I put it all out there in hopes that, as they say, honesty is the best policy. I just feel that if i say it now and shes still interested even with my checkered past, then she must be a keeper and its better then telling her later only to have her leave because of it. I dont know what do you guys think? Check out my profile and please let me know what you think. Honesty remember!

Hi Tim,

While I appreciate your wanting to be honest and open, your profile blurb is a huge pile of words. There's a difference between being honest, and giving too much information. You mix in details about yourself, with your past history, along with various philosophy and platitudes. To top it off, you leave out any real organization, so it's just a huge, wandering paragraph.

If you're going to make people plow through all those words, you could at least do the ladies a favor and try to organize your thoughts. Break it up into paragraphs. Maybe write a little paragraph about who you are, now, then another about where you're from, then another about the women you seek.

I also think you'd do yourself a huge favor by editing out stuff that can be left unsaid. I don't know why it's important for people, who don't yet know you, to know that you grew up in group homes and had a history of drug abuse. So, you've made mistakes, but everybody does, and you could simply mention them broadly, and move on. No apologies, and no need to explain why making mistakes is important or how you've learned from them. I think you could've just describe some of your mistakes in a past-tense and move on to what you look for, in the future.

Lastly, for some reason, you seem to think that 25 years is an old, wise age. Get over yourself. You're still a young, good-looking guy, so you'll be OK. I'm sure it's better to have kids when you're younger than older (had my first at 42), but you can relax a bit. It's probably better to not put so much pressure on that point. Also, if you're so satisfied with your mistakes, you should be OK with making more, so just get out there and calm the f*** down.

So, basically, your list of interests is good. The photo is OK. A bit dark and blurry, and a nicer shirt and no hat would be better. The text blurb is way too long and rambling. At least you put a good amount of effort into it. I rate it 6/10.

Good luck!

Thanks for the tips buddy!