Poll about your former life

marriedfilingjointly

Who has some good horror stories from the dating years before you met DH/FI?

I just saw some wedding pictures and the groom reminded me of this guy who took me to his parents' house on the first date.  It was July 4th and we were going to go to a pool party and then watch fireworks.  He asked if he could run by his parents' house to grab something and they made us stay for dinner.  Then he got into a child-like argument at the table with them in front of me.  I made him take me home before the fireworks. 

marriedfilingjointly

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[QUOTE]I didn't date before H. Unless you count the stupid boy in 6th grade that took all my money at a dance we went to and spent it all on games and junk food. His mom made him pay me back and write me a letter saying he was sorry. Sometimes I wish I had good dating stories to tell.
Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]

That's actually a pretty good story. 

Most of my dating horror stories are from high school.  My friend was obsessed with becoming "popular."  The summer befoe high school, she tried to make me read these Popularity Plus books and sign a contract that I would only date upper-classmen.  No joke.  (Don't worry, we didn't stay friends for long).

She decided that dating football players would make us popular, so she set me up with her boyfriend's friend on a double date. 

We didn't hit it off at all.  Oh, and he also took us to his parents' house.  It looked like a trailer park meets Hoarders.  It was frightening.  I saw a pizza box move and it was because there was a mouse under it.

I told my friend to tell him that I couldn't see him anymore because my dad found out I went out with a senior and that I got in trouble.  So homeboy tells friend he is going to CALL MY DAD and tell him that he's a nice Christian guy and bla bla bla.  Holy hell.  Now I'm really going to be grounded forever. 

dmiller9274

A few of my friends and I went out in HS to go cruising a couple of towns over.  I met a guy that seemed nice and agreed to go out with him the following weekend.  We went to dinner and a movie, and because we were young and super cool, we drank a few beers out in his truck.  After the movie, we were going to go back up town to cruise (my friends were going to be up there too) and he smashed into a parked car.  Really f'ed up his truck and the car he hit. We hit hard enough that the doors to the truck wouldn't open.  So he looks over at me and tells me that he's really 29 (I was 16) didn't have license and had a warrant for his arrest, and that I should probably go before the cops got there so he didn't get in any more trouble for giving alcohol to a minor. So I crawled out the small window in the back of the truck, and walked a couple of miles into town to look for my friends.  Every time my neck or back hurts, I still like to blame him lol.

LesPaul

This was a very long time ago, but I went out with this idiot Seth exactly once.  He picked me up, and we went to the movies or something.  Then, when it became obvious where he wanted the date to end and I politely declined, he went off on how he wasted an evening on me, and he could have gone out with someone who would have put out instead of going out with me.  I should have known he was a complete dbag when he handed me his card - he actually had business cards made with his name and phone number on them.  Geez, I wonder where he is now.  What a moron.

marriedfilingjointly

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[QUOTE]So he looks over at me and tells me that he's really 29 (I was 16) didn't have license and had a warrant for his arrest, and that I should probably go before the cops got there so he didn't get in any more trouble for giving alcohol to a minor. So I crawled out the small window in the back of the truck, and walked a couple of miles into town to look for my friends.  Every time my neck or back hurts, I still like to blame him lol.
Posted by dmiller9274[/QUOTE]


OMG!  There are no words.

dmiller9274

I used to be able to find his pic on Ohio Department of Corrections website, but I think he's back out on the streets now lol

betrothed123

H and I were HS sweethearts, so there weren't very many before him.  However, I "dated" this one guy in MS that broke up with me because I didn't want to make out with him constantly.  He wrote me a Dear John letter that he handed to me in the middle of the lunch room.  The letter said he didn't want to be with me anymore, and that he'd really appreciate it if I didn't start dating his little brother (apparently every girl he "dated" dumped him for his little brother.  Good sign, huh?), and signed it "Love, Dan."

I was friends with his little brother so when he saw me later that day and asked why I looked so sad I gave him the note.  He brought it home and slipped it under Ex's bedroom door and ripped on him about it for weeks afterward.

kd.joseph

Well I have quite a few, but I've tried to block them from my memory.

I did date a guy who had a foot fetish (for a minute), he wanted me to put on high heels and walk all over him, especially his nether regions. Not for me TY.

Then I dated a guy, who lived with his mother, and one night on the phone she asked him a question, and he went off on her cussing her out and calling her all kinds of names. Yeah I didnt talk to him after that night.

