About myself and my ideal match:
You and I are both adults, and like you, I no longer seek fairy tales. What I've already experienced is enough for me. For a long time, my life was dedicated to work: for many years, I was a lawyer, and, as often happens with successful women, I invested too much time, energy, and myself into my career. It gave me experience, stability, confidence... but it deprived me of something that can't be bought: full-fledged personal happiness and the warmth of being with someone I can trust.
I have a past, just like you. It contained disappointments, losses, moments that are painful to talk about and even more painful to remember. But all of this made me who I am: patient, wise, calm, able to value attention, time, and honest relationships. Yes, I have children, they are already grown, and they advised me to come here.
Today, I want something different. I want to live for myself, not in the sense of selfishness, but in the sense of a real life, where there is love, support, genuine interest, and respect.
I'm a bit old-fashioned: I believe that if people meet, they should meet at some point. Not for the sake of illusions, but to understand whether there's chemistry between them, a sense of closeness, an energy that's impossible to convey in words. But before a meeting becomes reality, there must be a conversation, communication. Well, we definitely need to talk first to implement a plan, right? After all, how else will we understand that we have shared values, a shared outlook on life, similar expectations, and a desire to move in the same direction?
I'm not here for empty talk or a collection of compliments. I want to get a sense of a person's character, their upbringing, their attitude toward life, toward women, toward themselves.
I think you're an internally stable man who's also tired of playing at masks, of temporary people and superficial relationships. Then perhaps we can talk.
That's where it all starts.
Always with a talk.