Beauty and the Beast
We have already discussed the situation implying female beauty which is all around, beauty which is sort of 'contagious' i.e. easily 'spreads' on a person you love as well. And that, in its turn results in you two being one of the best-looking couples ever.
Now let's switch to a less harmonious combination which suggests a beautiful lady dating or living with an average or a highly below average man. He may be much older than her, slightly balding, with a considerable beer belly and a few extra pounds elsewhere. Although he may be of her age and just not too handsome, it all depends on a situation, and, as you know each and every situation is very individual and characterized by its own peculiarities.
What are possible reasons for such a disharmonious unity? In other words, what makes beautiful women go out with below average if not ugly men? What makes them overlook all those male visual imperfections or maybe just put up with them? Do these mysterious beauties who have chosen unhandsome men as their soulmates appreciate their spiritual qualities greatly instead of their looks or maybe our gorgeous ladies have certain mysteriously hidden more pragmatic and materialistic motives?
The situations are indeed very different.
Of course, if you see a beautiful young lady with a middle-aged (half-)bald saddo you start having certain suspicions regarding the sincerity of the girl's feelings towards the man. Especially if you know that he has a lot of money, a huge mansion and myriad of splendid opportunities (on his credit card) to travel around the world all the year round. In this very case, most likely beautiful ladies (who as usual have very aesthetic taste regarding men's looks as well) prefer to choose a credit card rather than looks, muscles, face, style, youth or anything aesthetically else.
However, there are rare cases when beautiful ladies get used to their sugar daddies and start viewing them as quite smart and gallant men (if they really are smart and gallant that is). They begin appreciating them and it gets much easier for them to put up with certain 'beer-bellied' imperfect inconveniences. These situations are quite rare and most likely happen within couples where both a man and a woman are wise and non-superficial enough to appreciate anything more than a young body or lots of cash respectively.
There are cases which are even more rare than the previously dwelled upon one. That's when a Beauty chooses her Beast purely on mutually spiritually appealing basis. In other words, she's with him because she is truly into him irrespective of his unappealing appearance, possible too-old-for-her age factor, possible beer belly and other things that sound quite surreally wrong to others. She loves him for his personality, for his intelligence and decency. She respects him and cherishes him, and nobody else but he can believe it. Because a 'normal' person (a normal hot chick) usually never falls for an unworthy man just like that, without any possible materialistic reasons, they reckon.
They are right mostly, because these cases are exceptions rather than rules. In any case, such unions shouldn't be treated skeptically or sarcastically, for it's all good as long as people are truly into each other irrespective of possible motives or certain goals which are quite natural by the way.