Platypus
- Gender
- Male | 43
- Country
- Australia
- City
- Perth
- State
- Western Australia
- Height
- 5'10"
- Last Login Date
- Click here to learn more
- Age
- 43
- Eye Color
- Green
- Body Type
- Muscular
- Hair Color
- Mixed Color
- Ethnicity
- European
- Denomination
- Reformed
- Looking For
- A Long Term Relationship
- Church Name
- Church Attendance
- Every week
- Church Raised In
- Do you drink?
- No
- Smoker
- No
- Willing to relocate?
- No way
- Marital Status
- Separated
- Do you have children?
- Yes
- Do you want children?
- Undecided/Open
- Education Level
- Masters/Post Grad
- My Profession
- Encourager, Handyman & Creative Problem Solver
- Interests
- Jesus, Stories of all kinds, Relationship dynamics, Real Transforming Grace, children’s Book Illustration, Animals, Tree Houses, Gardening, Adventures, Road trips, Sleeping
- About Me
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I’m a very genuine and transparent guy. Honestly I am just for the moment wanting to form a meaningful friendship as a basis for a future relationship once my divorce is finalised. My ex left the country, and will not return. I am looking to the future now, despite my heavy heart about the past.
I have a very creative background, a powerful imagination that enables me to be discerning, perceptive, and rather good at finding beautiful solutions to problems. My real passion has always been relationships. Life is all about relationships. My interpersonal skills are well proven in family ministry and chaplaincy. But there is a toll for being empathetic and immensely thoughtful - entering into the mess of others lives to love them like Jesus. I’ve experienced burnout and heartache. I believe however this only makes me more self aware and useful in understanding and serving others.
I have two awesome boys, now 7 & 9. They are superb little fellas and they hold me here in Western Australia. I share them 50/50 with my ex, who I separated from when they were 1 & 3. I did everything I could to save that marriage, and my conscience is clear before God about that.
Divorce grieves me, and I think of my boys often in how it has/will affect them. I’m a Pastor’s kid, and perhaps it is good for me to experience the broken mess of our world firsthand and be stripped of any self righteous facade. We are all of us a beautiful mess before God. Clinging to the cross is the safest place to be, knowing exactly how much we desperately need him.
I don’t work with people’s messy emotional lives so much now, I work with my hands creating things and fixing things as a Handyman for a group of Childcare Centres. It’s great fun.
Physical affection, hugs, just being next to each other, knowing you want to be near me, really fills up my love tank, along with words of affirmation. But what you need is what really determines my skill set.
It will take a special woman to convince me that she can be trusted with my heart, and for me to reinvest my whole self once again. Humility and Grace, are truly beautiful and desirable things. A woman grounded in Christ, with a deep character shaped by him is a rare treasure. But of course, a beautiful mess she will be. I think it is a difficult thing to be a wife to someone less than perfect. Trusting Jesus gives me hope that marriage relationships can function and flourish. It is definitely easy to despair when so often we witness two Christians unable to resolve conflict and heal together.
I want to know the power of Christ’s resurrection in my personal relationships. Phil 1:21; Col 2:6-7.
- First Date
- Cosy cafe, or an outdoor picnic in nature, or a stroll alongside the river or the beach. Relaxed, easy to listen without distractions and no time pressure.
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