dating

All about dating. First dates, three years into a relationship, Tinder, and more.

Horrible First Date
I'm like a good majority of this current generation by trying a dating app like Tinder or POF (Plenty of Fish, if you don't know what that means), and not all of guys I met on them were horrible, but there was one on POF that was the worst I've ever encountered. A few of the reasons why I decided to try a dating app are because I'm usually busy with work, I tend to be very shy, meeting new people does make me nervous sometimes, and it seemed like the easiest and best option for me.
By Erika P8 years ago in Humans
#MyWorstDate: High School, Snow, and Jellyfish
My worst date was my very first date. Late to the game of understanding social cues in how to speak to boys and grasping any idea on how to manage a boy “like liking” me, my first date didn’t happen until I was a 16-year-old sophomore in high school. Jittery and anxious, I had found out that this boy had somehow developed feelings for my awkward, shy self. Memory fails to recollect how I found out about his intent to take me on a date, but I remember glancing at him in the school hallways and receiving sporadic text messages from him on my Samsung flip phone. I had never been better at T9 text messaging. All of this was happening before I grew out of this awkward stage, so I was ecstatic, but probably more nervous than anything, when I knew I was finally going on my first date.
By Ti Ana8 years ago in Humans
The Love Drug
It all began the middle of my 6th grade year. I had gone to this amazing Christian Youth Event called Fusion 3D. It was here that I met... him. He was one of my "boyfriends" (cough cough crush who I wasn't allowed to date) best friends. He was handsome and a total bad boy; every 13 year old girls' dream! I had met him before that night since we practically grew up together but this was different. He was different. He was cuter, more dashing, and all the girls wanted to be with him. I was the lucky one that he caught in his net. He started his trap by flirting with me when I was with my boyfriend. Luckily my observant boyfriend was not-so-observant. This gave me a chance to create my fairytale romance. A damsel in distress who met a dashing villain. Of course my "fairytale" didn't begin quite yet but this was a start. My "boyfriend" decided to break my heart towards the end of 7th grade because he has fallen for my friend instead. Not only did he break my heart but his new girlfriend, that he left me for, found me later at school had asked for my PERMISSION to date him.
By Jacklyn Jones8 years ago in Humans
Addicted to Violence Part 1
Hands around my throat, heavy breathing, screaming, bodies writhing together. It sounds like something out of an erotic novel, but this was the worst night of my life.... or at least it would seem that way. To fully understand, I'll have to take you back to the very beginning of this story.
By Arizona Aleece8 years ago in Humans
The Worst Date That Didn't Happen
#MyWorstDate "Women's worst fear for a blind date with a man is that he'll kill her. Men's worst fear is that the woman will be fat." I've seen a few variations on this statement on the social media sphere. And though using "studies show" as the first two words of a meme often doesn't mean there was a study, I believe it. Though as a lesbian, it doesn't apply to me. Could that cute young lady I matched with on Tinder be a rapist or murderer? Yeah, it's possible. But it's not the fear that repeats itself over and over again in my head before I set out to meet her. That would be, "What if she doesn't show up without an explanation?" Not because it's a worst-case scenario, but because it's a likely one that has made me feel like shit when it's happened.
By Lauren Harsh8 years ago in Humans
Grindr and Pets Birds Don’t Mix Well
So I had just turned 18 and I had been using Grindr (a gay hookup app) just to peruse and look before I was of legal age, but now that I was old enough, I wanted to give it a real try. I was looking at and talking to some guys but there was one guy who caught my attention. He was a good looking guy (at least in his pictures). I sent him a message not expecting a response right away, but to my surprise he responded in 30 seconds.
By Duncan Eudy8 years ago in Humans
#MyWorstDate Distant Boys and Dog Slobber
I had been seeing this guy for a few moths, let's call him Mark, and we finally decided to go on a date. I know strange right? I left it all for him to plan and asked that he picked me up. The time rolls around for this date and he's nowhere to be found. I try texting, nothing. I try calling, nothing. He shows up half an hour late with his mom driving and comes up to my door. I'm just wanting to leave but my father has other ideas. He starts playing 20 questions with Mark who is already freaked out to even be in my house but then he notices the antique WW1 musket we have hanging on our wall and the boy almost pissed himself. My father was across the room from where the gun, which doesn't even work, is hanging and I see tears in his eyes as if he's seeing Jesus.
