Appropriate vulnerability and boundaries around personal information is an important topic. I had to learn this, and I see it all the time. People will overshare their personal history very early on in dating - disclosing mental health struggles, personal trauma, family strife... And I hear ya - you want to be "honest". But on the first or second date, or before even meeting in person, is generally much too soon to disclose this stuff. Hear me out... It's not dishonest to have appropriate boundaries with that deeply personal information. More often than not, early disclosure of that stuff functions both as a defense mechanism and (in some cases) desperation. The defense mechanism is "here's all the bad shit about me and all my pain, so if you're going to reject me because you can't deal with it, do it now." The desperation is "please someone love me, even with all my flaws." BUT, disclosing all of that when a person hasn't gotten to k...