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If you're an introvert, you've probably heard at some point in your life to just "get over yourself" and go talk to that person you've been stealing glances at because, after all, "What's the worst thing that can happen?" Well, surprise, surprise, a lot of things!
Threads user @mickeytuna asked everyone to describe the most messed-up date they've been on, and the replies that came in make singlehood sound like a blessing. From weird body language to repulsive hobbies, you never know how dreadful the scene is until you put yourself out there.
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#1
Long story short, found out he was married when his wife texted me like 2 days after we became official. He is no longer married and I have a new bestie now
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#2
She bit me. And I mean, she CLEARLY saw it as flirty and playful and I do get that. But she broke the skin. And REFUSED to let go when I said she was hurting me. I finally snapped at her to please stop. She deflated like a balloon, then began that silent “I can’t catch my breath” sobbing. I could feel every eye in the restaurant on us. I paid, apologized, and took her home. She was silent the entire ride, then before she got out told me I was making a mistake by losing her.
Yeah, no.
#3
Met a guy through one of the apps. Made sure he *knew* I was an athiest, no interest in religion at all. He insisted he had no problem with that. Get to the restaurant, sit down, and he hands me a wrapped gift. It was a book about coming to jesus. Shortest first date ever.
Michael Largey 16 hours ago
"Excuse me, but I just can't wait. I'm going home to read it right now."
These experiences aren't just anecdotal. According to a study commissioned by the dating platform Tinder, which surveyed 8,000 heterosexual adults aged 18–34 across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, a striking 91% of men and 94% of women say the current dating environment is more difficult than ever.
And as cringey and disappointing they may be, most aren't scared away. More than half (53%) of men and over two-thirds (68%) of women say they want a romantic relationship.
#4
At his house, dude came strutting out wearing nothing but a ridiculous zebra print thong/pouch thing. I instantly laughed, thinking he was doing this for comic effect. He was not. And proceeded to get whiny and refused to accept an apology. Had it been a solid color I would not have laughed ; it was the silly zebra stripes that set me off.
#5
I had an appointment with a new gynecologist in the morning and a blind date that night. Same guy. Did not recognize me. So awkward.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 17 hours ago
If the night was more successful then during foreplay he might have recognised you.
#6
Tinder date - I had two cats at the time, this guy knew this, it had come up in conversation. First date, everything is going well, there’s banter, it’s comfortable. Then I start talking about my cats and he shuts down. I ask if something is wrong and he goes oh I just hate cats, if I ever see one I kick it. I walked out and blocked him
Nicola Roberts 9 hours ago
W*F He dislikes something so intensely that he feels compelled to inflict pain , or worse, and he thinks that’s normal enough to say out loud,
"The general state of the world is sensed as less predictable and less secure [than in the past]," says Kathryn Ford, M.D., a psychiatrist and couples therapist based in San Francisco and author of 'The Aperture Effect: A Radically Simple Approach to Finding Joy and Connection in Your Relationship.'
For some people, this lack of predictability and security results in an increased need to find a partner, while for others it can create a hesitancy to make decisions and commitments, Ford explains. Which, as we can see from the stories, can lead to a lot of awkward situations.
#7
We finally added each other on Facebook. We had like 40 mutual friends, but I didn’t look through all of them. He asks me how I know this one girl he saw was a mutual. I ask why he’s asking. He said “oh I hooked up with her at a party and never got around to unfriended her”. IT WAS MY LITTLE SISTER
#8
So many to chose from but my favorite was the time I went to a guy’s house for the first time and he made me watch 40 min of videos of him driving a plow truck through snowy parking lots (I live in Iowa, this is not impressive, and I don’t think it would be even if we lived somewhere without snow). Then he told me that HE STILL LIVED WITH HIS WIFE AND SHE WAS UPSTAIRS, I told him I was no longer interested in pursuing anything with him. He got super offended and told me I was being unreasonable.
#9
I was 17 and it was one of my first dates ever. A childhood friend asked me out to the movies. The guy wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom alone, kept saying women need a firm male hand to live a pure life, and got all gropey. I literally snuck out during a loud scene, ran to the restaurant next door and called my stepfather to come pick me up. That guy called my house for weeks pissed I would insult him like that.
