Looking for a woman to share lives with, who loves constant affection & being told she's beautiful & she's loved, who's full of love for the right man. She should want a longterm exclusive relationships where each of us give more to a relationship than most people, so that fulfillment, security, and happiness for us are virtually certain. I don't go for "overlap" in relationships, wanting mutual exclusivity from the beginning of physical intimacy. I'd love to grow old together in marriage to the right woman.

I'm divorced from 1st marriage (no kids), science M.S., and extensively travel for my work. I can periodically rather easily travel to states adjacent to Colorado between projects.

I'm nonsmoking, nondrugusing, and practically a nondrinker (mainly drink a glass of French or German wine with dinner when I visit my parents, or once in a great while some English mead or Chambord). I'm not at all into crowds/concerts/spectator sports/TV/bars/gambling. I'm blond, blue-eyed, wear glasses, have no facial hair, a tad stocky but very strong, 5'9" tall, short normal-looking hairstyle. I enjoy long-distance hiking (hiked the whole Appalachian Trail from GA to ME last year), karate, occasional fishing.

My tastes in music are Enya's stuff ("Only If" is my favorite song of hers), light rock, smooth jazz, and classical (Beethoven/Wagner over Debussy/Mozart). Rap & country with extra twang I'd as soon give a miss to.

I'm politically conservative, voting Constitution Party. Am Christian, but was nonreligious for many years (like most scientists), and am tolerant of most religions in people I'm close to. I attend church about once a week when not in the field for my work or hiking. I would prefer a conservative Christian lady for marriage, though.

Honor is very important to me, such as courage, industriousness, honesty, prudence and keeping my word once given. There are principles and values I would die for, such as defending a wife and children from hazard. I've lived over 5 years outside the U.S., mostly Japan and Taiwan, but also spent 6 months in Europe. I don't believe in debt, such as credit cards. I have an huge repertoire of jokes & stories; I'll keep you laughing from now on. (Ask me to tell you the stories from the Appalachian Trail about the goose in love, and the one-eyed bobcat.)

I played roleplaying games in college & for a while after (the career-oriented scientist/engineer groups, not the sad going-nowhere-in-life dropout groups), as well as military simulation boardgames (Avalon Hill, etc.). My father was a career military officer; I think that someone whose family also moved a lot in her youth would be an especially good match for me.

I'm quite stoical about physical discomforts, not really being bothered by getting rained on or being outside when it's really cold. I get pretty determined to finish anything I start.

I'm very interested in Alaska, owning a number of books about the place, and traveled there for my work repeatedly in 2005 (including the North Slope above the Arctic Circle). I'd definitely like to go back there at some point.

I'd really like to have children, so would prefer a woman young enough to start a family with me. I'm kind of down on public schools, so private schools (I make enough money to afford this) or homeschooling would be the way I'd want any children we had together educated. (Yes, I'd enjoy doing as much of this as my work allowed.)

I'm more tolerant than most men of a certain amount of weight on a woman that I am involved with; I believe a woman should look like a woman (neither the typical concentration-camp survivor magazine model nor Roseanne Barr).

I'd love to have someone in my life who would go hiking with me, but I'd settle for someone who would amusedly tolerate my hiking. (It keeps me in shape and likely to live longer, and what woman wouldn't want that for her husband?) Then, there're the spectacular pictures I've taken from lonely mountaintops miles from roads, the crystal palaces of frozen spring outflow from rock cliff faces I've seen... Hiking has much IMO to offer than just keeping fit.

I eat very healthily (lots of lowfat/ whole-grain stuff, lots of vegetables, no white flour), but am not vegetarian. I love Japanese & Chinese food, plus MidEastern. I'm a reasonably adept cook and not at all helpless in a house. Ask me about my "Big Deal" dinner I fix for someone I'm getting serious with...

I read all the time I can, owning countless books. I reread several of Ayn Rand's books every year ("Atlas Shrugged", etc.). I read a fair amount of science fiction, nonentertainment current events, history (general and military), philosophy, futurism, demographic/immigration news, technology (mostly other than IT), and the better horror writers. That last means Edgar Allen Poe, Brian Lumley, and H.P. Lovecraft over Anne Rice and Stephen King. I prefer David Drake, Jerry Pournelle, pre-1960 Robert Heinlein, Saberhagen, Harlan Ellison, Brian Lumley, etc. in sci-fi, eschewing Star Trek, Star Wars, Anne Mcaffrey, and Jean Auel.

My favorite book authors on relationships are Danielle Crittenden, Laura Schlessinger, Maggie Gallagher, the late Allan Bloom, Rich Zubaty, and Debi Pearl. (I'd probably give you a copy of DP's book "Created to be His Helpmeet" early on.)

I'm pretty good with yardwork and am a rough carpenter, historically making all sorts of shelves, bookcases, and toyboxes for people I'm close to. I'm not really a gardener, but have developed kind of a routine for helping people I'm close to figure out how to optimally fertilize and add trace elements to their yards and gardens.

I prefer dogs and tame cagebirds as the only inside pets. I have handfed (syringe of goo twice a day for 5 weeks) close to a dozen c*ckatiels in the past. I don't have any pets right now due to my work travel, but do miss having them. A home (as opposed to just a house) really should have a pet that enthusiastically greets its people when they get home. (Ask me stories about my dogs in the past, if we talk.)

I am untattoed & have no body piercings, preferring the same. I prefer the natural look on women, makeup and perfume not being things I'd at all demand a woman I'm involved with to go to a lot of trouble over. (I do much prefer shaved legs and underarms on a woman.) I've taken pretty good care of my self over the years, not getting my skin weathered by the sun, from hanging around smoky bars, and the like.

I'm on the affectionate side once a relationship is underway; I'm likely to provide frequent multi-hour backrubs for someone who enjoys them. A relationship (a marriage even more so) should involve both people being very giving of themselves. I like the saying that a marriage shouldn't be 50/50, it should be 100/100, where both people are completely committed to

I'd love for us to wander around a bookstore or library, where we showed each other great books we'd read; that would be a winner IMO. Above all, we'd talk and listen. While finding out if our values and interests were aligned enough that a relationship (or more) could work, we'd flirt a bit in between the joking. If you like this idea for an evening, that'd be a good sign that this might work for us.

Alternatively, if we'd talked on the phone a number of times, exchanged lots of photos, and been communicating by e-mail extensively before we'd yet managed to meet in person, and it was starting to look as if we'd found our missing soulmate, another idea would come to mind. I'd then suggest making the core of the evening my giving you a long backrub (nothing more) while we talk about anything & nothing. That would get us past the awkwardness of the first meeting very nicely, not risking our losing a promising budding relationship, yet is still "safe" enough.

Female
Age between 23 and 36
Live in United States
Must not do drugs
Must not smoke