.

In general, most girls find height to be a very attractive attribute, but there are many other attractive qualities beside height.

@OP, if you are 5'1" I would suggest you develop your approach for dating taller girls, otherwise your dating pool will be extremely limited.

I know, but I get really jealous of those 6' guys who date shorter girls. Women are supposed to be smaller. We are not reptilian. In my case, it's opposite. Sometimes I wonder if I even haave the capabilty of being hot, instead of "cute" or "adorable".

And I don't have a problen dating taller girls. It's that taller girls have a problem dating me, and I'm afraid we as a couple look weird in public if I'm shorter.

I've never really dated any woman taller than myself, even though I'm only 5'11.

It's pretty usual for people who measure themselves up against others (god knows how often people do in other areas), but part of growing up is realizing that you simply go out and put out an effort to get what you want, instead of just thinking about it, the latter of which will result in far more disappointments than successes. Some women do care about height, some don't, there's no way anyone here would know whether or not this one in particular will or won't, you just have to either be one of those go-getters who attempts, i.e. "ask her", or one of those timid people who spends his time wondering what he could have. Short men exist, and do just fine in society. For those women who tow the line between "care" and "not care", in all likelihood, someone's comfortability with their self can be a definitive answer. Far more women are attracted to confident guys than one who's too afraid of asking a woman because he feels he's too short and cares about what everyone else thinks.

Hey "adorable" and "cute" get you chicks too

Not all chicks are looking for the 6'1" beefed up sun tanned ass wipe of a guy, and the ones that aren't looking for those kind of guys are the ones to need to get with if your serious about a relationship.

Only 5'11"?! That's taller than average!

You have no idea how much wisdom is in that line right there. I used to be the timid guy who always thought "wtf were you doing you should have said something" or "Dude!?!? what!?!? why didn't you just ask her out man!?"

Then I went clubbing for my first time..... :rock: Which almost requires you to ask random girls that you don't know to get in quite sixual positions with you and rub all over each other. Try it, it does wonders for your confidence

I mean, I'm smarter than average and more athletic than average, and people say I'm good-looking, but it can't do a damn thing if a girl won't accept my height.

Honestly, a lot of 15 year old girls won't date a shorter guy just because other, more immature kids are going to look at it as weird, and they don't want to have to deal with that. When I was around 15, I dated a girl that was only 4'8, and wasn't going to get any taller (technically a midget). That was part of the reason I ended up breaking up with her. Now that I'm older, though, I really regret doing that. Just wait, once you get a bit older, I'm sure you'll find plenty of girls who don't let height bother them.

And I've already kissed 2 girls. One who was shorter and one who was much taller. The shorter one would be perfect except for she mislead me and she is a [censored] [censored]. My confidence has been raised and asking girls out and such, but it's my fear of rejection just becsuse of my height is what gets to me.

Lucky bastard. <_<

I'm 6'7" and HATE it. I have to duck through most doors, I can barely fit in most cars with either my head or knees touching, and to add insult to injury, I can't ride most rides at amusemant parks.

Amusemant parks are NOT amusing when you can't do anything at them.

Oh, and: *Insert lewd comment about height here*

With that attitude you're never going to get a girl that's a bit taller than you. From my past experiences if your confident and and just disregard any worries or thoughts that are holding you back then you'll do just fine. Just go for it man and see what happens, and that's a general rule whenever approaching a girl is involved. It's better to say "Wow I just [censored] up haha." than sitting in a corner facepalming yourself because you didn't know if she'd say yes or no.

Dunno my specific height but I'm a only a few inches taller than 5 foot, and I'm 22 years old.

Really? That makes me feel alittle better.

@aSaPp!5@, yeah good point. I have to be daring I guess.

Thanks for your help, guys. Waiting it out until I'm older seems promising, but for now I'll be trying to be more confident about my height.

Bedtime.

If she's saying she won't date you because you're too short, then move on. Screw her ( eh, guess you never will ) and find a new girl.

Sadly, it does. At 5' 7, I'm short enough that I've had my share of being made fun of and having numerous girls bring it up as an issue.

I'm also 100% certain that my life would, in general, be easier, if I was 3-4 inches taller.

Most will view you as more powerful. I read a research paper some time ago stating that people view short men with taller women as having a powerful or commanding presence, something about the confudence of being short whith a tall girl, I don't remember much of it

Consider this. It does not seem to be her personality that makes you be interested in her given how you dislike her views and how you say you have kissed two other girls yet you're only 15 and you don't seem too choked up about losing those two. Yet you're finding it unfair that she′s judging your worth by your physique.

You seem a little confused as to what kind of a relationship you are looking for, you play yourself off as seeking a bit more of a mature relationship but betray yourself with your own words, making yourself seem the same as many other "above average" teenagers your age who are but exactly looking for shallow relationships where it is the number of relationships but not the sincerity of them that counts.

If it's a short and sweet relationship you're after you can't find it unfair that you're being judged by your physique, it's just a part of the matching game of looks. But if it's a relationship with depth that you're looking for, a girl isn't going to care about your physique, so no worries there.

So does height matter ? Yes and no. It does in one of the two before mentioned cases but it doesn't in the other. And even then in the former case it differs between each person what is important so even there you don't have to worry about your height. Women who don't like short guys just aren't going to date you but there will be plenty of other pretty girls who may find some other physical trait to be more important so I′d just move on and look for other girls.

Just my 2 cents.

Unfortunately, I'm almost twenty and still only around 5'3" (maybe 4" by now) and I'm pretty much done growing, I'm afraid -- curse you, short parents! I have the same problem. It's not that I absolutely wouldn't date a girl taller than me, but I can't say it wouldn't feel strange. I've found myself being interested in a lot of girls throughout the years only to write many of them off as simply being too tall for me (if I can't kiss you without standing on my damn toes, you're too tall). Fortunately, I found just the perfect one!