Sara Frazer 5 hours ago
I'm sure that now he has a podcast and/or is in the orange bàstàrd's cabinet
#10
1st time this particular date came to my house. My cat was being ... well a cat. I moved her off a throw she was making biscuits on so she didn't damage it. She did a cat and as soon as I sat down, went back to start doing it again. Date lept up yelling with fist clenched that he would sort that bastard cat once and for all. He was really raging. Nope nope and nope
#11
Lady tells me right out of the gate, “I’m a triple Scorpio. I’m intense. I’m deep. You’d better not cross me! Etc.” She wanted Thai so I took her to a noodle spot. I wore a nice black tshirt (nice fit, no graphics), dark jeans and nice boots, had a nice haircut. She was not dressed up. We ate and talked, I paid the bill; no chemistry. I said bye and gave her a hug. She texted me after-said I didn’t look nice for the date, didn’t take her to a nice enough place & she never wanted to see me again
#12
Went to to go see a girl I liked that I thought was having a mental health crisis. She said she just wanted to drive around and talk. So we did. We got blue lighted coming out of her apt conplex and refused to pull over. Ended up leading us on a high speed chase in 3 diff counties and we got pit maneuvered by a state trooper
#13
I woke up, the guy I was seeing slept over but left before I woke up. So I go to the bathroom and see that he had diarrhea all over the toilet, floor, rugs, bathtub, shower curtains, etc. I was so horrified I went back to my bed - pulled back the cover to see he had [pooped] the bed as well.
Con O Cuinn 17 hours ago
I'm not defending him, but like, I kinda get it. W*f do you say after that? There's no way you're cleaning that up in someone else's house without help anyway and I just don't know how you ask. I think she might not be the only person who never heard from me again, I might have to disappear entirely, join the French foreign legion or something, get a new identity.
#14
I went over to this guy's apartment to smoke and chill. I was young and stupid. Please don't come for me. I get there and we go to his bedroom and start smoking. I've been there for five minutes and someone knocks on his door. He goes out to check who it is. 15 minutes pass. He texts me it'll just be a bit longer. 25 more minutes pass. He texts me telling me that it's his ex outside and asks if I can please leave through the window.
#15
Has been on a couple of dates, wasn't going anywhere & I called her to end it. Before I could:
Her: I wanted to talk to you about last night, im really upset you didn't try to kiss me
Me: I didn't think you wanted me to
Her: I didn't, I'm REALLY upset you didn't try.
Best I can tell, she really was very unhappy about it, it wasn't an act.
#16
Mid-80's. Older woman at the gym fixed me up with her son. He arrives with a red rose and I was gob-smacked. He was GORGEOUS and sweet. He wants to take me to the latest "video bar" for drinks and dancing (it was the 80's, y'all!). We hit it off on the ride over and I was really getting exited. We weren't in the bar 5 minutes when he says "I see someone I know, I'll be right back". Next thing I know he is screaming and crying at another man and his wife. Turns out it was his boyfriend.
#17
Spent the night at his place, in the morning he wakes me up at 7am “you have to leave, my mother will be over soon to clean up”.
#18
Not my story but my friends... she met a guy online. They go out for a coffee date. He's attractive, articulate, well dressed, funny. They really hit it off but she runs a background check anyway. So turns out he's been arrested for bigamy more than once. There are news articles about him. We found his Facebook page he's got loads of friends, but all the female ones have multiples of the same first name... like 20 Amy's, 15 Jessica's, 10 Leslie's...and so on. Yeah she went ahead and blocked him
Robin Roper 10 hours ago
A little bit of Monica in my life A little bit of Erica by my side A little bit of Rita's all I need A little bit of Tina's what I see A little bit of Sandra in the sun A little bit of Mary all night long A little bit of Jessica, here I am
#19
I went on a date with a guy who I thought arrived in an uber. I was sitting down in the restaurant so I didn’t see his driver or see him arrive. Apparently it was actually his girlfriend who drove him! He told her it was for a business meeting. I found out… eventually
#20
I went on a coffee date with a guy. He was a reeeeeaaal dim bulb. He kept asking me what the words I was using meant. I have a decent vocabulary but I was just using like, normal English words like “meander” and “mortified.” Then when I finally got away, my car had been towed. Had to get a ride from him to the tow lot to pick up my car so it ended up costing me almost $200 to have a terrible night and be a human dictionary.
