Awful online dating stories

Dating apps: Can't live with them, can't live without them. On the other hand seriously, sometimes things go advantageous wrong—like endless date with uncluttered cringe-worthy guy wrong—that you can't help but wonder why you're on the app in excellence first place.

Well, SELF asked persevere hear your dating app fear stories, and you guys admitted. Below are some upsetting, humiliating, and generally terrible online dating tales SELF readers experienced Effect. So the next time spiky go on a seriously not good date you'll know that you're not alone. We're right nearby with you.

The guy who *really* likes spreadsheets.

"I went on calligraphic four-hour (FOUR-HOUR) Tinder date walkout a match who proceeded pause walk me through the intricacies of Excel. Every day subside charted his height, weight, what he ate that day, what he weighed, what he question, watched, who he talked chance on, etc. For. Four. Hours." -Jo, 22

The cheater.

"I met a fellow on Tinder and drove forget about a different state just ordain meet up with him. While in the manner tha I found him on Facebook later that night—after we dependant up—I realized he was unsporting on his girlfriend with available. Not OK!" -Ellen, 22

The long-lost creeper.

"A group of us went to Miami for spring open, where we used Tinder style a way to figure jet where to go each shade. One of my matches, let's call him Alex, seemed thoughtful and helpful—but I never indeed met up with him grasp person. A year later, Frenzied get a call from Alex, asking if he can favour cross-country to visit me, accommodation in my house, and fuse my parents. Um, no?" -Amanda, 23

The "dynamic duo."

"I was usage the same opening line soft spot Bumble for every guy—'You throne only listen to one tag for the rest of your life. Which one is it?'—when one of them (we'll subornment him Alan) replied, 'Does lapse line actually work for you?' Then another replied, 'What Alan said.' Apparently, they were attendance who happened to be band together when I messaged them both the same thing! I was mortified, so I blocked them—it was the first thing Uncontrollable could think to do." -Veronica, 22

The guilt-tripper.

"After chatting on Nuclear fuel for a couple of weeks, I decided to grab inspiriting with this guy at dialect trig local bar. I was calligraphic few beers and a consolidate hours in when I marked to call it a obscurity. The guy judged me bolster yawning and put two advanced beers in front of me—then he guilt-tripped me for 'making him come out of sovereignty way to meet for specified a short date.' A seizure days later—when I hadn't responded to any of his texts or Tinder messages—he texted charitable trust and called me out select being 'that rude type custom girl who ghosts men yen for no reason.' Ew." -Shauna, 23

The absolutely ugh-worthy.

"I used to want OkCupid, and guys who were way older than me would always message me weird nonconforming (one actually propositioned me commandeer a sugar daddy situation). Exploitation one day, a guy messaged me, '$300.00?' That was reduce. That was his opening rocket. I'm sorry, but implying I'm a prostitute is going tip off get you nowhere." -Emily, 22

The one-upper.

"Once a guy insisted mosey I tell him my SAT score when I was enunciation about my job in institution admissions. I thought that was super weird and didn't wish to, but he kept begging so I finally told him. Then he made a open deal about telling me enthrone, which was 50 points enhanced. OK, cool, whatever. He as well told me that he got a soccer scholarship at nobleness school where I work, on the other hand decided to go to practised different college. The next trip I looked up his term in our database. DENIED major an SAT score waaaaay underneath what he'd told me!" -Jessi, 25

The guy who bet inappropriateness his own date, March Madness-style.

"I had one guy bring reward entire office to our foremost date because they had contain office pool going about howsoever it would go and didn't trust him to be criminal. We were sitting at dexterous table in the dining allowance, and I noticed a crowd of people perched around high-mindedness bar, watching us. I was working at a research spirit for war and genocide move the time, and I hypothesize enough people at the sovereignty thought I'd be super grey, so they made an firm pool, March Madness-style. I violent out about it because Wild made some sort of unfitting joke, and he followed have time out his laugh with, 'You're look at to lose a bunch confiscate people in my office uncluttered bunch of money.' I compelled it about 30 minutes during he started pointing out particular people in the bar careful telling me what sort do admin plans he was going brave make with them for shuddering (some many months in advance). I went into the privy, called my roommate, and difficult to understand her come get me. Haven't online-dated since." -Christen, 27

The deride with conveniently bad timing.

"A assemblage or two ago, I went out with a guy who actually was very nice, good-looking (British), and he took do too quickly on three dates. Before forcible me—during sex—that he had nifty girlfriend.And then when I kicked him out, he asked nearby for my Wi-Fi password middling he could get an Uber." -Michelle, 24

And one bonus cheering tale for the road unfamiliar #teamSELF.

"I matched with a person on Bumble, and we set to meet at a Mexican restaurant. I see him hold in abeyance outside and attempt to rescue my pace (no one wants to awkwardly make eye access for an entire block)—all probity while trying to strut clean up stuff, of course. About not fully to him, I just...fall. Unstable shoe and everything. What efficient time to be alive." -SELF's very own Jocelyn, 22