I take pride in wanting to respect and fulfill needs and desires of my partner, and know that I too need to be needed by her for fulfillment of these same regards. I have not ever yet been a player, nor to I ever want to, and instead am now looking for someone who can emotionally as well as rationally desire finding a commitment to become my best friend and partner in what intends to become a long term relationship that hopefully lasts for the rest of our lives. I have become accustomed to loving having a rustic rural lifestyle living on a 40 acre hobby [farm] just outside of Madison, WI, have 3 young children ages 4, 8 & 9 that precludes my ability / desire to be able to just pack up and determine to move elsewhere, although I really would love an opportunity to combine forces & families if you too have been so blessed to have or want to have kids of your own. I have enjoyed founding and operating multiple [small businesses] all of my life since I was 12 years old, I have made and lost several small fortunes, and would love to do it all over again with having the right partner with which to share all of the great fun with, as well as the risks and rewards from an enterprise well done. I believe I am worth making an investment in and particularly savor what I anticipate would be the opportunities presented for me to reciprocate back to you my giving back long term dividends of unconditional love and understanding from my heart, I love problem solving and finding optimum solutions... Looking for someone who also appreciates rural lifestyle, loves animals and kids, and is wiser for having lived a robust and full life, and who understands that their "baggage" is exactly what makes them valuable now to be worthy of becoming appreciated for the fabric that has previously been woven to have become the substance of their present life.

That I have experienced previously having literally had my heart ripped out from under me, but I remain standing - I just don't give up or quit when others would certainly know better- I have a [positive attitude] that takes [full responsibility] for the failures of my past, and have learned that each failure in my life has turned into incredible opportunities, if only I stay focused on rediscovering the excellence to build upon in the next adventure of my journey in life. I see potential that others commonly miss, in love & in life.
Having completed the past year's grieving process and come into the acceptance phase of my present state of being, I have been wrapping up the partitioning and dissolution of my past [joint venture] & relationship, while cementing my relevance to remain a great father to my children I continue to share with 1/2 time placement with my ex. Now looking to complete my existence with having a partner to share my next life with, kinda looking foward to the next opportunity to apply all that I have recently learned about myself and as important, the responsibilities I owe to another in reciprocity devoted to fulfilling their needs as they might take pride and pleasure in similarly maintaining their interest to be number 1 in fulfilling mine.

I was told that [intelligence] is found in the ability of a person to be able to express and communicate what are their intimate thoughts and feelings to another person. . . I liked having heard that, because that ability is the best gift I have to offer to anyone, my kids, my love or anyone else I shared any community of interest in furthering finding meaning to be realized from life. Utilizing this proclivity, I find establishing intimacy sharing a life with someone I care deeply about to be an easy practice that I particularly enjoy taking the time, professing the keen interest and remaining [engaged] in the process to enhance bringing out the best of each of us to share with the other in leading and living what is possible in having made a priority to have lived a robust life.

I not only take great interest to listen, but as important, I remain engaged in the conversation to [actually hear] what you intend to have shared with me.

Of the moment, been into relationship books, His Needs/Her Needs; If you can feel, you can heal; each has been particularly insightful towards exploring the vast differences between men and women's thought processes, and how remarkably different each of our brains are wired between the two hemispheres - how vastly different we each approach thought processing to arrive at the same end point - found it to have been fascinating.

like music where I can hear the vocalist singing, not being drown out by their band.

I am an omnivore, with a strong tilting to the healthy side of the platter. I've learned to really enjoy preparing meals for my family over the last year, although baked cinnimon rolls since I was 8 over my mother's dead body. . .[cooking] is little different than chemistry, just that you get to eat your experiments when they are done, good and bad alike. Really believe that sharing a good meal with a person is an excellent form of beginning [communications], although my concept of foreplay involves just slightly deeper intimacy than is usually the case around meal preparation and cleanup, I have to confess that I've never minded becoming enthused over a great meal, warmed up while cleaning it all up afterwards, and then continuing what has been an excellent conversation over into an intimate evening of massaging complete digestion of the day's occurrences while relaxing into the contemplation of something similar happening to my mind and soul as a continuim of transistioning from where we left off having just endeavored to have nourished our bodies. Its all a life process, why not celebrate it in all of its respective colors!

Love, respect, [communication], recreation, water and great company shared with the boundless unconditional love experienced, like it or not, as is invariably reflected between sharing a great labrador dog who doesn't know the meaning of not wanting to continue to share the pillows on the bed in attempting to protest being removed from physically remaining between us.

Meaning of my life - how to maximize all of the potential of it, and how best to find someone worthy of [investing] my heart and soul with to remain committed to a lifetime relationship glued together by our love.

No such thing, other than finding myself searching for enlightenment through conversation, books or google to discover new experiences, new outlooks to continue discovering the mysteries that fascinate me of life.

I've enjoyed having had spectacular failures in my past, but embrace them for having always become a tremendous growth experience from which my future hits another whole level of enhanced opportunities that have come from out of the growth just experienced - painful when happening, but wouldn't have missed most of them for the world.

Grateful to have received permission from another on-line prospect woman to have confirmed that I will continue to love my ex for the rest of my life, notwithstanding the past relationship is so, so finally done with and over, over, over. Has provided me with the freedom to continue to celebrate the good taken from out of my past, without feeling guilt for realizations gained that I have had to move on in rediscovering foundation for future happiness, as well as locks in my security to be able to really feel good about being able to recognize that women I meet are as likely to similarly retain holding special feelings for their past love in their lives, without either of us having to be looking over our shoulders wondering if they too have moved on, such that their past is not continuing to remain a boat anchor fixing them to the shore while their ship also needs to set sail on discovering what could become the voyage of the rest of their lives.

You would value having me want to reciprocate learning to love you, and your family if you have one, or your companion animals, as I would want to have you come to feel about those of my own. If you do know how much better life is and can continue to grow when being shared with a peer rather than just doggin it alone, because it is easier to just live single to not be bothered having to deal with the meshing your freedom with making a new found commitment to another, then we have something in common and I'd really love to explore whether we have any sustaining additional chemistry further. Thank you for having considered me for having any potential to be worthy of becoming your close friend.