Los Angeles, September 4, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Music producer and songwriter Benny Blanco has revealed that he once created a checklist with his therapist outlining the qualities he wanted in an ideal life partner, well before he fell in love with singer-actress Selena Gomez.
Blanco, 38, made the revelation during an appearance on The Mel Robbins Podcast. He said he had sought his therapist’s guidance after feeling he was struggling to find someone with whom he could spend the rest of his life.
“I really wanna find the right partner, and I’m doing something wrong. I can’t find the person that I’m gonna spend the rest of my life with,” Blanco recalled telling his therapist.
The first quality on his list was that the person should be “age-appropriate”. He then identified kindness and compassion as other important qualities.
Blanco said he wanted someone who was caring and actively worked on their own wellbeing when facing difficulties. He cited examples such as going to therapy, taking medication when necessary or practising yoga.
He stressed that the list was not about highly specific physical characteristics, joking that it did not contain requirements as unusual as wanting one toe to be longer than another.
Instead, he said the checklist focused on broad qualities and that if a potential partner did not meet the first five or six criteria, he would not pursue the relationship.
Blanco and Gomez began dating publicly in December 2023 and announced their engagement a year later. The couple married in California in September 2025.
The Grammy-nominated producer has worked extensively in the music industry, while Gomez has built a career spanning music, acting and television.
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