I used to eat my steak medium/medium-well, and then the first Christmas I spent with DH (then BF), his brother made a rare prime rib and insisted I try a bite....changed my life, or at least my steak-eating habits. I usually go rare or medium-rare now, depending on where I am.

*I had a friend in HS who's mother would always send her steak back and ask for it "burned".