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Jim

45 years old,

Marketing

 

 

1.         What is it about being in a relationship that you love?

       Having someone to share the ups and downs with

       Having someone who is there on good days and bad days

       Having someone to be close to

       Sharing life experiences

 

2.         What do you most fear about being in a relationship?

       Having my heart broken

       Expectations not being met and dealing with disappointment

       Letting myself go and ending up hurt

 

3.         What are your must haves in a relationship?      

       Someone who is open

       Acceptance

       Height-I am 6’ so a tall woman is preferred

 

4.         What are your deal breakers?

       Being demanded of

 

5.         What do you wish women knew about men?

       We are really that simple

       We have feeling

       We are vulnerable too

       We don’t know, what women know

 

6.         What are your top three priorities in your life today?

       My children

       My career

       My motorcycle

 

7.         What do you wish you knew about women?

       What in the world are they thinking?

 

8.         What question are you happy I didn’t ask?

       Are you bald?

 

9.         What is the most valuable lesson you have learned from your past relationships?

       To be honest

 

 

10.       What are you committed to having in your next relationship?

       Openness to the greatness and the pain-all of it, can’t have one without the other

       Listening and being heard

 

11.       What do you feel you bring to a relationship?

       A great sense of humor

       I don’t really know

 

12.       If you were to create your ideal woman, what would she be like?

       Kind

       Caring

       Have a great sense of humor

       She would be nice

       Tall would be great

       Hot

 

13.       What complaints do you have about women in general?

       Not a whole lot

       They are judgmental

       They are harder on themselves than they need to be

 

14.       What do you appreciate about women in general?

       Their kindness

       Their chattiness

       That they are loving

       Their nurturing ways

       They are pretty

       The softness of their skin

 

15.       What are your views on dating?

       I am for it, although, I haven’t had much experience. My wife and I are in the process of getting divorced.

       At forty-eight, I am afraid of it in some ways

       I wish women who take more initiative when is comes to dating

 

16.       What are your views on monogamy?

       It is necessary in a committed relationship

 

17.       What are your views on marriage?

       What can I say, I am the marrying kind. And in my past dating experience, I dated only one girl at a time.

       There are two kinds of marriages; one’s focus is to raise a family, the other’s is to have a partner in life,

 

 

18.       What are your views on fatherhood?

       It defines who I am

       My greatest joys and disappointments have come from being a father

       As, a child, I looked forward to the day that I would be a “Dad”

       Being a father is the best thing that ever happened to me

 

19.       What complaints have your partners had of you in past relationships? In other words, what behaviors did they wish you would change?

       That I was inattentive

       Looking back if I knew their complaints, I would have took action to “fix” the behavior

       That I wasn’t home more because of my career

       That I didn’t listen more

       That I was content and she wanted more

 

20.       What do you think is most important in having a successful and satisfying romantic relationship?

       Being open

       Communication (Specifically, communication feelings, thoughts, ideas)

       Being judgment free

       Give and Take

       Understanding that we all love differently and paying attention to how one and other loves and wants to be loved



   
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