Marrin713

After the split with xH, I had a few dates before meeting T.  Most of them were okay but two weird ones:

Weird #1 - I spent an excruciating hour at a Starbuck's with 45 year old Mama's Boy.  Yes, he still lived at home and he showed me I don't know HOW many pics of the nieces and nephews.  Apparently they were a very close knit family.  He was a nice man tho.

Weird #2 - I drove down to Greek Town to meet this one at a restaurant.  /We met at the bar where he was greeted with a "Hey Norm" enthusiasm by the others and proceeded to drink several drinks in a row and chat among his friends.  At dinner, he did everything in his power to turn me off, but the biggest turn off (besides the excessive drinking) was that I found out that he grew up in the same suburb of xH and knew him in high school.  When it was time to leave, he then asked if I wanted to stay the night with him since he only lived a couple of blocks away.  I declined and he dumped me with the parking valet and went back into the bar.

shaydenise

I was in LDR with a guy in college that was very short lived after this incident - as in ended immediately following.  I drove the two hours to go see him (which granted isn't that long) after not seeing him for weeks.  We were supposed to go to dinner then just hang out at his place and spend time together.  Well, "going out to dinner" meant going to his pastor's house for dinner and eating dinner with them and their five kids... okay fine.  Odd but whatever.  Except when we sat down to dinner they turned all of the lights off and we ate by the light of two taper candles...  and before we could eat we had to pass around bread and a goblet of wine (as in similar to communion)....  I was so freaked out and wouldn't drink from the wine (I didn't know these people from Adam!) which apparently embarrassed then bf.  Then after dinner we were supposed to go just relax together.  Nope.  We had bible study.  For. Four. Hours.  I don't know what denomination they were but none of what this "pastor" was "teaching" is what I actually believe as a christian so who knows what they actually considered themselves to be as far as religion goes.  I ended up driving back home that night.

The worst part was that he was NEVER like this before. I was totally blindsided.

SarahPLiz

Y'all have already heard abut the last x and his 6 years of mess. The guy before him was just plain dumb. i have no idea what was going through my mind. He wasn't even cute. I met him on Yahoo chat, and met him in person when I went home for the summer. It was a 2.5 hour drive to his house and I did that every week. He lived with his parents, quit technical school, and quit a job at Popeyes because they wanted him to work more than 20 hours a week. He was a big Insane Clown Posse fan. I paid for everything, including hotel rooms. He stole my baseball card collection that I started when I was 5. 

I broke up with him over Yahoo chat when I got back to college, telling him that he was a lazy bum and I wanted nothing to do with him since he wasn't going anywhere in life. He then proceeded to tell me that the reason I always paid was because he didn't want me to know he had illicit income from illegal arms trading. What a crock! I set him to ignore, laughed about that for days, and never spoke to him again. 

After Katrina demolished his home town, he sent out an email saying everyone was ok and where they were staying. I guess my email was still on his list, even though it was like 6 years later. As far as I could tell, he was still living with his parents. 

And his teeth were funky. 

LesPaul

This reminds me of another one-date-wonder I had between exH and DH.  I think we met on match.com.  Nice enough guy on the phone, but the first question out of his mouth when we met for coffee was my position on Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.  OK, I'm a Christian, but not usually the first thing someone demands to know when meeting for the first time.  And, he brought his 13 year old daughter with him to our first coffee date (huh?), who let out the loudest belch I have ever heard in my life when we were sitting at the table chatting.  Yeah, that was the last time I saw him.

salt78

I was out on a first date with this guy...he was really cute and seemed really together and everything was going so well. Both of us had finished our beers so I offered to go up to the bar and get two more, but when I got there, the bartender told me that the keg had just run out and they were changing it. No big deal right? So I'm standing there waiting and shooting the shiit with the bartender when my date comes over all livid and practically yells "What is taking so long!?" at the bartender. And I explained that they were just changing the keg and it wasn't a big deal and the guy was all huffing and puffing and acting like a total psycho asshole.

