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When it comes to dating, I must confess that I barely have a single idea of what I am looking for in a man. I do not have a list of every quality my ideal man should posses. I have not narrowed down my candidate pool to gentlemen of a certain type. And were you to hand me a stack of resumes which included the man I will one day marry, I probably would not be able to pick him out.

Sounds like a recipe for dating too many of the wrong guys, staying with all the wrong guys for too long, and missing all the right ones every time they come near? Believe me, that fear has crossed my mind. It sounds something like "doomed to never find a guy even close to being right for me due to utter cluelessness." But last month when I decided to join an online dating site, and the other day as I watched What Happens in Vegas, it struck me that I do have an idea, albeit quite vague, and that that idea is not only okay, but maybe even better than the most detailed list I could ever come up with.

As I said in response to a question about what I am looking for in a potential partner, I am looking for someone who brings out the best in me, and someone in whom I bring out the best. As one of the gentleman I am currently getting to know said, he is looking for someone who makes him feel like he can do anything. And as I watched Ashton Kutcher's Jack Fuller and Cameron Diaz's Joy McNally go from hostile Vegas newlyweds to loving couple, it made me smile to see that those same thoughts were very much at the center of their journey to discovering their perfect partner also.

The story of What Happens in Vegas pretty much goes like this: Joy gets dumped by her longtime boyfriend and fiancè. Jack gets fired from the family business by his father. Both go to Vegas for the weekend to blow off some steam. Fate brings them together, drunkenness gets them hitched, and before they have a chance to undo what has been done, they win a 3 million dollar jackpot together.

Jump to a New York City courtroom where a judge hands them a wedding license instead of an annulment, denies their divorce, and refuses to award either one the money until they have tried to make their marriage work for at least six months. At first, the plan is to stick it through. But when both realize that they can get all the money if only they get the other to back out, the game changes. In the scenes that follow, the battle to break the other wages much like How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (except that both parties are aware of the exact nature of the war they are waging). And in a similar fashion, even as their sabotage tactics keep raising the bar higher and higher, the depth they go to to hit hard actually ends up drawing them together instead of driving them apart.

When we first meet Jack and Joy at the beginning of the movie, the message is that they are complete opposites. As Jack's "lady friend" says, he's not serious boyfriend or husband material. As Joy's fiancè implies, she's pretty much too serious of girlfriend or wife material. As Jack's dad says, he's too busy being the life of the party to ever be anyone's boss. And as Joy shows us, she's too busy bossing every single aspect of her life around to be the life of any party.

But even at the beginning of the movie, in a few moments between the time Vegas takes over and all sense goes out the door, both Jack and Joy reveal that neither of them is exactly happy with those pictures of themselves. "It's like you're trying to come in first, but it's someone else's race&ellips; You've never felt good enough so you just took yourself out of the game," say the pair to each other. And as the story unfolds and the two get to know each other better, we too come to see that those realities are not only central to what holds each of them back, but have only been perpetuated by the major relationships in their lives.

For Jack, the constant criticism and disapproval of his father has essentially told him that he will never be successful at anything. For Joy, the sense that she was never good enough for her boyfriend Mason (Jason Sudeiks) causes her to live in a constant state of trying to be someone she is not. Since Jack assumes he will fail, he just gives up instead. And since Joy spends so much time trying to be, it is as if she doesn't even know what it means to just be herself.

But even though the two probably would not have picked each other out from a crowd as the man or woman who would be their perfect counterpart, they end up being just that. As their court-appointed marriage counselor (Queen Latifah) tells the judge, as individuals they definitely have some issues, but together they are the real thing. Jack ends up being the only man around to whom Joy becomes her true self. And for Jack, it is nothing other than knowing that Joy is betting on him that makes him want to bet on himself.

As I consider my own dating prospects, I know that there are no perfect men out there. I know that I will never be the perfect woman. But I still believe that there is such a thing as a perfect match. A match that is not about two perfect individuals, but instead two imperfect people who love each other despite their flaws and help each other to rise above them every day. A bond that realizes it will face struggles and challenges, but deems its union worthy of seeing it through. And a pair that does not just find their inspiration for love on the inside of a Hallmark Card, but instead within the love showered upon us daily by the only perfect partner there is.

Consider this: not only does God know every detail of who we are, He created us to be that way, and He saw that it was good. Not only does God know every failure on our record, He knows ever misstep we keep hidden, and He still loves us. Not only does He tell us stories about how much we mean to Him, He bet his own life on ours that we might see how much He truly wants us to live. And if that doesn't make you believe that the best we will ever be lies firmly in the hands of love, then I don't know what will.