Relationship

Online Dating Horror Stories

These hilarious tales from women who logged on for love may leave you swearing dating sites off—or at least laughing your butt off!  

 

All in the Family
“It was my first time trying online dating, and I was nervous but excited. I filled out all the personal info they asked for and obsessively checked back for my matches. The first set came, and I immediately started looking the guys over. I almost gagged when I realized they had matched me up with my brother! How gross is that?” –Johanna, 29

Fur Real
“I wasn’t having any luck on the big dating sites. So I decided to try smaller, more personalized ones. I didn’t do any research before choosing one that sounded promising—just a quick Google search. Soon after joining, I started getting really odd messages from men on the site. Every single one asked me what my favorite animal was, which was so weird. Finally I asked one guy why that was such a popular question, and he replied, ‘Well, this is a dating site for furries’—aka people who get a sexual thrill out of dressing up in animal costumes! I was mortified and signed off immediately.” –Ali, 23

Dating Amnesia
“I went on a date with a dude I met from Match a few months ago, but we didn’t really mesh. Then, he recently messaged me on OKCupid to introduce himself—without recognizing me as the girl he’d recently gone on a date with on another site! I messaged him back to basically say WTF, and he never even answered.” –Anna, 27

Mama’s Boy
“This really hot guy and I had been messaging back and forth for a while before decided to meet up at a coffee place. He was seriously the perfect catch, so I was pretty psyched. I walked in looking for him when an older woman approached me. Long story short, she had set the profile up for her son without his knowledge and was pre-screening potential girlfriends for him! I was out of there in seconds.” –Dana, 23
A New Kind of Double Date

“Nervous to do try online dating alone, my friend and I signed up together, but on different sites. We each met a guy who asked us out to dinner, and we decided to arrange our dates on the same night at the same restaurant one after the other, so we could take turns watching other from afar. My date and I seemed to click; after we parted ways, I pretended to go home but instead snuck to a different part of the restaurant to spy on my friend and her date. Fifteen minutes later, my date walked back in and sat down with my friend! Turns out we both scheduled dates with the same guy who used different aliases on different sites. I’m glad we found out he was a scumbag before either of us went out with him again.” –Samantha, 24