Hello Lesley, My pleasure meeting you on the dating, Thanks so much for leaving me with your email, We will take a step at a time. My English might not be as good as yours as English is not my first language, Let me start by telling you some Basic but important things about me. I am a Private Contractor in the Oil & Energy sector and a Business Man. Explaining the details of what I do would have to be in another email. Have been widowed for 6 years plus now. Yes, I am proud of my daughter as I have only one daughter 25yrs old, I will talk more about it in my next email. I used to smoke but I quit 1 year ago. I drink occasionally. I'm always very direct and straightforward, I'm 183cm in height, and I live alone in Bournville presently. I am a very spontaneous person. I tell you what's on my mind when I feel it and this has made me a very honest person naturally. I'm also a very optimistic and open-minded person. Being Optimistic and Open minded has always attracted people to me Naturally. I'm not the kind of man who bases his feelings on the Outer Beauty or physical appearance. I believe in the Beauty on the Inside because I learned long ago that it is much better. I have only been on this dating site for about a month, I do not think I would be needing it anymore, I will end account soon as it expired. I still know very little about you due to your profile and would love to know a lot more. I'm new to internet dating, however, I think you are sincere. So now it's your turn. Tell me anything about yourself that you would like me to know. Your job and maybe something you are proud of about you, What you've done for yourself that makes you proud, The position you are in life today, What you have been through in the past and your aspiration and ambition. How can you qualify or describe this form of meeting?. I'm an open book, so don't hesitate to ask me whatever you want to know about me. I attached some pictures, You can send me some of yours too. Thanks

How are you Lesley, Thanks so much for telling me about you. I am sorry for responding late as I wanted to respond properly, I have so much time to write to you this morning and I just thought I should write to you more about me. I really appreciate this communication with you and I will say it is a sign of will, Well I am not very good at talking about myself in written But I will try as much as I can to talk about myself in other to give you a good pictures of me even before we meet and sit together, I have decided to tell you my life's story from the very beginning, I hope it won't scare you away.
My first language is German. I am Ryan Hartmann, I was born to a loving couple, by an Austrian father and a British mother. My father was an international businessman who met this British orphan whose only family were close friends. My mom once told me there was something about my dad that no woman could ever resist and she once said she sees same in me. lol. My parents met in London. They got married, had only one son (me) and decided to keep it that way. We stayed in London for 2 years and then moved to Vienna, Austria as my dad tried to pursue a career there as a professional antique collector.
One fateful night in 1980 my father went to sleep and never woke up. A few months before I graduated, while on a class tour of the University of Vienna, I met my late wife at the University of Vienna, she was a very sweet woman and I couldn't think of anyone else I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. About a year later we got married and we moved to California, the United States due to work-related reasons. We had difficulties having our first child until 1993 when we received the blessing of our only daughter Michelle who is 25year old and She's studying Bio-Medical Science at the Stanford University with a view of then going on to do Medicine.
Late in 2004, I lost my mom to the cancer of the colon. This was a very miserable time in my life and I thought the worst had happened to me but the worst blow came in September 2010 when my wife was involved in an auto crash which claimed her life. I have been a widower since then and although I have been involved in some relationships over the last few years, nothing really ever came out of it. I believe that every encounter has its purpose. I do not live in the past and I have always believed in LIVING in the NOW! Today is a gift that is why it is called the PRESENT! Moving back here in Bournville, Birmingham has been very rewarding for me in different ways. I can't really say I'm living the dream but I think happiness is actually something we give ourselves. I like to travel and exploring the world is something I hope to do for the rest of my days. I was born into a Christian home and as time went by, the conditions surrounding me made it imperative that I experience other ways of life while growing up. I do not regret any of this and it has brought me to the level of understanding of the human world that I have today. I'm interested in many things including history, humanity and world cultures.
