This isn't about lowering standards, it's about finding a great woman in your life.
The trouble is that your idea of a great woman is something you see as 'fixed' and anyone else other than the idea is 'lowering standards'.
The best person for you may be different from your ideal.
Reframe so that your choices are more flexible and that's not lowering your standards, that's looking for love in more places.
As yet I am not ready to date and thus I don't go out to the places I will meet someone appropriate, don't go online and thus as a result I am not going to meet someone new. My heart isn't open to even light casual dating. I am bruised battered and needing healing. My ex looks happy with his RIT, he moved on easily whilst I haven't. Maybe I never will be ready and I prepared to accept this as a consequence of a very damaging R.
We will see, perhaps I can be in an R again.
All I see is happy couples too, and I know things aren't as they seem in life.
V
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose. V 64, WAW