#21
Dating app guy. We meet. Cliche- he looks nothing like his photos, is significantly older, and 5’6” maybe- not the 6’1” he claimed to be (idc about height. I do care about multiple lies). He finds out I’m working in a vet hospital and then shows me dozens of photos of his black lab, immediately followed by asking me about every single condition he thought the dog might have. I suggested he bring her to the clinic with his concerns. He adamantly refuses. “She’s just a dog.” I walked out.
#22
He didn’t want me to know what car he drove because he was afraid I might be a gold digger. It was an Infinity. Like good for you I guess, but where’s the gold I’m supposed to be digging?
#23
He was in a Maroon 5 cover band, which I did not know before our first date. Instead of driving straight to dinner he surprised me by driving around for an hour so I could listen to him sing along to his own cd. An HOUR.
Peeka_Mimi 15 hours ago
My psycho ex did that. He'd make me watch the same video of his band on YouTube over and over again. He was always watching it. I should have seen that he's a narcissist, but it took me a bit longer.
#24
I went on a night date with a guy who showed up to an Italian restaurant wearing white yoga pants. White. Yoga. Pants. At night. To a packed restaurant. And of course — he hadn’t made a reservation. The place was completely full, so he actually begged the waiter to let us keep a table for 30 minutes before the next reservation arrived. That was red flag number one, but unfortunately I decided to be kind instead of smart. We sit down. A few minutes into small talk, he starts talking about his mom
Then… dramatic pause. Full silence. And suddenly he starts sobbing. Not tearing up. Full-on, shoulders-shaking,not breathing crying. I’m thinking, oh my God, this poor man just lost his mother. So I gently ask if it was recent. He says, “It was about 15 years ago.” Fifteen.Thankfully, the waiter comes to reclaim the table. But he is not moving. The waiter asks once. Twice. Three times. Finally I basically order him to get up.
And just when I think the night cannot possibly get worse, as he’s paying, he turns to me and asks if I can add 10 AUD because he ran out of money.Sir.!!!You wore white yoga pants to a fully booked restaurant you couldn’t afford and trauma-dumped over pizza
#25
His car was filled with garbage and vomit remnants. It smelled like a hot dumpster. He tried to act like it was no big deal. I did not speak to him again. He started working at my job a few months later
#26
I’d met this dude in passing at church and said yes to a late afternoon coffee date. As we finished our coffee, he asks if I’d be down for dinner. Yknow what, sure. Guy brought me to his sisters’ joint birthday party (1 year and 3 days apart) at his mom’s. It was 2-3 weeks after their preacher dad passed away. There was a card from dad to one of the girls- they didn’t know which. Much sadness and tears. Then he like ANGRILY insisted we watch Hard Candy. It was supremely, INSANELY awkward.
#27
Not mine but my wife’s before we met. The guy is all kinds of odd and she thought she’d have him over for dinner at her mother’s house (I mean, I love that…) anyway, the dude starts telling her and her mother how “sensual” a turkey is… we’ve been together for 25 years and still laugh about the “sensual turkey guy”
#28
First date. FaceTimed his mom so she could “inspect me” to make sure I wasn’t “fat”. He mentioned that she wanted to know if I had any “fat friends” because they’d influence me to gain weight. He also told me I wasn’t allowed to eat cheese or bread in front of her. Truly a sick woman. So much more happened that date too. There wasn’t another date needless to say.
#29
Went on a first date with someone who proceeded to tell me he was still in love with his on-again-off-again ex after we just so happened to drive past her apartment. He later proceeded to share throughout the date that he’d been quite promiscuous, which has led to STDs and then further shared that sleeping around is a way he copes with depression for which he’s been hospitalized on more than one occasion. I don’t know what truth serum he took, but my god, did he lay it all out on the table.
#30
Went to a restaurant and the guy tried to vape on the patio where we were seated. The waitress caught him and told him he couldn't do that. He tried to lie and say he wasn't going to, he was "just holding it" (juvenile) then as we left he flipped her off and she screamed us out of the restaurant, but I hadn't seen him do it so I was VERY confused about why she was screaming at us 😅 I told him goodnight and came back and apologized to her.
#31
I had a line in my online dating profile that said "I don't care how tall you are😆"
I had a date that made me change that.
