Greetings everyone,
Please accept my apologies for this late self-introduction. I have been lurking here for a month or two while I was working through a difficult relationship issue and only began making posts recently. Since the situation has been resolved through a combination of my research here along with a number of outside resources, I decided to go forward and self-disclose a bit in spite of the near-complete unsecure status of the forum (seeing that it is publicly searchable)...
Without going into too much detail, I am an Asian-American male in my early thirties who grew up in the Midwest United States. I was an expatriate in the Far East for over half a decade and recently returned to the US for an international/public sector professional position.
I have a strong interest in old world and early 20th century style, personal handicrafts, physical training and shopping. I'm also a bit of an Anglophile and almost exclusively dated English ladies overseas.
My reasons for coming to this forum evolved over time - I initially exclusively read the "Broken Hearts" section. Lately I have branched out and began reading and posting occasionally throughout the message boards. At the moment I'm in the process of recovering from being manipulated by what I recently discovered to be a textbook HPD girl, so please forgive me if I come across as a bit distant. Nevertheless, I'm glad I was able to come across this forum and hope to be of some service in the future while learning more about how a healthy relationship is supposed to be.