Sometimes I hike in the mountains and by the sea. Nature is a healing and uplifting influence upon my spirit, and in its beauty, I feel connected to the universe. Also if you will permit me I will be there for all the time and give uplifting that will make you forget all pains. I consider myself a practical individual who is complex at times but grounded in values that are universally good. I am not perfect and I believe no one is. But my sincere desire is to learn how to improve my imperfections in order to become the best I can be as an ordinary functioning human being. I approach life with a sense of openness to new experiences and adventures with humor and wit. I'm willing to try things previously untried while engaging all my faculties to absorb all that I can because I happen to have an insatiable appetite for understanding the mechanisms of our reality and human behavior as a whole. In this regard, I have traveled extensively around the globe - Europe, Turkey, Japan, India, South East Asia, The Middle East, South America, around the US and the Caribbean Islands. Shortly before I moved back to Birmingham UK, I was on a 2-week cruise around the Caribbean (my 5th around the islands). Travel; which gives value to time spent on this planet is continuously giving me new perspectives that are filled with exciting experiences and much spiritual and cultural enrichment. I hope you understand everything I have said so far. I look forward to learning more about you. Please tell me about your ideology of life my dear, Tell me more about you and the stage you are in life at the moment. Bye for now and enjoy your day. Ryan x.

Hi, Dear Lesley, How are you doing? Thanks for your message. Your past email is been meaningful and helping me to get to know you better, I won't be able to write a long message right now as I am a little busy, I received a call back letter on a contract on Monday morning, that was why I was summoned to a meeting yesterday Tuesday and the conclusion was that I will be traveling for 20 days for final rig renovation. This is a million gain project. Honey, I will be traveling to South Africa for this project. However, I will be leaving for the business trip later today. I am sorry that this is a short notice But it's impromptu, I was really hoping to meet you this weekend just to get to know you better but Due to this business trip it would not be possible for me to see you within the next 2 weeks and few days approximately. I thought about this and I realized it was an opportunity for us to get to know each other very well before we even met physically. After my last project in South Africa, I am quitting field works. Any other job would only require my attention from my home office wherever I go. I want to spend the rest of my life having fun. I attached a copy of the letter to this email for you to understand much better. Have a wonderful day. Looking forward to hearing from you and I will be able to write you back soon as I arrive in South Africa. Thanks.
Ryan.

Good Day, Dear Lesley, How are you doing? Thanks for your message. I was hoping to meet you soon before I left, God knows best, Everything happens for a reason, I know this wait will be worthwhile. I just felt the need for me to attach the letter just for you to understand better because I do business/contract and it's always good to be accurate with time and scheduled. I apologize for the short notice before I left. I arrived in Cape Town, South Africa safely. I was thinking about you all through the flight, I could have written you early since I arrived But because I had to visit the Minister of Energy in the administrative capital city Pretoria before getting to Cape Town. Nice to hear that you've been here before. My trip is majorly for work not for luxury But I took little time to explore quickly, I took the opportunity to do little sightseeing and learn more about the history of the country by visiting the Hector Peterson Memorial and Museum which is dedicated to the freedom struggle during the apartheid era. I also visited the Late Nelson Mandela's former house in the township of Soweto quickly. Nelson Mandela has been someone I always admired, he is one of the most selfless fellows that ever existed with power. He is one of the few true heroes I read about, I noticed that when people who met Mandela want to talk about him, the first thing they say is ''After I met Nelson Mandela my life changed forever'' or ''Nelson Mandela is the greatest man I ever met''. I sometimes consider myself ambitious because I have a lot of dreams I wish to achieve before I die.
You can imagine I must be extremely tired, before getting to my final destination which is Cape Town. I have been busy settling down here in Cape Town. Business culture varies from place to place, but this is my first entirely independent business trip. My journeys in the past were usually on contract with other company assignments. However, I always take the time to enjoy where ever I find myself on the planet and also try to learn some things about the culture and people there. Life is simple, for those who take it simple, I am quite contented with where I am today. I don't like to complicate things as there is joy in every situation if you know the right angle to look at it from, but because we live in a monetary system we spend most of our lives trying to acquire wealth and secondary needs while our primary needs and goals are left unseen. I worked very hard, for a very long time to make sure I acquired a lot of wealth, but in the long run, apart from the money to acquire some luxuries, for what purpose would you need more money? To be realistic, except if you just want to be known as a rich person. Wealth means nothing if you have no best friend to share it with. I know I have spent more than half of my lifetime on this planet already and this realization has made me start to re-assess what my main goals in life are. What could be more important than a happy ending? A man needs to live his life full of joy and happiness and no matter his achievements he has no happy ending if he has no crown to complete him and that is a woman to call his own wife and best friend. A woman who knows that even while arguing we still need to hold hands. A woman who I can call a partner in crime.. lol. A woman who I can tell anything. I think it is time for me to find this woman or die trying because I embraced my work for so long trying to get over my late wife, that I worked so hard but now the time has come for me to move on and find Love and Happiness again. I have been single for 6 years plus now but didn't really take note until the 1st of September when I remember my wife and took a min silent in respect of her. I only summon a courage of signing up on the dating site and I met you. My daughter told me that just because something good has ended does not mean something better cannot start. Why am I telling you about the kind of woman I want? I don't want to become really attached to someone who might not be looking for the same things I'm looking for in a relationship. However, I want to let you know that I am enjoying getting to know you. I wish I could write you a longer message now but I have to sort some computer and paper works in preparation for Friday work as I will only be starting tomorrow Friday and I till need to rest as well. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Warm Regards. Ryan xx.