By Lilli Behom8 years ago in Humans
#MyWorstDate
This is when I was much younger, still a teen. (14- 15) I used to hang out at the skating rink, you know where they had some arcade games, some crappy cardboard pizza, bad kids smoking in the corner. Well, I used to hang out with my friends here EVERY weekend, Friday and Saturday nights. One of my friends brought a friend... I don't know if the guy was a friend or a creepy family member, that wouldn't stop hitting on me. He was not a very nice looking guy. Hairy in all the wrong places. Very tall, rather..... large, in many ways. He didn't smell all that great either. But I was a nice kid, I tried to get along with everyone, what did I know? I was young, didn't know much in the ways of dating and boys and such, so I went along with it. He asked me if I wanted to go to a basketball game, with his church group. (I was never really a religious type or church going but what the hey.) At the time I was a little sporty, I played for my township basketball team so I was like, "Sure okay." BIG mistake. The game was after one of my practices, so I got home and took a shower, washed my face, used some of those Clearasil pad things. Gotta keep those pimples away ya know. Anyway, my mom dropped me off at the location of the church where everyone was waiting for the bus to the game.
By Laura Copeland8 years ago in Humans
Getting Nowhere
When you think of adolescence, you think rebellion. Most people think of those movies, you know the ones where the girl sneaks out of the house for a wild night on the town with her number one? Picture that, except I had to also manage to take off the screen to my window without waking my then 16 year old brother and sneak off into the darkness. I was entirely out of my own league. I hardly ever did things of this nature. I was the goodie two shoes girl who sat in class dreaming of her goals and aspirations. The one that hardly any guys noticed because she didn’t wear push up bras. Finally, a year after I was out of high school, I was visiting my parents while I was home. A guy who I was talking to wanted to see me. Alone, at night, late at night, just us. I felt it necessary to have to sneak out even as an adult who was no longer a resident of their home but now a guest. I know, embarrassing. Either way, I still felt it inappropriate to waltz out the front door wake the whole house up and dramatically drive off into the night with some guy they never even heard of. I felt the need to sneak. Which I suppose should’ve been the first red flag before taking part in one of the worst dates I have ever experienced. It wasn’t just the worst because it totally fell apart... it was also the worst because I had unfortunately rejected his best friend not only a year prior to this outing during my senior year. Yeah, that date was also quite a mess. They’ve got a lot in common.
By Rose tree8 years ago in Humans
Best Date Ever
“What is the best date that you have ever been on?” It’s funny how she asks this. We were seventeen years old, eight o’clock at night, and we were on the phone, talking about going somewhere, anywhere that night. My mind was full of blanks—indecisive with my words. “I want go eat at Johnny’s, maybe Chili’s. What do you want to do?” She deferred to me, but I wanted her to be happy. I wasn’t the one to coax. I was nervous with this matter of where should we go and if she would be truly happy with the location. This was going to be our first date and I teetered with the thoughts of success and failure. She let out deep sighs that seemed to be frustration on her part. Failure seemed more imminent to me and success seemed to be improbable. I sat up on my bed, while my heart growled every millisecond. A slew of the growls led to heat that compressed my body, I was sweating. I was a mime looking at the mirror on my left, my words wouldn’t come out. “I really like her,” I thought, but that wasn’t enough to remove the thought of failure out of my pessimistic mind. “We can go anywhere Bernensky, anywhere,” she said softly. It was thirty minutes before nine and I broke free from my tenseness. I didn’t want to go far, I just wanted to talk to her face-to-face. I just wanted to see her face because I believed that there was something there that connected between the both of us. She was different, and as I put on my tight, grey jacket, I wished more girls like her existed.
By Bernensky Pierre8 years ago in Humans
#MyWorstDate ER Edition
A couple of years ago I decided to give online dating a shot and had met a seemingly nice guy for coffee one day. We had a great first date, grabbed coffee, and walked down by the lake. We even had a competition to see how many cute puppies approached us at the park. Fast forward one week, we made plans for a second date. We decided to meet up at the movies to catch a flick. While I was driving there, he kept texting me that he wasn’t feeling well. I would have texted him to suggest we reschedule but obviously couldn’t while driving.
By Shannon Marie8 years ago in Humans
My First Long Distance Relationship
I met this guy on the language learning app, HelloTalk where you put in your nationality and native language and the language you want to learn and it will allow you to connect to thousands of people who fluently speak your desired language and want to learn your native language.
By Emilie Westall8 years ago in Humans