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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