How are you doing dear Lesley? Thanks for your beautiful email and thanks for your care and concern, I wasn't too tired after the flight, I guess I am used to it. I have taken my profile off from the dating site, I don't want to receive any notification from them again and I am happy that we are getting along so well. I trust you are doing ok over there? As for me, Cape Town has been great so far, I am indeed enjoying the weather, I checked the time difference between Cape Town South Africa and the UK, I realized that Cape Town is 1hrs ahead of the UK. My time over here is very precious to me and yet I will always find time to write to you because you are precious to me. I don't really have time to go anywhere as I am only working hard to meet up with the deadline. I think it's time for me to explain more about me as I like you to read something from me whenever you open your email. Most of my expectations/aspirations are to achieve my goals in life and be with my partner to walk together in our old age, To grown old together. I worked as a contract engineer for Greka Oil & Gas based in Santa Maria, CA United States for 12 years, for the last two years with them, I worked in the sea on a jack-up rig platform. I used to wake up by 6 a.m every morning to catch my chopper down there, I would have to work from then till very late in the night. I had two colleagues/friends I used to work with, Andrew and Brian. Brian got married for the second time in 2014. He found his woman on the internet and to be sincere they seem to share true love, he changed my point of view towards online relationships. Presently I am an independent contractor of international repute(Self-Employed), I specialize in the oil engineering sector and mining. What I do basically supervise the construction of oil rig platforms ranging from America and Northern Europe to the middle east to far east Asia, this is my first time of working in an African nation. I also handle rig renovations and maintenance. I sometimes dabble in supplying construction materials to other drilling construction companies overseas. The present project I am working on here in Cape Town is a contract to reconstruct and renovate two semi-submersible oil rig platforms in the Saldanha Bay area. I intend to quit field operations after this contract and continue future jobs as a supervisor from my home office, while I let my colleagues handle the field operations. I really appreciate our conversation so much that I anticipate your message in my email, To be honest, I like to be friends with potential partners before thinking about getting serious.
All my life I have been a successful career man.. I am sometimes competitive. I set my professional and personal goals and I work hard to achieve them. I believe in a balanced life, I work hard and play harder nowadays. I am blessed to be able to travel. I love to pamper and be pampered by my woman. I am very affectionate and romantic. I am a natural pleaser and would do anything reasonable to please my woman. My two top Love languages are Physical Touch and Verbal Affirmation. I touch to convey my feelings and I verbally affirm my intimate feelings. There is more to physical chemistry. There should be emotional, spiritual chemistry. In fact, by talking on the phone we can discover if we have the verbal communication chemistry. My love-life is very important but I am very cautious because I do not want to get hurt and that's another reason why I also like to be friends for some time before moving to the next level of being intimate partners. I am very receptive, sensitive and reflective. When it comes to finding a partner, I am looking for a woman who has lots of integrity, someone who is expressive of her feelings and believes in Open Communications. I believe honesty is the best policy. My dad used to tell me that if you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything. The truth will always set you free in the long run. I seek a seriously inclined woman of substance who is sincere about making this online process work for a mutually exciting experience. Someone who is unattached and emotionally available to share and expand life with as: partners, companions, friends or lovers - someone with whom I can communicate with words, touch and even our silence - looking forward together in the same direction, while creating our own bubble in which to cuddle and escape from life's daily annoyances; mutually growing in a comfortable way without sacrificing either of our individuality, with respect for each others cultures and beliefs; still exploring our amazing world with the excitement of discovery - and each others minds and emotions to whatever degree. I have gone out on a couple of dates ever since I lost my wife, but nothing that was really serious came out of it. They were 2 who were very emotionally unstable but said they were ready for a monogamy relationship, but yet they are still dating 2 men. I guess the connection just wasn't there. I would only want my relationship based on honesty and sincerity. I am tired of women who want to play games. I do not believe in one night stands. Sex is beautiful when you are with somebody you really care about and have a very strong emotional connection with. I am a very happy person and living life to the fullest. I do not need a woman, I want to be with the right woman who will be crazy about me and who I will be crazy about her. Somebody that I look forward to being with every day to share my joys, my sorrow, and my pains. I believe in teamwork/cooperation and that together humans make short-term and long-term goals. I take care of myself by living healthy: moderate eating, regular exercise and staying positive, happy and thankful every day. I once read a great book ''The truth about love''. It is very informative in the three stages of love: Chemistry, Compatibility, and Commitment! So even though I want to be friends at first, I am not just looking for friends, I am also looking for the Love of My Life who I want to grow old with graciously. Looking forward to your email. Ryan xx.

