Internet dating stories

10 Real Stories From People Who Met On a Dating App

I t's Connect with a guy on Plenty of Fish. He picks me up at my house. We head to an ice cream shop. He has just come back from army basic training and the topic of conversation will only be about what physical stuff he has learned how to do there. I try to change the topic to literally anything other than how fast he can climb something and hand-to-hand fighting tactics, but to no avail. We exit the ice cream shop. He puts me in a headlock.

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For the month of February, we asked readers to tell us their love stories. These personal essays are the best ones we received. I was a staunch anti-online dating person. Believing only desperate people and murderers used dating sites, I resisted the advice of my friends for years to sign up.

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Anyone who has ever used a dating app should know that the odds of actually having a good date are fairly slim. In fact, being on a dating app for a long time more or less guarantees that, at some point, you will have a truly awful date. Or, in some cases, a truly horrifying date.

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Stingy, Obsessive, Fake: The Worst App Dates You’ve Ever Been On

After a while of him trying to cuddle me, I politely asked him to leave. Afterward he sent me overtly sexual messages, and I asked him to stop contacting me, at which point he lashed out, called me names, and commented on my weight. Blocked him.

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