I'm glad to hear that things are going well with you in your relationship. I've been told (ironically by friends, not anyone I've dated) that I'm controlling and that I hold my friends to too high of a standard, but I don't see it myself. I guess I don't see it because I'm big on the whole choice thing. It's not like I say, "Would you kindly..." and it gets done. But people do seem to try harder when I'm around. I've actually had a friend or two of mine say that they're afraid that they'll disappoint me, which is both good and bad I guess.
Generally, I go for stronger (and slightly older than me) women, but my current gf is a few years younger than me. She's not quite as "independent" as most of th girls I've been interested in, but we compliment each other nicely, and I keep telling her that she should give me more limits, but she insists that she wouldn't let me do anything to/with her that she didn't want me to do. She's so cute when she gets flustered/emberassed. XD