So I asked for my check and left. Obviously I never talked to him again. 

kd.joseph

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[QUOTE]Y'all have already heard abut the last x and his 6 years of mess. The guy before him was just plain dumb. i have no idea what was going through my mind. He wasn't even cute. I met him on Yahoo chat, and met him in person when I went home for the summer. It was a 2.5 hour drive to his house and I did that every week. He lived with his parents, quit technical school, and quit a job at Popeyes because they wanted him to work more than 20 hours a week. He was a big Insane Clown Posse fan. I paid for everything, including hotel rooms. He stole my baseball card collection that I started when I was 5.  I broke up with him over Yahoo chat when I got back to college, telling him that he was a lazy bum and I wanted nothing to do with him since he wasn't going anywhere in life. He then proceeded to tell me that the reason I always paid was because he didn't want me to know he had illicit income from illegal arms trading. What a crock! I set him to ignore, laughed about that for days, and never spoke to him again.  After Katrina demolished his home town, he sent out an email saying everyone was ok and where they were staying. I guess my email was still on his list, even though it was like 6 years later. As far as I could tell, he was still living with his parents.  And his teeth were funky. 
Posted by SarahPLiz[/QUOTE]

I think we've dated the same guy. I've had those WTF was I thinking dates too.

Night_Sprite

I didn't grow up in podunk even though I live in the midwest.  That's why this is particularly weird.  I was on a date in summery wedges and the guy wanted to take me to this state park outside of town without telling me so I could change from cute to hiking clothes.  He got lost, I mean, driving around in the middle of nowhere aimlessly before GPS on country roads in the dark lost.  

He then found a lake, so he took me walking on the shore of this lake (still in the wedges, nearly dying in the sand and breaking my ankles), then put his jacket down and asked me to lay on the beach with him.  It was wet from dew accumulation.  I was young and couldn't escape, so I did.  He then tried to kiss me, the single most awkward kisses I ever received in my life.

I told him I was bisexual and getting back together with my girlfriend, but I did give him a kissing lesson on another occasion.  He was nice and VERY idealisitic, but a terrible kisser.

ETA: Writing this out made me realize how weird it actually was.

Night_Sprite

There was another guy who took me out on a date and was the same height as me.  This was awkward because I didn't really think about his height and wore these UGLY clog heel things on our date that were about 4 inches tall.  He was the level of my collar bone when he was going to kiss me. 

btrflykate1230

Actually, funny story.

I went out on a date last weekend with a guy. He seemed really nice, sweet, whatever.

All of a sudden he said "Okay, I have something I need to tell you. I have a friend who lives in California who I'm technically married to. See, she was going to get deported if I didn't marry her and needed a  green card."

I was kind of like, "Uhhhh."

betrothed123

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[QUOTE]There was another guy who took me out on a date and was the same height as me.  This was awkward because I didn't really think about his height and wore these UGLY clog heel things on our date that were about 4 inches tall.  He was the level of my collar bone when he was going to kiss me. 
Posted by Night_Sprite[/QUOTE]
This reminded me of a guy I dated in HS.  He was really short.  We went to a HS dance together and the whole time we were dancing he kept staring at my boobs because they were at eye level for him.  I asked him to please stop staring at my boobs and he flipped out because what the hell else was he supposed to look at?

zippityb

I went on a date with a guy in high school who took me to the movies and when we got there told me he didn't think he had enough money for our tickets. I handed him a twenty to cover mine, but it turned out he had enough cash. BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE ME MY TWENTY BACK. I finally had to ask him for it. We saw Enemy of the State, and he tried to put his arm around me and was denied. That movie seemed like the longest movie ever. It was just so awkward. I didn't even wait for his mom's minivan to stop moving before I jumped out when he took me home. I think he called me again but I pretended like I wasn't home.

Another guy called me a lesbian because I wouldn't go to a Third Eye Blind concert with him.

shaydenise

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : This reminded me of a guy I dated in HS.  He was really short.  We went to a HS dance together and the whole time we were dancing he kept staring at my boobs because they were at eye level for him.  I asked him to please stop staring at my boobs and he flipped out because what the hell else was he supposed to look at?
Posted by betrothed123[/QUOTE]


HA HA HA!

Night_Sprite

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : This reminded me of a guy I dated in HS.  He was really short.  We went to a HS dance together and the whole time we were dancing he kept staring at my boobs because they were at eye level for him.  I asked him to please stop staring at my boobs and he flipped out because what the hell else was he supposed to look at?
Posted by betrothed123[/QUOTE]
B, you should have just told him to close his eyes and lay his head on them.