Good morning to you dear Lesley, Thanks so much for your email. I'm usually tired after work, So I don't read my email after work, I love to read them in the morning over here, And I also love writing you in the morning when I can express myself to you the best way I can. I am sorry if I was a little forward with any statement But sometimes you just have to express how you feel. I have to thank you again for your email, I cherish what we have right now and I look forward to where we are going to. Time is how we spell love.
Transparency is very important in a relationship and marriage. I truly believe in honest communication, It's the key to every successful marriage/relationship. Every time I read an email from you I get more interested in meeting you physically. I can almost hear the cheerfulness of your personality in the words you write to me. Like I told you previously, I am a very positive person and try to remain that way, no matter the circumstances. I understand all you have written and I just wish I was sitting in front of you sharing thoughts together.. I sometimes consider myself ambitious because I have a lot of dreams I wish to achieve before I die. Let me tell you what having a good time means to me, I like to go skiing in the winter, two places I usually go to are Kirchberg and Kitzbuhel in Austria. Now that I'm in the UK I intend to visit some ski resorts like Chatham Ski & Snowboard Centre and Norfolk Snowsports Club and much more. I like to read all kinds of books ranging from nonfiction to biographies, I also like super thrillers and espionage stories. I have a whole lot of other things I do to catch some fun but it greatly depends on who I'm with and where we are. Sometimes I go to see a movie at the cinema or maybe just listen to some good music ranging from jazz to soft rock and I also like soul music. I also enjoy taking cruises, shopping, hanging out at the park or museum. You can also catch me taking long walks at the beach but it's usually always lonely when you don't have someone to share that time with, someone to hold hands with & dig our feet into the sand, to listen to the waves crash on the shore. To feel the sun on our faces. Someone willing to travel to new exotic places and appreciate the things we've got, even if it's not a lot. To feel the wind flow through our hair. To feel heaven as if we were there because that special someone is next to me and there's no other place I would rather be. In my short journey in life, I've noticed public opinions about relationships usually do more harm than good. For this reason, I like to keep my relationships private because when both partners sit down and talk about their differences they usually find better solutions together. I have been single for a couple of years now but didn't really take note until I relocated to Virginia Water, Surrey. Michelle and I are very close. She is practically my only true friend and I have always tried to be there for her just like her mother would if she was still alive. I have reached a level of understanding in which the qualities that attract me to a woman usually have nothing to do with her appearance. I'm not the kind of man who wants a woman for just sex or her body. True love and compassion cannot be based on physical attraction (or lust) alone. This is one of the important reasons why I do not date often. I do not have a problem with age, younger or older than me. I feel as long as we have a connection and the person is mature enough to understand that Mental Happiness is far more important than physical happiness, major physical differences do not matter so much. Making the world a better place is an enormous task that can not be accomplished by any individual or group alone. It can only be accomplished by the cooperation of all human beings. Till I read from you again. Please take good care of your lovely self for me. Warm regards and keep smiling. Ryan xx.

Good morning to you, my dear Lesley? Thanks for your sweet email, Don't worry about been hurt by me, I would never do that, I will take good care of your heart and you should take good care of mine too, Reasons to smile every day till the end of time is all I want to give you. You are a good business minded woman and because you don't have a record of adventures or exciting things in the past, that doesn't make you a boring person, you are focus on the good things that needed to be done and that makes you a balanced person, there is a different phase in life.
