✅ Great sense of humor
✅ Never stops learning, always curious and open-minded
✅ Doesn’t have rigid gender norms embedded in his brain
✅ Willing to go to therapy
✅ Guileless in such a way that my screwed up brain can actually believe him a little when he says I’m attractive
✅ Persistently communicative, even/especially through difficulties
✅ Is happy to have shared interests/activities as well as separate ones
✅ Compassionate about my OCD, goes out of his way to make me feel safer
✅ Takes illness/COVID/disabilities seriously and goes the extra mile to protect others even when he’s mocked for it
✅ Good with finances/saving/budgets, and prioritizes frequent and generous giving to others in need
✅ Makes social connections more easily than I do
✅ and ok yes he’s hot
