Giving the Slip
My Very Worst Date really wasn’t a “date” per se, but I thought it was absolutely too ridiculous and terrible not to share: I am in graduate school and have been flirty with a guy, Joe, almost ever...
View ArticleOh, Canada!
I was 19, had just been dumped by my fiance (“I love you, but I’m not in love with you. I don’t want this to change our relationship….”), and was feeling pretty down. One night, catching the bus home...
View ArticleZero Tolerance
A couple of years ago, I met a guy through a friend of a friend at a barbecue. He was cute, charming and really funny, so when he asked me out, I said yes. He said he’d pick me up and take me to a...
View ArticleA Good Sport
I had just broken it off that morning with my boyfriend of a few months. I was feeling down about it, but had already committed to attending the Bulls game that evening with seven of my fun...
View ArticleA Sharp Mood Kill
Most of the posts that I read on here are about how MVWD can be blamed on the other person. In this case, I’m pretty sure that I was, inadvertently, someone else’s Very Worst Date. I had been divorced...
View ArticleA Skeevy Serenade
None of this was ever intended to be so much as a potential date, on my end. When I was 17, I took a gap year between my first and second year of uni in order to focus on my music and see if I wanted...
View ArticleSpit And Run
MVWD happened during a stressful time in my life. I had been helping to care for a terminally ill relative, so when J from an online dating site asked me out, I jumped at the opportunity to get out of...
View ArticleA Smashing Good Time
It all starts with being overprotected by my dad, who never lets me do anything or have a boyfriend. My senior high school dance was coming up and I was, as usual, waiting for someone to ask me out....
View ArticleCaught In The Lie
I’ve been single for a couple years after getting out of a crummy long term relationship and had been casually dating from various internet sources. Mostly, things had gone well but I hadn’t really...
View ArticleEcstatic To Be Here
My college roommate decided that she would set me up on a blind date with a friend of hers that I would “just adore.” I had never been on a blind date before, but agreed to meet this fellow at the...
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