A very important line here, Please, you don't need to have low opinion of yourself or look down on yourself, that is the most wicked thing you can do to yourself, so please don't ever do that again, the beauty is inside of you and there must be something special about you before your friends can tell you that you lovely and I trust my instinct, I know you are not only lovely, you are special but you don't know. I will like to thank you for your honesty and for expressing yourself so far and also giving me a chance to express myself to you every day, Thanks for this great union. I'm patiently waiting for the days we will be together, spending time together and getting to learn more about one another, Learning about each other take a lifetime. As you know each day is a gift and we have a choice as to how we will spend each moment. While I am a deeply emotional man and have moments of sadness, feelings of disappointment and anger, I try to address that emotion and reach for the sunshine and joy. I always try to take responsibility for my own actions and define boundaries for myself. I used to be a perfectionist and always wanted to be in control but I grew older and a lot of things changed. I truly took time out to study dating to understand how the male & female interact, what was important and necessary to ensure true happiness. I enjoy being with someone, I do not want to be lonely or unhappy. I believe that being with someone special brings more happiness and more enjoyment to life. I was happily married for a long time and have been widowed for 6 years plus now. I have just also come out of my shell which is why I felt comfortable when my daughter told me it would be nice to have my profile on the dating site. I have taken the time I needed to completely heal and find the answers I needed before I decided to open my heart to the possibilities of finding another soulmate if she's out there. I believe we all have a past, the difference is that many of us do not take the time to study the past to make the future better. I have learned that I can't keep the world on its access and it is not my responsibility to light and heat the earth, so I am so much relaxed now that I'm not trying to be King! This includes outward boundaries on how much I project my own need to control others and inward boundaries on what I will tolerate and what I want with regard to the behavior of others towards me, especially in relationships. I want the people I care about to know that they are loved and appreciated. So far I am happy for you and happy for me. We are two good human beings and two beautiful souls that deserve the best. Let me try and make our conversation more interesting, Tell me what you consider the three greatest things you have learned about yourself that you feel has changed your life and outlook to dating and possibly finding your soul mate? What do you consider to be your greatest assets and conversely your three greatest weaknesses? I will bring this email to an end now and look forward to receiving one back from you. Thinking about you. Stay blessed. Ryan xx.

Good Morning, My Sweet Lesley, Thanks for your message. Well, my little dog is a family dog which my daughter adore so much, so the dog is in the United States with my daughter, What can I say about my past days, I guess it has been meetings after meetings and when I have long free time, it gets so lonely, that's why most of the time, I chose to embrace work. I am glad you are not dwelling on the past. I hope your son feels better now?
I love the fact that you've been yourself and I cherish the way you portray yourself and the kind of woman you are, I love your personality. I am happy and I thank God for today and especially thank God for bringing you to my life because you seem to be well balanced just like I told you from the beginning. I trust and I am willing to trust. Trust and honesty are important in a relationship or marriage.
I really appreciate this wonderful union and open heart. There are so many things we take for granted in life, today I realized just how reading messages from you has become a part of me lately. So I say thank you so much for all you've shared. I appreciate it very much. I love reading from you, I so much love the way you address your messages and the way you express yourself, thanks for sharing about you with me every day. A relationship takes two committed individuals to make it work, We are simply running the same pace. It takes a huge commitment and tolerant to make a relationship and marriage successful, Which I have learned and experience while growing up with my parent and I put it into practice with my marriage with kara, it makes it beautiful. I am really ready for this again, I am really ready to be happy again because Having a wonderful partner bring so much happiness and success in our life. I am not good at casual dating relationships. I was married for 30 years, she was my everything and it took me time to come to terms that she was no more, but I am happy all that has been put behind me. I understand what it means to have a good relationship, I understand how to treat a woman very well, I know the nitty gritty of a good marriage. I believe in treating my woman equally and I will always make you feel equal to me. I never made any decision without the consent of my wife... equality is something I believe so much in. My mom once told me, Ryan, if you want to have a good marriage you must treat your wife with respect, make her your best friend and most importantly make her feel equal to everything. All this I applied during my marriage with Karalyn and I was a happy man all through our marriage. When you give a woman a house she will give you a home when a woman is happy, her man will surely be the happiest man on earth, 95% of women will always reciprocate the good love you have shown to them. But when you give a woman crap be ready to get crap as well. All these I learned in my marriage with Kara. I learned that you cannot complain about everything and in some cases, you have to inconvenience yourself for your