My wife and I agreed that one of the qualities we liked about each other was our independence and self-reliance (after two divorces for her, a divorce and an imploded relationship for me). We didn’t have to rely on each other. (We did, before long, and we definitely do now, but we didn’t HAVE to, initially.)
And Jim Finn is correct about lightning romance. Deb and I went from “I’m alone, fine, whatever!” to meeting each other to first date to engaged to married in nine months. That was almost 25 years ago. So you never know.
But yes, if they don’t like dogs, they are definitely not a keeper! 😉