She’s out there Linc, really she is. And you will find her

Ps. What the heck is wrong with wearing flip flops in subzero temperatures?!

A linkback would have been nice. >

Anyway, your ideal woman actually DID exist. She gave birth to He who died for the world and saves the sinners. Except she did have an ego too, a big one.

Seriously, Linc, you have to reconsider the mind games and the ego thingie. All women have egos bigger than the Goodyear Blimp. How are we supposed to raise kids if we aren’t the people in the world who “know it all. really.”? Developing a healthy ego is a preparation for the woman’s ultimate vocation, motherhood. For starters, ego is the one thing that sustains us (“I CAN do this and I will NOT die, damn it!!!”) when fear is gripping us by the bowels while we’re pushing future melodramatic bloggers out of our bodies.

^^

Linc, I’m sorry. I’m already married. But I’m sure there’s SOME other girl out there who meets those requirements. Buahahahahah!

@Christine: Nothing if you like getting your feet amputated.

@EvilWoobie: Added your link. Happy now??? Damn egotistical b—-…

You know, easy solution to that is to find somebody who doesn’t want kids. Then there’d be no reason for the ego. See? There’s a solution for everything.

@MrsMecomber: Maybe this would be a good time to add “Is a native New Yorker” to the deal breaker list.

“here’s my list of traits that would make me want to love her up”

*sigh* I used to be with a girl that cracked 11 of your 13 “good points” – then I got complacent and it all went wrong. :braveface: Live and learn eh? :braveface:

Let this be a lesson – keeping hold of them is just as important as finding them!

@Mou: What’s her number?

So you don’t want a native New Yorker? What’s worse…someone born there, or someone stupid enough to move there?

@Casey: Well now, if she’s willing to move here just to be with her darling love snuggles, how could I hold that against her?

Casey, LOL!

Lincoln: So what’ll it be, Francis, Benedict, or Ignatius?

By the way, THAT JOHN ADAMS MOVIE LOOKS SO COOL! Thanks for that ad! I didn’t know a new one was coming out. Ever see the PBS movie directed by Elizabeth Deane, titled “John and Abigail.” One of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s also got a romantic bent, so right up your alley.

What John Adams ad? (goes to refresh page) … oh there it is! They must have finally reactivated it.

I can’t wait to see it either, but I don’t have HBO so I’m gonna have to wait till it comes out on DVD. I did see the one on PBS and thought it was awesome. John Adams is bar none one of my favorite political heroes.

honestly, linc, it’s not going to be very comfortable for your dream girl on that pedestal. need i say “pagaragon?”

good luck finding her, though!

OMG. That’s a loooong list. hehehe.

Well, I’d try to help you and hook you up, but unfortunately, I don’t even think I’d even want to be friends with the girl you mention… She sounds boring… =)

Good luck to you though…

John Adams is bar none one of my favorite political heroes.

We love John, too. My favorite is Sam Adams (affectionately called “Sammy” around the house). He just had this unique way with words, for example:

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom–go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

Isn’t that just heavenly? ahhhh

We don’t have HBO, or TV for that matter, so we have to wait for the DVD, too. I’m looking forward to it. My daughter, an American history expert, read McCullough’s 1776, and said that it “wasn’t bad” (i.e., not filled with nonesensical historical revisionism).

That’s a lot of eyerolls.

OMG. That’s a loooong list. hehehe.

Really? that was just the shortened version too.

…I’d even want to be friends with the girl you mention… She sounds boring… =)

I’m almost afraid to ask what would make such a girl NOT boring.

and how old are you, Lincoln? I might know of a girl for you. A mother can be prejudiced though.

@Karen: Well I was born in 76, so that would make me… 25.

:D

25, eh? And born in ‘76? Cool, that means I’m only 24!!! I like the way you do math!

@Beth: I love new math.

“She lives to play mind games (unfortunately this might rule out all the women on the planet.)”

C’mon, Linc! Please have a little more faith in us women. There are a lot of females out there who don’t want to play mind games, and in fact, hate them. Please don’t stereotype us all like that. I’ve enjoyed your blog so far, but if I keep running into broad generalizations like this one, I may stop reading.

@Amanda: Are you being honest, or are you just playing mind games with me?

well…

wat you want is kinda hard to find!!!..

maybe you could try me…

but i can see we really not meant…

Linc, she sounds great, she really does but what’s so wrong with a meat eating, reality show watching, dirty joke laugher? Open up your horizons and you may be surprised that a whorish exterior can be hiding a vestal virgin.

I don’t laugh at these doity jokes, and neither should she. There’s something just not right about an excessive love of reality shows too.

Yea, I really don’t like reality shows. I don’t understand the fascination. Also, I find the men and women fake…kind of like regular television LOL. They also never seem to know how to properly hold a glass of champagne, either.

I never “get” dirty jokes. I’m that naive, innocent and sheltered LOL.

