Nearing 62 and being single is very hard on a guy that lives for love. Having a few health problems of my own (but I can still kick butt on most of you youngin's, and the fact there is not a lot of women near my age that are available, it is next to impossible to find that special someone that is right for me. Certainly not out my back door. Unfortunately all of my immediate family has passed on, so there is really nothing to keep me from relocating if that's what it takes to find the right one. I'm a picky guy, but only to the point that a good woman to me is just that, a good woman. So for me, I will not trade off good standards for good looks, however I would like my significant other to be pleasant to look at. With that being said, I guess the one thing I can give up is geographical boundaries. So, when it comes to the most important element in life (as far as I'm concerned), Love, what would you be willing to give up for that special someone that fits your needs.

Give up? Not a single thing. If she and I got as far as 'love,' what I am is a known and acceptable factor.

I would GIVE everything. All that was in me. I'd do all I was able to to ensure it never changed.

Give up to FIND love? Same answer. Not a thing. If a relocation is something that one wants to do for whatever reason, cool. Lots and lots of wonderful world to see and experience. Don't fool yourself into thinking that 'things would be so different if only I weren't here' though. No matter where you go, there you are.

It's a question of putting the cart before the horse for me, I s'pose.

Be someone that can be loved, and that starts with loving yourself. Until you do or unless you're a master showman, the love of others is quite a bit more difficult to garner. Someone I knew called it the Law of Universal Attraction. How we feel about ourselves draws a similar response from others.

It's all in the focus. Change from 'I' to 'You' and magic occurs.

Good luck, partner.

I believe you missed my point. Of course we give our all to make a relationship work, or it's not going to. But that in itself can mean giving something up. But to say you wouldn't give up anything, well, then that's pretty much a one sided affair. For instance, I gave up smoking for my second wife. She simply would not marry me if I continued to smoke. It was reasonable and fair request. Any bad habits, drinking, drugs, hanging out with the guys every night after work, there are some sacrifices you just might have to make for that significant other, and some she might have to give up for you. It's what I call compromise and it has nothing to do with you liking yourself or others liking you.

Give up?? Not a thing if I have to give up something then to me it is not love...

This>>>

Doing everything alone, single serving meals, half my bed, that sort of stuff.

Definitely not NFL football on Sundays,or no day for that matter,sorry!

Then I would gather that NFL football is more important to you than a Relationship. Hypothetically, You meet someone that is everything you want in a woman, but she has a brother that died due to a football injury, so she has a very hard time emotionally with the sport in that just seeing a football brings her much pain. She ask you to not watch it at home and not to mention it around her. What then? (Frankly, I would have a hard time giving up my Saints, but really, how important is it)

In regards to giving up your heart. If you did that, what would you love her with
. In a relationship you don't give up your heart inasmuch as two hearts beat as one.

Don't you think that a significant part of a relationship is compromise, and doesn't compromise mean giving something up for the other?

Compromising is to agree to disagree and move on.. I would not be with someone that I have to give up something that I enjoy just because it is something they don't enjoy... To compromise on that type of situation is not to give up but to have me time so each can still do things they enjoy. Then do the things you enjoy together that both like...

To me you take the person for who they are, not go and change them to be who you want them to be.. Those type of situations never work out.. Only one that benefits is the one making the other one change. The other is left in the end wishing they could still do what they enjoyed when they first met that person...

Compromise to me and my guy is coming to the agreement, neither one will get everything we want but we will work together to make his or my needs into our needs and wants.

Will I give up for love anything about who and what I am.. Not a snowballs' chance nor would I want him to.

Relocation big deal in this world I can be pretty much anywhere I want in about 10 hours including overseas.

I am a NFL and NHL fanatic he isn't so I watch games and then do something he wants...

there is a difference on compromising on what kind of tv shows to watch, what to make for dinner or where to go on vacation and ...compromising who it is that makes you who you are

When I married I gave up reading as my husband didn't read and wanted to talk instead. I did this for 25 years (sneaking in the occasional novel when he wasn't around) but it did cause resentment and since we separated I have returned to my reading with a passion. I wouldn't give it up again and don't see why I should.

^Indeed.

OP : Give up sounds like a defeat. Let's just say you found it & you gave up on yourself i.e physic, attributes, etc. Was it all for show & tell to lure / attract "it"?

Edit. Agreeing with TX.

Agreeing to disagree is one form of compromise. When 2 people start out in loving relationship, They will not know everything about them, they will hopefully spend the rest of their lives learning about each other. They may be things that the other can't tolerate, but you could easily give up for the sake of the relationship. It certainly is two way street. Perhaps if more people were able to give up something for the sake of the relationship the divorce rate wouldn't be so high

yes, taken out of context it certainly does. But giving up something for someone is a totally different concept. As in giving up smoking for my ex wife. I love to smoke, in fact, after we divorced I took it back up. But it wasn't as important for me to smoke as it was for me to have her in my life, at least not at the beginning of the relationship but obviously not after 10 years, things changed. Of course, no one thinks at the beginning especially after accepting marriage that it's going to end in divorce, but obviously something changes in the course of the marriage to make it not work like it did when you started out. Giving up smoking is not exactly being defeated

I don't mean to be cruel or even blunt but here goes. You've married at least twice. In at least one of those relationships you gave up something because 'she wouldn't have married me otherwise.'

And you're here, now.

When a partner tells you, 'Change, or else,' you don't have a partner. You have a Master.

Be who you are. Shine at that.

I would give up nothing, and change nothing....

Perhaps being mature enough to recognize that you are two INDIVIDUALS CHOOSING to spend time together and not having to give up themselves for each others preferences.
Compromising on certain choices is fine but never giving up important aspects of yourself.
Divorce is sometimes the result of people thinking their mate is an extension of themselves or that they have a certain kind of ownership over the other...

wouldn't give up anything.people accept u as ur or keep walking.should always stay yourself as should the person you with