i just came to a realization as of lately that made me ponder life. i just bought my first brand new house, and it made me realize, a house is not a home unless you have 2 hearts making it a home together. i do not know if online dating is for me or not, i have tried it a couple times, with varying results.i am ready to fully commit my heart and soul to another person and just want the same in return. i am looking for someone i can consider a lover and best friend. someone i can share my days with and just have fun together no matter what we are doing. someone who knows what they want and is a genuine person at heart. i am very tired of the heart ache. I am tired of being wanted for the wrong reasons, I simply want a woman who loves me for my heart and what I have to offer and appreciates a good man who treats her like his world. About me, well I am smart, ambitious, driven, athletic, and i love to always be learning something new, a hopeless romantic, and am huge on family. I love to travel when I can, and read a book if i have free time outside of the office. I am simply a man that has reached that point in life where I am fortunate to be successful and content with what I have achieved in my education and career, but now i am looking for someone that I can share my life with and devote my heart to ultimately. Please reply if you also seek a genuine, kind hearted person and feel you have the same to offer. I am a hopeless romantic as i have my mothers heart and largely get my warmth and kindness from her and am looking for that one person who has an open to heart to taking a leap together and just seeing what we feel spending time together.I want that person that is willing to put their heart out there and be vulnerable together in taking that leap for something that is genuine and honest and rare in this life. I think we get the best of love by being strong enough to be vulnerable with one anothers hearts and taking that chance that no one else will due to hesitancy or fear of the unknown.I also love kids, if I dated someone with kids I would treat them as my own and give them all the love an opportunity my parents gave me to be the man I am today.I also want to throw this out there, while this site is good for meeting new people, it is not the way to truly get to know someone. I believe that if you are interested in one another, the best method is to just meet up and get to know one another the old fashion way in person. I would appreciate someone that has that same mentality. You cannot see a connection or bond through emails. Thats only seen when you are around another person and in their presence. Distance should also not matter. In todays world, there is such a lack of genuine, good people that the heart should be open to meeting that special person anywhere, whats a couple hours for love and happiness potentially? You never know until you try. The heart should be open to anyone from any walk of life.To sum it all up...I want a loving, caring, optimistic woman who I can see a future with and someone I would be proud to introduce to my parents one day and just someone i can give my all to each and every day. My parents have been married over 30 wonderful years and they are the reason i know how to treat someone the way i do, i grew up watching what true love looks like! They are my inspiration and i aspire to have the love that they have with another!!! hope to hear from you soon :)