He had a really nice pictures of him at the gym but when he showed up ISTG he looks like he was about 12. I thought Chris Hansen was going to jump out and arrest me. He drove a lifted truck and was VERY SHY. Had a creepy high pitched giggle. I changed my profile to say "you can be short or you can be shy, pick a struggle!"
He was about 4'5".
Seriously.
fly on the wall 16 hours ago
So what is the problem with being short? I have a friend who is short and he is incredible- he lights up the whole room when he enters. Charisma to the max!
#32
Had a blind date. We met, walked around, asked a few questions and realised. That's not it.
So we stopped the date and each one was going home. I had quite a long way. Nearly an hour of public transport and two switches.
And I saw her every damn time.
Even at my home station.
I avoided to speak to her and fell extra behind to not make it more awkward.
Welp right in front of my house she waited for me and shouted: What's the matter?! Stop stalking me.
#33
Had a date off an app 2nd time so brought his overnight sack. Long flowing gorgeous hair, smart medical researcher. He goes to use my bathroom, why this man come out asking why I don't have any meds in it? Pain pills I ask, nope he wanted hard stuff to steal. Made sure he didn't come back but regretted it, he was fine all over AF.
#34
Met a guy at a bar in college and we really hit it off . We danced and talked all night , etc. We go back to my place and smoke with my roommates and everyone likes him . Finally , we go to bed and do the deed. I wake up the next morning and he’s gone , but not only that ; all my roommates prescription medications were stolen . I was heartbroken and LIVID, not to mention embarrassed. Worst part ? 5 weeks later I find out I’m pregnant .
#35
Was invited to a casual party, just people celebrating life.
I'd only met her a few days previous at a friend's gathering. He told me she was cool, and a fun person to hang with, that she had asked if I was single. So I said sure.
It was an engagement party turned wedding, and she got all possessive when her friends started asking about me.
I freaked out big time and told her I was leaving, that she should get a ride home from one of her friends.
I literally had to block her everywhere.
Cat Palmer 6 hours ago
I was confused why the lady in the headscarf in the photo was holding an orange lollipop when everyone else had a glass of drink: could they not find her anything suitable to drink? Then I realised it's a paper umbrella - they all have paper umbrellas in their drinks, and that raises even more questions.
#36
Met this guy, hit it off, exchanged numbers. Asked if I wanted to go to a movie, sure why not? We had a bit of time to waste, so we walked around a mall that was right next to the theater. This guy took me to a Kay’s Jeweler and tried to get me to try on ENGAGEMENT RINGS. On our first date.
#37
Went on a date. He never blinked or smiled. He just stared at me the entire date. He had that deranged look. He kept mentioning how pretty I was, but it was strange. I kept feeling like he would jump across the table and randomly attack me.
#38
Had a guy ask me out for a first date and asked if I’d mind double-dating with a friend of his. I said, “sure. Why not?” It was just pizza. The double date was with his Ex of less than 1 month and some other guy. None of them had an ounce of personality and my date and his ex were uncomfortably weird throughout. I ended up carrying the conversation and entertaining them until I could escape.
#39
I invited a potential date over to hang out at my place. He came in his WRX, and brought his own brew of beer. I don't drink, but my house mate and his partner did. So they shared. We all then sat down to play Monopoly. It was supposed to be a fun afternoon of getting to know each other. He lost at Monopoly, and cried, throwing some of his game pieces around in a tantrum. He was firmly asked to leave. I was 25 he was 28.
Beak Hookage 14 hours ago
You know, this reminds me of the time I went bowling with a couple of male friends. Afterwards I said that was awesome let's do it again sometime! One of the guys looked blankly at me and said "but you LOST" (and I did, miserably; I am terrible at bowling). He seemed shocked when I said I didn't care; I had fun anyway. Winning isn't everything.
#40
On a first date with a guy I met on Hinge. Bad conversationalist. Asking him a bunch of questions, getting nowhere. Asked his favorite holiday, a standard question. He said thanksgiving. I then asked his least favorite holiday. He said JUNETEENTH. This was almost 3 years ago and it still blows my mind. No, he wasn’t black.
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Chrystina Sumpter 44 minutes ago
Reading these makes me so glad I have been happily married for almost 25 years. I don’t think I could ever do dating again.
Chrystina Sumpter 44 minutes ago
Reading these makes me so glad I have been happily married for almost 25 years. I don’t think I could ever do dating again.
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