Why hello there, dear reader!

Just to preface, here's a few concrete details about myself to make sure that we jive - I am 5'6, HWP or very slightly over (175 when I stepped on a scale last week, and would like to go down rather than up. Felt my best at 130 in my mid 20s). I am more introverted and a homebody than a social butterfly, but that doesn't mean I'm not charming. I just struggle with generalized anxiety and don't feel comfortable in my own skin - hoping to change this. Have been in therapy before, will go back when time is more free.

Right, now that that is out of the way! Hey hi hello, I'm posting again in the vain effort to locate my aforementioned cutie patootie. The pookie of my dreams (I don't actually like pookie as a pet name to be clear, I just find it hilarious that it's having a resurgence on social media.) to be the apple of my eye. Who am I, might you ask?

Glad you thought that question, dear non-specific reader! I'm a returning college student in a medicine related field that has no plans to stay in Michigan long term, although I could be swayed by meeting the right person. I've spent 13 years between two long term relationships, one of which was a failed engagement, so I think it's safe to say I can keep someone contented if we're on the same wavelength.

Speaking of which, my wavelength! I am a nerd, full stop. I have raided pretty seriously in FFXIV, I grew up playing WoW and remember raiding in Karazhan before I knew guides existed, stumbling my way through only the first two bosses. Video games are very much a possible bonding activity for me, and they do not have to strictly be MMOs but I do enjoy them as an option. I love midwest emo and folk punk music, I tend to pay attention to lyrics more than I do the melody/beat because I enjoy finding meaning in the words people use - why else would we have so many ways to say the same thing??

I have a dog who is my whole world, it is currently just me and him in my family unit. No kids, although I absolutely do want to have children and get married. I don't consider myself old fashioned or traditional in the sense that like... I am far more liberal than I am conservative, I support social justice initiatives and want the world to be more empathetic and welcoming to those who are neurodivergent or experience the world differently - I just have always known from even being a little kid that I wanted to have kids of my own. To have a little version of me and my special person out there in the world, a symbol of our love and commitment to each other who will persist past whenever we both go and can continue to try and make the world a better place.

That probably gives you a pretty good indication of how sappy/romantic I am, and it doesn't stop there. I think about almost everything pretty deeply if given the opportunity/someone to converse with, so maybe this post is partially for the sapiosexuals out there. I don't really know where I fall on the spectrum of attraction, honestly. I know I want a partner who is attractive/cute to me, as ugly as that feels to admit, but I also don't think it ends there. I want a best friend, someone who sees their relationship as the most important thing in their life, beyond work or friends or...I dunno, pretty much everything besides possibly self growth and growing together.

I have ADHD and can jump around endlessly to different topics because that is just how my brain works, but I will do my best to keep us on track if we do end up speaking at all! I could write another twenty paragraphs about myself and probably still be rambling so I'll just try and cut this off here, so as to not write a literal incomprehensible novel about myself. Please just know that I am available to talk and even if you don't think we'd be a good romantic match, I'd love to make some friends in the SW Michigan area if you're around and could handle another nerd!

Good luck and Godspeed to everybody out there on Reddit, wishing us all nothing but the best. 🫡