Grumpy Old Man
Grumpy Old Biker Bastard
Perhaps the word "Nice" is wrong. Reading yours and Nef's posts I realized that the word can have different connotations to different people. I too, have met people who are artificial and saccharine.
Instead of Nice, insert the words "Decent and Kind."
My husband is the first and only man I've ever had a personal relationship with whose ever been absolutely decent to me, never hurt me, never lied to me, never used me and never emotionally manipulated me.
However, I don't consider calling a spade a spade being anything other than forthright, whether you're a man or woman (in fact, we consider honesty 100% critical). And as for occasionally being in a bad mood, that's being human. Since both he and I were abused children it's easy for us to blame ourselves if our s/o is upset or angry. We have a deal, if you're in a bad mood just tell the other that you're in a bad mood and they didn't cause it. Needing that reassurance may be hard to understand but it goes back to some of the emotional manipulation I've lived with. My ex (and my father) were very good at making me feel like their bad mood was my fault, like I failed or fucked up somehow. It's very hard to break out of something that you grew up with and then went and married yourself into, rationalizations and therapy aside, sometimes you just need a little reassurance.
It's pretty simple, either you respect and care for your mate or you don't. Respect gets you respect and caring/loving gets you the same back. Unless you are looking for empty headed idiots both come male and female. Then please do not breed and when you are old, single, bitter, alone then either eat a bullet or in oceanos case use a short rope.
I agree with MM velvet, tat, smury and the old hag.