I can’t STAND those shows. I stomached watching New Jersey Housewives the other day just for the experience and it’s not something I care to do again. I’d rather watch Law and Order. Or Psych, or Burn Notice, or Eureka…

hey she’s out there everyone has a match you just have to find yours and except them and their flaws

Thank you Hayley!

you just said all of the characteristics of a kid. I meet those characteristics (I’m 15).

you’re definitely going to have to look within a church for her.

there’s lot a lot of good people anymore.
but good luck.

You know Linc, I think your list is right on; your not asking too much. And there is a woman out there that meets that (partial) description… I hear there aren’t many like this but you’ll find one. And just so you know, pizza is a well rounded food, you can have a breakfast pizza, a BBQ pie for lunch, and as for dinner, even putting salad on it is acceptable….it is one of the few foods you can eat that is the three best food groups in one! You’ll find her [not all women have PMS].

Take care,
And (but) why would someone wear ’slaps’ in a blizzard? And what if she wore wool socks with the flip-flops?

‘All women have egos bigger than the Goodyear Blimp. How are we supposed to raise kids if we aren’t the people in the world who “know it all. really.”?’

I respectfully disagree. Humility is what is needed when you’re facing an innocent soul to whom you must teach all they need to live and love by. Not knowing something is no sin, in fact it teaches them that everyone has things they don’t know, as well as faults, they can then be more forgiving of their own.

Lincoln, your list is not unreasonable, it’s not asking too much. It’s the minimum you should require. Nearly every point on your ‘need’ list is related to character. Pizza? Maybe not, but the points about affection, strength, modesty, charity, respect, these are exactly what you need. I agree wholeheartedly.

“She makes me want to be a better man.”

And she should feel that you make her want to be a better woman. Mutual respect, can’t beat it.

Thanks for your comment, and I can’t disagree. It’s a shame that as reasonable as the list is, very, very few women in the US would qualify.

You are the kind of guy iam looking for but i want every meet another one like you so i am happy for what ever woman gets and tell her i said conggrats on getting a wonderful man

well the more i thought on it my boyfriend is pretty close to that in soem ways but i also want i guy who i can just fall in his arms and cry when i need to or just have him comfort me but thats not who he is so…..

Becky, if your boyfriend doesn’t do that for you then why is he your boyfriend? Better to break it off than continue a relationship like that.

Thanks for the compliment though.

I think most men want a woman with these qualities and most women used to have them. Sadly both men and women have fooled themselves with casual sex and the “lightness of being” in place of courtship,love and marriage.

I don’t think people want to be like this but it’s been a sad and easy trend these past few decades. I am so glad to know that you still value the importance of such qualities. That’s 1 for the Human condition!

Be careful not to get stuck, thinking of yourself as being without–even though you are now. A bitterness could sink in. You’re too young for that.

(Save that for old age when you may be entitled to some.)

Be charitable in your heart even toward the suffering from loneliness because true charity is not tested by an easy life.

Your natural good humor is an invitation to the right one.

Love,

Your Roving Poet

Too late, I think the bitterness already set in back when I was in the third grade and the object of my affection kicked me in the shinny after I gave her a Valentine’s card.

But on the upside, I’m able to at least reduce the bitterness somewhat in my life as long as there are such things as cupcakes and ice cream.

Speaking of cupcakes, have you checked out @TxCupCake on Twitter? Perhaps your love of cupcakes and Twinkies made me think of her cute face and Texan conservative nature…don’t know. But, see what you think.

Followed! I’m surprised too, because I thought I pretty much had 99% of all the conservatives on Twitter covered, yet somehow I still missed her.

Mmmmmmmmm…. cupcakes…

All right…

lawls.
oh yes, that women does exsist.
but it’s the rest of the men in this world who can’t appreciate such a being that led her to change her ways infact, i’m sure alot of women has the potential to be such a way. but because of americanized influences on relationships, and the conformity of this chaos of demands and expectations of being appealing to get someone to want you. Has driven many women away and made their defenses go high which results in their tendency to play mind games to protect themselves and , because they were forced to use such a tactic for such a long period of time since dating begin it became apart of their personality, embedded into them. so really you can’t blame em’. But, as for the women thing, get to know a girl. i’m sure you’ll find someone, or perhaps help them find themselves. and you two may live happily ever after : )

I think Aiko makes a kind point in the end, but I would have to argue that Americanized influences mean you acknowledge your strength in overcoming pressures to conform to weak and negative traits. Blaming one’s weaknesses in character on others or one’s culture reveal the source of the problem.

I think Linc is looking for someone stronger in her womanhood and he is putting himself on a (sometimes quirky, Americanized) path of being a stronger man who will attract such a confident, loving woman.

I like being americanized.

Well, that’s who I WANT to be, who I’m going for…

@Emily: Well that’s a start!

well that kind of girl exists it’s just a little hard to find. but it’s great that there are guys out there like u that arent all abt superficiality. u sound a lot like my bf actually so i like that i hope u find that girl! break a leg!

If you really mean that, dump your loser boyfriend and give me a buzz.

All of those requirements fit me…. though I am still under the age of 15. So, sorry to let you down… really, I am.

That’s ok, you have your whole life in front of you, and it’s more important that you focus on and get through school… and college… and get settled into your career before finally dating anyone… maybe.