Eddycontreras, 34

you be the best YOU can you can be. This list is not all-inclusive, and may change, by the way.

So here goes.

- Will listen to me talk about my problems, and remember the difficult ones.
- Will want to tell me all of his, from the small to the large.
- Wants to be hands-on in my life. Knowing where I'm going to be, what I'm going to be doing.
- Understands that, like the Velveteen Rabbit, I have spots of my fur that have been loved off, and will calmly love me in those areas, too.
- Knows me so well that he can look at a menu and know what I will be having...and be right.
- Also knows me so well that he knows when I may be trying to lie to him, and will call me on it.
- Feels as passionately about me as I do about him. Because I don't listen to the detractors-passion can and does last in some special circumstances.
- Knows that some battles I will have to fight alone, and others I will need his help without prompting.
- Will defend me if my character comes under attack, no matter what.
- Knows that I like to run over the men in my life, so he keeps the upper hand for most of it.
- No matter what, he will never, ever hit me, push me, emotionally beat me up or physically scare me while he is angry. Arguments need to happen. They do not need to happen in a way that makes people cower.
- He will be my best friend, and the one person in the world that I simply cannot live without.
- He knows and understands that I have some problems, and they are problems that he carefully knows about and pays attention to, all the while tiptoeing around them.
- And, above all, he is the one that we talk about everything with together, the good and the bad, the deep and the shallow.

All these things are what my ideal man is.