I’m not trying to make a purchase, dammit I want romance!

Dating has become far too transactional for me to even want to try. It’s all about “playing the numbers”, what can this person bring to the table? Is there someone better? Trade up?

I don’t want any of that. I want to meet someone organically and click, then I want the romance. I want that initial chemistry to feel like it fits so well it’s meant to be. I want to feel that and know it and I want her to feel it too, but I want her to let me believe that I have charmed her. I want that to evolve into the kind of love that conquers all. Two people sharing one life, through thick and thin, always better together than either of us could be apart.

That is what I want, and that is why I am single. I can’t settle for less.