It's interesting to see how my words can be interpreted. In the interest of avoiding interpretations of interpretations:

Love:

I don't believe in being fanatically dependant or fanatically independent. Both leave you alone and without yourself. I do, more and more appreciate the middle ground of interdependance, which in turn helps us build up the things we need to get better at.

About love "lasting": Loved and lost several times. Death, cheating, and more. Glad to have the sobering reminder and well wish, though. ;)

Love, though, is one of those few things that must be understood with the heart, not the mind. Most pain occurs when we try to understand something using our mind when we should be using our heart, or vice versa.

Relationships:

Where I've seen others succeed, a solid relationship of any kind (love, friendship, business, family) is about relating. To ones self, each other. We can only relate as deeply as we can connect. We can only deeply connect to others as deeply as we can connect to ourselves. Developing this connection is key. Developing communication, caring and most importantly learning to ask "What else could this mean?" and assume the best, instead of the worst brings people together.

The #1 barrier in the way to our own happiness and fulfillment are the barriers we need to remove within ourselves. Instead of being the cynical bastard I enjoyed being for many years, I found it worthwhile and more fulfilling to keep kindness and giving fashionable. It's not a curse that I'm wishing on women, or my fellow beings on this earth.

Approach:

Through it, while I am a worst case strategist, I don't dwell in worry. Worrying/Doubt is paying interest on money I'll never borrow. Resentment is taking poison myself and waiting for someone else to die.

Too much doubt isn't healthy. Neither is too much hope. It's good to be aware of what might be possible, worst and best case, but not to use it as an excuse to not try.

To me, it's about becoming a well rounded individual. What I learn with someone, from someone, I forever get to keep. The shortcomings in myself I get to bridge, are my rewards I get to keep. The same goes for when others randomly get something from something we say or do. Some of the best relationships are ones that are mutually, and indirectly committed to the growth of another.

My better halves:

When we, automatically assume the worst (doubt) about someone, or something, we divide.

About "female-stereotypical skills", I have no clue what you're talking about. I simply said women are men's superior in every way. How free thinking open-mindedness might choose to interpret that and stick it into a box of stereotypes is not tied to what I said or implied in anyway.

With social awkwardness, in the thousands of folks I've met in business, volunteering and life, there's far more males than females who suffer from this. Wishing someone to be open, warm, kind, giving is not a curse or a judgement, or a stereotype. It's just becoming, and being a well-rounded individual.

On the whole, females learn much more the social side of being human from the playground onwards. Women are far more socially, emotionally aware than men, regardless of their disposition.

When you've been in the trenches with both genders, you realize women truly have some gifts of intellect, emotion, and more, where they are far easier able to grasp and live by than most guys.

What's the saying, a guy will figure it out weeks later? :)