woman's happiness. Not every man has that patience and tolerance to understand some of these details about their woman. Marriage to me is beautiful when you pay attention to some details. I have been hoping, praying and searching for someone that would compliment me and feel like my soul mate, if at all she's out there. I will not settle for anything less than true love and happiness. I want a full, healthy and happy love with my best friend and lover. I am a hopelessly romantic, passionate, hands-on, sensuous man. I believe that God puts people into my life for a reason and I attempt to understand that reason, whether it be friendship, professional association or that they have something to offer me or me them, such as a connection to someone else. I believe that God makes himself evident to me many times during the day, but I have to pay attention to his gifts. All that being said, I believe, that in God in time, I will find my soul mate and she will find me. I believe that every true relationship should be based on honesty and trust. So are you ready to trust? Do you have the belief that we can make this relationship a reality? And here's what I consider to be my three greatest assets and conversely my three greatest weakness;
Assets:
1. Sense of humor
2. Ability to express me truly
3. Great capacity to love
Weaknesses:
1. A certain degree of impatience
2. I tend to live in the moment (this is a weakness that I really don't mind..lol)
3. I could easily get frustrated with processes that are energy and resource wasteful, I sometimes subconsciously have high expectations that I will be treated as I treat others, and this can result in great disappointment for me sometimes. I have been working on eliminating number 3, especially now that I am older and understand humans more. I insist on not losing myself in a relationship and that my partner does not either; however, I do need to know that my partner misses me during the day, looks forward to seeing me at night, enjoys spending time away from work with me, and trust me when I am out. I am thankful for what I have and live life with great expectations. I am positive and I look at trial times as an opportunity for growth. I am someone who is naturally very committed to his partner and always try to bring her honor. God has already made a choice for me. I am just trying to find her, and that's why I am here with you, One thing I also know is that I'm still in the learning process of discovering all I require in a partner. Thinking about you more every day. Ryan xxx

How are you doing today my sweet Lesley? Yes, I see my daughter as soon as I can, she's a strong girl. I am glad to hear that your son feels a lot better now.
You don't need to worry about anything, I will be home soon, I am sure in about a week and a few days from now with the look of things. My favourite band of all time? I like few of them but I think Brotherhood of Man and I love their song "Save Your Kisses for Me" My current favourite band? Not sure about now, I just love few of them all around the world. My favourite food? I love Italian food too because I love spaghetti and I also love the British spaghetti bolognese The book I am reading at the moment? I am not reading anyone at the moment as I have been busy with meetings and jobs all this long even before the present contract. The last movie I went to see? Well, that's been a long time that I have gone to see a movie But the last one was "The Longest Ride" the story was writing by Nicholas Sparks, the same writer of the movie called "The Notebook" I am happy I found you, I am very pleased with this consistent communication and the intense connection we are creating, We will definitely put it to a real person as soon as I return. I have no doubt, I am grateful as it has been a very special way of communicating, of sharing emotions and deep-seated longing. It is precious being able to express one's self like this, as it does not happen every day. I trust in the universal forces holding this world together and I am after your heart. I have had relationships but neither my heart nor my mind has agreed to bring things to the next level that could lead to a long-lasting relationship. I am hopelessly romantic and love to cuddle and make the surroundings very inviting. When it comes to food, I love seafood as well, I like chocolate with nuts, and white chocolates also. I love all kinds of fruits, especially berries. I like coffee every morning. Have you heard about ceviche (it is raw shrimp or fish, that actually has been cooked in lime juice with onions, Serrano peppers etc), it's fantastic. Talking more about me, I am a chameleon, I can be in jeans, or in a suit. I can be sitting down on the ground with children just being silly and laughing, or having dinner with the dignities. I can be comfortable both ways. Which one would I enjoy most? depends on my mood. I can go for a walk or to dance. I can stay in or go out for dinner. I can be a good conversational person, say funny jokes, or just be silent enjoying each others company. I do not mind doing dirty or hard work. I will do what it takes to rise to the situation. I will continue being who I am, but I also invite new ideas, I have an open mind to constructive criticism. I respect the child and the elder. I love antiques and open spaces. I love flowers and animals. I love to discover beauty in things and people. I do not mind to make a fool of myself if I can put a smile on someone else's face. I am tough and I am a man of character. A Happy one week and days of this great union, We have been friends and wonderful union for such a short time now and yet every day that passes makes me imagine being with you, I just hope my imagination has not made my expectations too high. I have tried to sit back, watch, and listen to you. I sometimes feel like I have known you for years, You make me feel brand new, a message from you always makes my day brighter. I will just continue to sit back and watch until the day we finally meet. Someone is thinking about you with joy and a smile on his face. Ryan xxx