I haven’t really formed an opinion about Reese Witherspoon newish boyfriend Jim Toth. This is the guy she started dating about two seconds after she and Jake Gyllenhaal split – and I think they’ve been going out for maybe most of the year…? Like seven or eight months. There has been no gushing, no big famewhore moves, no formal roll-out in People Magazine. They are photographed every once and a while and seem to be enjoying a very low-key relationship. So it wouldn’t surprise me whatsoever to learn that they are going to be engaged soon – In Touch Weekly reports that Jim has been shopping for rings:

Nearly eight months after he started dating Reese Witherspoon, agent Jim Toth has been spotted at several high-end jewelry stores in Hollywood — and he’s been shopping for the perfect engagement ring!

“Reese wasn’t with him, because he wants it to be a surprise,” says a friend of Jim’s. “But he knows her style. The ring will be classic and beautiful, just like Reese herself.”

The pal says the couple has been talking marriage constantly, and In Touch recently reported that they have undergone religious premarital counseling together.

“Still, he wants the proposal to be unexpected,” says the insider, adding, “It will happen in the next few weeks.”

It will be the second trip down the aisle for Reese, 34, who split from Ryan Phillippe in 2006 after seven years of marriage. She dated Jake Gyllenhaal until 2009, but Reese “never considered marrying Jake,” says the pal. “She loved him, but wasn’t passionate about him. Jim is her ultimate guy.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

From what I know of this Jim Toth dude – an agent, a behind-the-scenes power-player – he seems like a good match to Reese’s self-professed anal-rententiveness and near OCD. She’s Type A all the way, and the dude she’s with better be too, or else be willing to put up with it. It might be nice to see her with someone who gets her out of that Type A shell, but I think that’s what Jake was to her, and that didn’t turn out well in the end. And I really respect that Reese is the kind of woman who doesn’t need to date “up” or date “famous.” She found a dude who is happy to be behind the scenes and they seem really tight. Good for them.

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