Taylor Swift Admitted a Sense of Humor ‘Doesn’t Matter’ to Her in Relationships

For years, Taylor Swift’s romantic relationships have played out in the public eye. Her dating life and, now, engagement, has always made headlines. Likely because of this, Swift often fields questions about what she wants from a relationship. She said happiness was her main goal, and traits like a sense of humor didn’t matter to her.

Taylor Swift said she doesn’t take a sense of humor into consideration in a relationship

Swift is currently engaged to Travis Kelce. When she was still on the dating market, though, she said the only thing she was looking for in a relationship was someone to make her happy. When asked if a sense of humor mattered to her, she said that it didn’t.

“It doesn’t matter,” she told Cosmopolitan in 2012. “Happy is important.”

Swift said she’d had enough relationships that made her unhappy. She wanted to find a partner who would make her life brighter.

“I want my relationship to live in the light and not in the dark,” she explained. “I’ve had a lot of dark and twisty situations happen, enough to realize that when someone exhibits signs of evoking a dark and twisty relationship and dark and twisty feelings, it’s not interesting to me.”

At the time of the interview, Swift was in a short-lived relationship with Harry Styles.

Taylor Swift shared what she looks for in a relationship

When dating, Swift said she knew a relationship would work based on what she wanted from her partner.

“I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more,” she said. “When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they’re going home?”

She also didn’t want a drawn-out courting process. Swift said she wanted to see someone and know immediately that she wanted them.

“I need that unexplainable spark,” she said. “I know people who have been friends for months and he liked her more than she liked him, then she decided she liked him … That happens and people have amazing relationships that way. I just need to see someone and feel, Oh, no, uh-oh. It’s only happened a few times in my life, but I feel like if I was gonna be with someone forever, it would be because I saw them and thought, Oh, no.”

She said she didn’t want to do much anticipatory wedding planning 

Swift is currently planning a wedding with Kelce. Before her engagement, she said she didn’t think much about her future wedding. She didn’t think this would be fair to a future partner.

“I want to build a life with someone that’s based on their dreams as well as my dreams,” she said. “I don’t want it to just be like, ‘So, I have a scrapbook. In it, I put all the fabric swatches of the wedding dress I’m going to wear. I also have a tuxedo I picked out of a catalog that you’ll wear. Then approximately nine and a half years into our dating, we will be on our second child, and we will send him to preschool here. Don’t worry, I planned it all out for you!’ I don’t want him to wonder if it even matters if he’s there.”

Swift and Kelce have reportedly spent time enjoying their engagement before jumping into wedding planning.