LessThanZero

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[QUOTE]I am embarrassed to say that H and I started dating when we were 17. Before that I really only "dated" one other guy. He took me to see the SECOND lord of the rings as a first date even knowing I hadn't seen the first one.. and he didnt pay- high school stuff really. No biggie. I am pretty lame.
Posted by Starmusica[/QUOTE]


I'm kind of the same way. I really only had one other serious relationship before FI from the time I was 18-20. And I've been with FI from 20 until present.

I never "dated" so to speak. I just dated the two people who ended up becoming serious boyfriends.

Sometimes I wish I had any good stories, but at the same time I'm glad I don't have any horror stories. Works for me.

betrothed123

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : B, you should have just told him to close his eyes and lay his head on them.
Posted by Night_Sprite[/QUOTE]
That would have been problematic.  Our relationship ended because I didn't want to have sex with him and he told me if I didn't he was going to pull me behind the bushes and rape me.

SarahPLiz

In HS, my friend B's cousin was in town so a big group of us went to the movies in my car. He sat next to me, but it was no biggie because we were all just friends watching a movie. The guy I was really crushing on was there too. 

Anyway, 3 weeks later, a bunch of us were going out again, and someone found a note in the back seat of my car from B's cousin, saying that he really liked me and wanted to see me again before he left town. He must have thought I clean my car more often than I do. My crush had a great laugh, as he is the one that found it, and he still mentions it sometimes, since we are still BFF. Weird HS boys!

Anysunrise

Well, I had one serious relationship before FI, which wasn't so much painfully hilarious as it was just bad. We basically broke up because I didn't want to have sex every time I saw him, wouldn't let him stick it in my butt, wouldn't let him sleep with other women when I wasn't there (2 hour distance), and I apparently played too much WoW (from the 24 year old still living with his parents and who does nothing BUT play video games all day). 

He's just an awful person. He insisted that I buy all new clothes and go goth, because that's what he liked. When I picked out a corset for my birthday present he wanted to buy me, he called me a money-grubbing whore because it wasn't one he liked. He got drunk and hit me across the face during sex. Overall, just a fvcking douchebag. 

ANYWAYS. This happened to FSIL, who's going to school down in Texas. She had a date with this guy who went to the same college she did. One of the first questions out of his mouth was "Have you ever dated a black man?". She thought he was kidding, so she was like "Well, not yet but if Tae Diggs came up to me I wouldn't turn him down, lol." So he responds with "So you would." And she got all awkward and was like uhm, yeah why wouldn't I? Turns out he's very much racist, and told her he was looking for someone with the same values he had, and yadda yadda, but thanks for her time.

She was kind of taken aback, but at least he was open about it off the get go.

SarahPLiz

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : That would have been problematic.  Our relationship ended because I didn't want to have sex with him and he told me if I didn't he was going to pull me behind the bushes and rape me.
Posted by betrothed123[/QUOTE]

<div>Oh yeah, because that would make you like him. WTF? </div>

Night_Sprite

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : That would have been problematic.  Our relationship ended because I didn't want to have sex with him and he told me if I didn't he was going to pull me behind the bushes and rape me.
Posted by betrothed123[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : Sometimes I wish I had any good stories, but at the same time I'm glad I don't have any horror stories. Works for me.
Posted by LessThanZero[/QUOTE]

I agree. I wish I had funny stories to tell, but at the same time I'm glad I didn't experience any of these horror stories. I told H he is never allowed to leave me because I am not going back into the dating world. My best friend goes through men like her life depends on it and all she does is bitch about how they don't treat her right and how she feels like a slut for sleeping with them all. Well, stop picking the losers and keep your damn legs closed, genius.
 

betrothed123

Yeah, he didn't understand why I broke up with him after that.  But don't worry, ladies, he got his.  The next day a group of my guy friends brought him into the bathroom and beat the snot out of him.

Anysunrise

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[QUOTE]Yeah, he didn't understand why I broke up with him after that.  But don't worry, ladies, he got his.  The next day a group of my guy friends brought him into the bathroom and beat the snot out of him.
Posted by betrothed123[/QUOTE]

<div>*high five*</div>

MeaghanandMichael

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll about your former life : That would have been problematic.  Our relationship ended because I didn't want to have sex with him and he told me if I didn't he was going to pull me behind the bushes and rape me.
Posted by betrothed123[/QUOTE]
holy crap B. This makes me just want to give you one huge bear hug. ::HUGS!!::