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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, I'm one of those pretentious intellectual guys.  I think you can overcome this, if you all have some shared interests - you don't have to both be into the same stuff all the time.  As other people said, you don't have to be into exactly that stuff, it's not a competition.

But you have to be OK with it - not feeling insecure or jealous.  I had a passionate relationship with someone who was not an 'intellectual' (she was highly intelligent) but one of the things that eventually wrecked us was this issue - her feeling insecure and inadequate.  The reverse snobbery chip on her shoulder got in the way of everything and I had to walk on eggshells about that (among many things).

Generally, it really helps to have a similar set of interests and education.  One of the best conversation partners I had was a lovely woman who is a philosophy professor - we actually did talk about Hume and Locke a lot in the couple of months we dated.  [/quote]

+1 My husband is hyper intellectual about art, economics, mathematics. I work in public relations so I'm intellectual about people, what makes them tick, and how to influence them. We made it work by each taking the "student" rule with each other. We're both confident about our capabilities so we never felt inferior to other. We share our interests with each other and learn together. We both have a great time with it. Frankly, our attitudes towards each other and our partnership engendered tremendous personal and professional growth.

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