Online dating horror stories

I've tried my hand at online dating for the last 5 weeks or so and so far I've found it to be just a gigantic shitshow. An absolute waste of time. Its basically just a cattle mart - only for people. I've tried to get chatting to people and be open and engaging but nothing seems to work - after a handful of messages it's ghost town! What's the point

My horror story is that I don't have any stories. I still haven't managed to get a date.

Was the second date any better?

I met my husband online years ago, to be honest mostly had good experiences with it, but yeah the odd weirdo, for some reason, I use to attract middle-aged alcoholics or no longer drinking alcoholics, not the down and out types but the types that would be very familiar with the pubs on Baggot street often interesting characters. At the time you did get a fair few of the dense pests who were only looking for sex and seemed to get very annoyed why that wasn't working out for them plus a fair few with issues.

The thing that always puzzled me, was you would meet someone and on paper, it should have worked but no spark, human nature is complicated😅

A mixed bag but mostly good.

Maybe stop believing in finding the one and you will get on better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6gV2sdl38

Does the town where she lives start with letter C in a county that starts with letter K? I think I might know her.....does her name start with K also?

I met up with a girl a few years ago, we had nothing fancy planned, just have a chat in the car for a while maybe and walk around the park or something.

She texted me about 10 mins before our agreed time that she wouldn't be coming, no explanation or apology for cancelling. I was a bit puzzled but said ok no problem.

About an hour later she texted me again saying she was now free to meet up. I explained I was about to head home but she convinced me that I was already after driving into the city so we may as well meet up.

We met up anyway and chatted away getting on well enough. After maybe an hour I asked her was everything ok that she was delayed earlier on. She told she had cancelled as she didn't think she'd have time to meet me as she was having sex with another fella at the time!!

I half started laughing thinking she was joking. But no, she rode the other chap before meeting me without even having a shower inbetween 🤮 Thankfully we didn't kiss or anything.

We went our separate ways anyway and she later told me she was puzzled why I didn't ask her on a second date.

she was showing signs of borderline personality disorder, its common enough, a horrendous disorder, but its hard to tell, definitely some sort of psychological issues going on there

Jesus I've heard of serial daters but that's taking the piss.

A friend of mine said he went on a date with a woman who was not only married but heavily pregnant.

If the fella was 10 years older than his picture it means he sent you a picture of himself when he was 10 ........... and you agreed to meet up with him 😮

A bit weird for a 30 year old to be sending a photo of themselves that was 20 years old. Was it your man Creaven from RTE?

Did he only have the one photo or did he have a few and looked younger in all of them?

Come to think of it, most of my photos were taken well before the pandemic. They're not 10 years old granted, but I reckon I've a few more grey hairs now. 😆

I suppose the irony is that I've never needed to even try online dating.

But good luck on your own search. I hope that you find someone eventually.

No worries. I find that anonymous gimps like the other poster that feel the need to try to write something nasty that they think is "personal" towards someone else is usually projecting their own inadequacies. You just have to ignore them and laugh