Happy, fun, child-like nature with grown man responsibilities. I let the Gospel be the center of my life - the rest just comes as blessings. Maybe you are the next blessing :) Maybe you are just the next water fight in the back yard :) I can turn on and off fun mode to be deeply reverent when warranted, but life is not so serious, folks, that we can't have outright FUN as a family! Let me borrow something from Elder Holland as now being my own and what I send out to attract the right woman: "I need someone who loves me, truly, truly loves me, and loves what our Father in Heaven has commissioned me to do. Ours is not a feeble message. It is not a fleeting task. It is not hapless; it is not hopeless; it is not to be consigned to the ash heap of history. It is the work of Almighty God, and it is to change the world. So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up, and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share, and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can’t quit and we can’t go back. After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before." Correct. Nothing has ever been the same since then.

Too intelligent for my own good... more on that another time if you ask. Only member in my family, but the Gospel was always important to me. It's funny how even as a child my hobbies centered around self-reliance. I was a foster parent to sick children others would not take, and adopted a daughter who now must live in a hospital. I am ready for making a large family and for the right woman will enjoy an instant family. Forgive me if I take my time getting to know you... I made the mistake of marrying someone who decided to not put effort in to our marriage while being emotionally abusive. I can not do that again. I'm going to marry someone "who get's it" when it comes to the Gospel and who has SOUND mental health. You have a work to do. It is spelled out for you in the scriptures and manuals of the church. I will do my utmost to support you in your role and duties. Please support me in mine instead of undermining all that I am and all that I can be. Yes, I am afraid I will attract another abusive wife. So, I am cautious: "The best way to avoid divorce from an unfaithful, abusive, or unsupportive spouse is to avoid marriage to such a person. If you wish to marry well, inquire well." ---Dallin H. Oaks So, let me add to his statement... if you are a bitter woman, a woman with codependency issues, or in any other way will be a hindrance not a help meet, I love you, I pray for you, but you are not for me. That's OK. We can't be right for everybody and shouldn't want to be. I can not help you. I don't know why I attract women like you, but I will not have that in my life any more. Please get help. It seems like being an LDS site, a sister would "sell herself", perhaps, by the qualities that the Church teaches. So... show me a woman of Proverbs 31 and I will marry her forthwith! Seriously. No one is perfect, but we can be perfect at following the precepts of the Gospel, no? Live IN the world, not OF the world, no? Be peculier? From the church manual, "THE LATTER-DAY SAINT WOMAN: BASIC MANUAL FOR WOMEN" (Wow! What an amazing book! Do the sisters read it?): "Even in Old Testament times the Lord encouraged His people to be self-reliant and independent. Proverbs 31 describes a good homemaker who uses her skills to provide for her household: “She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. … “… With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. … “She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. “She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. “She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed. … “She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness” (Proverbs 31:13, 16, 19–21, 27). And, yep, I do all I can from the Priesthood manuals, am not perfect, am peculiar to most of the world yet dearly loved by most people anyway, and am not a "crazy" person. I firmly testify of a living Savior and ALL that He asks us to become through prophetic counsel.