Greetings! You've come to the #1 site on the Internet for steamy autobiographical prose. I aim to reward you with a load of hot info, but first can we enjoy some foreplay? Hold my hand as we gently outline the contours of a few terms of service.
If you are
• Primarily seeking attention, followers, or customers rather than reciprocal love,
• Looking for someone to "spoil you,"
• Overly attached to causes or beliefs (such as Trumpism, but not limited to the fascist right), or
• Engaged disproportionately in something you have minimal ability to influence
. . . then we aren't the best fit. Good luck in your search!
Mmm, was that as good for you as it was for me? Let's keep thrusting forward.
I'd like to find a true partner and best friend. One way to understand relationships is to see people as attached to stories that form our identities: what we like, what we push away or avoid, and how we deal with conflict and pain.
I'm looking for an exceptional match on those dimensions, a woman whose narratives and hopes and values are compatible enough that we can weave them together. Someone to grow with.
Because I'm 6'5" (1.95m), height is nice, especially if you want kids.
Location isn't very important to me, at least at the stage of getting acquainted. I'm ready and willing to relocate in good time, but I'm working on a dream-come-true book project that will likely keep me based around Boston for several months more.
Above all, please know that what I'm looking for isn't on a best-to-worst scale. It's based on what's a good match for me personally among all the ways humans can be human. I love tiramisu and I love kimchi, but I'll question your taste if you serve them together. Some pairings work better than others.
If you need a religious partner, know that I don't see life in those terms. I mention this because it's important to a lot of people, and it's a part of my past and my family. I was raised Mormon but am no longer religious. I dedicated a lot of my life to faith, including two years as a missionary in Chile.
Faith matters a lot less to me than how open you are, how you adapt, how you play, and how you relate to things that don't align with your beliefs and assumptions.
I believe there's a force that connects all life; I believe coincidences that seem like more than coincidence may guide us at times; but I don't believe in an all-knowing or all-powerful human god. (**Explanations below, if you're interested. Honestly, I can't believe you're still reading, you sexy minx.)
This site is meant to be only an intro, so here are just a few more details about me. I built up some savings and investments and left my last full-time job by choice in early 2020 to spend more time on other pursuits: writing, fitness, and music. I also prioritized greater awareness of my emotions and psychology.
I've been training like an Olympian with far less talent since early 2021, and recently won placed 2nd in the pentathlon and decathlon at U.S. Masters Championships. (I've also competed at World Masters Athletics championships in Finland, Poland, and Sweden.) One highlight of my track & field development was an in-person training camp with the coach who trained Aries Merritt, Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder in the 110m hurdles!
I'm now collaborating with Aries to write his autobiography.
My doctor says I'm in excellent health. I don't have any sexually transmitted infection, past marriage, or children. Unless you count my seventeen cats, whom you'll meet on our first date. I take them EVERYWHERE.
That's probably plenty . . . here's an Instagram reel of my life, since I haven't included any photos here. We can go ahead and start planning to have babies if you've made it this far.
Feel free to connect with me on IG or email hi@datemike.info to introduce yourself; height, pics, and a social media profile are all nice to include. I do read every message.
Finally, if your instinct is that there's a better match out there for you, there probably is. If something about me or this post doesn't resonate with you, no need to be critical—just move on. This page will be a success for both of us if that's the case.
Thank you for your time and interest!
**End notes on religion, science, and the concept of perfection. (Are you sure you want to read this? It's pretty long. Super long. Longer than my *cough* grocery list.)
To quote Richard Feynman: "I do not think that it is possible to take an adventurous and ever-expanding science that is going into an unknown, and to tell the answer to questions ahead of time and not expect that sooner or later, no matter what you do, you will find that some answers of this kind are wrong. So I do not think that it is possible to not get into a conflict if you require an absolute faith in metaphysical aspects, and at the same time I don't understand how to maintain the real value of religion for inspiration if we have some doubt as to that. . . .
"Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure—the adventure into the unknown, an unknown that must be recognized as unknown in order to be explored, the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered, the attitude that all is uncertain. To summarize it: humility of the intellect.
"The other great heritage [is the] basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual, the humility of the spirit. These two heritages are logically, thoroughly consistent. But logic is not all. One needs one's heart to follow an idea. If people are going back to religion, what are they going back to? Is the modern church a place to give comfort to a man who doubts God? More, one who disbelieves in God? . . . How can we draw inspiration to support these two pillars of Western civilization so that they may stand together in full vigor, mutually unafraid? That, I don't know. But that, I think, is the best I can do on the relationship of science and religion, the religion which has been in the past and still is, therefore, a source of moral code as well as inspiration to follow that code."
This from Isaiah Berlin is the core of my philosophy: "I am not a relativist; I do not say 'I like my coffee with milk and you like it without; I am in favor of kindness and you prefer concentration camps'—each of us with his own values, which cannot be overcome or integrated. This I believe to be false. But I do believe that there is a plurality of values which men can and do seek, and that these values differ. . . .
"Liberty, in whichever sense, is an eternal human ideal, whether individual or social. So is equality. But perfect liberty (as it must be in the perfect world) is not compatible with perfect equality. If man is free to do anything he chooses, then the strong will crush the weak, the wolves will eat the sheep, and this puts an end to equality. . . .
"Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice—all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end . . . the very idea of the perfect world in which all good things are realized is incomprehensible, is in fact conceptually incoherent. And if this is so, and I cannot see how it could be otherwise, then the very notion of the ideal world, for which no sacrifice can be too great, vanishes from view.
" . . . all the justifications of broken eggs for the sake of the ultimate omelette, all the brutalities, sacrifices, brainwashing, all those revolutions . . . all this is for nothing, for the perfect universe is not merely unattainable but inconceivable, and everything done to bring it about is founded on an enormous intellectual fallacy."
He also believed "faith in universally valid formulas and goals [is] an attempt to escape from the unpredictability of life into the false security of fantasy." That's what I believe too.