I am former military, I am divorced twice,(so I made bad choices, but I couldn't read unspoken intentions and agendas very well either).

I have a full time job, beside my kids. (no one is propping me up, no child support either) My kids and then my dogs are my pride and joy, they are truly first in my mind, everyday, always. (Wow, this is like heresy in this "new" progressive liberal American mess)

I like the outdoors.(TV has a way of driving thinking people away from it.)
I have strong opinions and I don't back down.

I have some pet peeves, but all of my married years taught me some important things.
I am not a sugar daddy, don't want a sugar momma either.(no easy handouts coming from here)
I EXPECT that any self respecting woman would be taking care of her self and her kids (if applicable).

I don't like compulsive/obsessive/possessive people, liars, cheats, gamblers, thieves, chronic whiners/"victims", addicts and emotional manipulators.
I will not be your "fixer".
I tell it like it is (and no I don't have the cleanest language either, but I try to keep it civil enough).
If it fits, wear it, like it or not. I walk the walk that goes with the talk.

I believe that the Ten Commandments were meant to be a social and civil guide to how people SHOULD act.

I would rather be alone (be a single adult) than put my family at risk.

By now you are wondering if I am the stereotypical male obsessed with big tits, beer, baseball/football and NASCAR. I am not, nor do I care about any of that crap. I also don't care for shopping, eating out, crowds, habitual drunks. I am very different in so many ways.

I do so love to allow people to realize on their own, that jumping to conclusions tends to allow folks to make asses of themselves.

The sun comes up and it goes down, it would be just another day.....(I go to church and hang my own head for my personal shortcomings and failings, my mirror in the morning tells me every day I am not perfect). I don't need/want someone to criticize me when they don't get what they want, (like I really need somebody to tell me that). I have got friends that I value for their frankness, tats why they are valued.

YOU MUST HAVE TO MESSAGE ME:
your own reliable transportation, a job, and be sane.
I will say it again, SANE as in, not crazy, neurotic, co-dependent or otherwise unpredictably erratic (Wow, I have realistic expectations while looking for a truly one in billions woman).
Please don't message me unless you can write something mentally and intellectually stimulating in your message that will set you apart from every other ad on here. (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!)

For instance, "Hi, how are you" is like having a drunk breathe their wino breath in your face, tainted with cigarette smoke, and as assaulting as too loud music of any stripe. It is lame and unattractive and frankly, all too common.

Find words that make sense, that says something intelligent and speaks to a higher mind, before you hastily stab the send button and immediately think to yourself, "I shouldn't have sent that....". It is called buyers remorse, if you are wondering.

If you have the daring enough to hit the send button for a message, show that you are something more than lipstick, plastic, and paint (UGGGGHHHH!). Have some sort of charisma, some sort of interesting attribute that would get my attention over the rest of the vanity and self indulgent excesses of fancy like "dream man", the "ONE", the "perfect man", that is pasted lazily into 99.8 percent of the profiles here.

When you obsessively search for sickly delusional perfection in your sphere of reality, you will find a loneliness that you cannot escape even though the exit is well marked and the door is open.

If you message me, really be SOMETHING or SOMEONE different rather than the woman with an attached brood of mistakes in your life, rolling around in your transparent bubble of delusional dreams and self pity. "Oh I was so done wrong by my ex...." refrain is well, a cop out for failing to understand life.

Yes, I am a single Dad by circumstance, and yes, I might bore you with that tragedy, that is, when you NEED to understand where I come from.

You either are a woman of some substance, or you are something else much less desirable than just some bland photography and one dimensionality of Plentyoffish.com.

You will now feel unsettled and left wondering why my profile seems to insult you so much. I tell it like I SEE IT.

Do I know you...probably not, BUT DO YOU KNOW YOU?
What does YOUR profile say about YOU, (freudian slips anyone)?

I am a single dad, so I KNOW about being tired, I know about a messy house and endless laundry and frozen dinners and guilt because I want to give my kids more than I can afford, I know about barely making ends meet with my paycheck, I know about self denial of wants to make sure that the kids get what they need and occasionally something more because life is not fair but the limits of the paycheck is hard reality to live with.

I understand you do the best that you can or you do what you do in whatever way you can and live with that on your conscience. I get it. I also understand grand ploys for attention and ways to supplement your household income by gaming men and probably the "system".

I personally don't want the contents of your fridge, your wallet, your heart or empty promises or the fables hidden in the vacuous space between your ears.

I want real, I want responsible, I want substance rooted in reality not fantasy worlds or ideas.

Does this sound like you?

So I will end my profile with this thought.
I am tired of the fake women who use this space to fill with "Cookie cutter" fantasies and rubber stamp profiles, hung up on the fraud called the "American dream" of picket fences, and idiot knights in shining armor(easy to walk on), 2.3 kids, Mcmansions and a life rooted in easy over extended credit.

I am tired of unoriginal thoughts and uninspired profiles that say nothing of substance but speak tons. I am tired of self serving women who peddle their kids on a dating website, I wonder who is worse those who actually pimp them on the streets or right here pretending they don't. Instead of being honest, they play a game of feigned innocence about their own intentions and declare LOUDLY and boldly "NO SEX TO BE FOUND HERE". Go back and hide in your icy freezer.

What person in their right mind goes on a dating site and makes the claims for all the things they are NOT looking for? If that is the case, WHY are you here? If you screen out everything that includes living in reality, then you must have far deeper and sinister ideas.

Intimacy doesn't come from sweet nothings murmured over staticky cell phones or shopping bonanza's unless your really pathological, so who is fooling who, Huh?

The problem with saying too much is the same as saying too little.

You either sound like every other hard luck story or a liar by omission.