50 Horror Stories That Might Make You Want To Delete Dating Apps Altogether

I am widowed and dating again. It's difficult to use a dating app as I came from a time before when I did very well and there were no apps. I met a woman and we decided to meet in Starbucks in Barnes and Nobles bookstore, which is attached to a mall. The conversation is going well. We walk into the mall, and she bumps into her ex. They start arguing and then hitting each other until they are fist fighting. There is a crowd now and security comes. I duck into the crowd and make a beeline to my car. She texts me to later to apologize but comments why I didnt step in for her defense. I just said not interested and I block her response.

We went to the biggest coffee place in Munich Marienplatz, crowded as f**k as a first date

Wasnt catfished, she looked hot and all, but, but, we talked for like 3 hours, all great, up until she went on her knees, proposing to me.....creepy? Everyone looked at us and were at first disappointing, angry looking at me for saying obviously no, she rushed out in tears

....had to tell the 100+ people around me that IT WAS OUR FIRST DATE.

I got catfished. She was heavily editing her photos using facetune or whatever.

At the date, we were talking and she just pulled up her phone and started mindlessly scrolling on social media, at that point I just stopped talking and she was like "yeah yeah you keep talking I can hear you".

The worst part is that I went to another city to meet up with her.

One of my more unique experiences was when she brought her 10yo sister to the date. The sister was more fun to talk to.

I was catfished. I thought she was legit, and we talked for months. I went to go visit "her," and it was a guy, claiming to be her best friend, and she had to run to pick up a friend who was drunk. The woman in the profile never returned, and he was trying his best to get in my pants.

A friend of mine who is a journalist matched with a guy and started chatting. She didn't get his surname so she couldn't Google him. He showed up to the date and looked very different from his pictures, alarm bells. She found out his last name and excused herself, went to the bathroom and googled him. The first article that came up was from him being sentenced to prison for armed robbery. She was the journalist who wrote the story!

So I started dating a girl a few years younger than me. Everything was fine, we seemed to have a lot in common. One day she called me crying telling me that her dad died. It was really unfortunate and I tried to help her process this as best as I could


Some time later I got a call from my grandma telling me her younger brother died, asking if I want to attend the funeral. It was a bit surprising as they had a really bad fight about inheritance like 30 years ago and as far as I know never interacted ever since.  


I actually didn't make anything out of it at first, only that it's an unfortunate row of tragedies. Well you can already guess who I saw at the funeral. It was extremely awkward but now I know that apparently I have an aunt who's younger than me lol.

Gay Japanese dating app. Met a guy who was oddly excited I had a car. Asked if I could stop by somewhere for him, thought it was minor. 3 places later realized he was just using me for the car to move and pickup stuff.

The overwhelming amount of people with asian fetish in northwest ohio. The amount of times I’ve been sexualized and infantilized is insane. Doesn’t help that I look way younger than my age and is 5’2”.

Met her in a park near my house. Very early on she mentioned she was hungry and, if I was down, we should go back to my place and order a pizza at some point. Sure, I was down, but wanted to let the date play out a little and see if we vibed before inviting her back. She was relentless. It was clear the pizza was the only thing on her mind, and being a dumb horny dude, I had the very slight inkling that maybe going back to my place could lead to something fun. So we go there, we order a pizza. I pay. She doesn't offer to pay or thank me for paying. The second, and I mean the SECOND the pizza is ordered she immediately shifts topics and starts going on and on about how we would make such great friends.

That we vibed so well, that she enjoyed talking to me so much, that she would never ever ever f**k me in a million years, but I was like her platonic soulmate! She even went on to describe other non-sexual male friendships she'd had in the past and how it was sooo funny to her to be able to tell these guys wanted sex while she only saw them as buddies. Now, I like to go into dates with little to no expectations, and if the vibe between me and somebody else is legitimately closer to friendship than romance I have no problem with keeping things platonic. But she was hammering the point home to the point of being insulting.

Bare in mind, we've known each other less than an hour at this point, and she's done nothing but talk about herself. Suddenly I'm getting diatribes about how me and her are gonna be besties for years to come. And, again, just in case I missed it the first few times, constantly working into the conversation that nothing romantic or sexual is ever going to happen between us.

Now, none of this would have been much of a problem if it had been brief. I've had many a date where it was obvious early on they were not interested, and I was mildly annoyed at having to pay for something before we quickly went our separate other ways, that's all fairly standard. But after this girl turned me down and ate her free pizza, she just...wouldn't...leave. Let's throw on a movie, let's smoke some weed (my weed btw), she just made herself comfortable on the couch and hung out for like six hours, I swear to god. We met up at 1pm and she stayed till it was dark out. I had an actual friend who was supposed to come over later, and I tried to use that as an excuse to kick her out, but she refused to take the hint and just hung out with both of us once he got there, like we were all old friends and nothing was unusual about any of this.

When I FINALLY was able to walk her to the subway, she again monologued about how this was the start of a great friendship, how we were gonna be in each other's lives for a long long time and how glad she was to have met me. Five minutes after I said goodbye and put her on a train, I checked my phone and she had blocked/deleted me on everything. I still have no f*****g clue what was going thru her head that whole time. There's much easier ways to get free pizza.

I matched with a goth girl who seemed really down to earth. Profile seemed normal and everything so I swiped and we matched.

Everything went well and we decided to meet at the park and walk our dogs. Her dog went to s**t so I handed her one of my baggies to pick it up.

She bare handed her dogs s**t and carried it about 20 feet to the trash can and wiped her hands on the back of her jeans.

I made sure not to let her touch me for the rest of the time.

Edit: I didn't expect this to get so big so I'll explain a few things people mentioned in comments.

1- Why didn't I end the date there? Well, we were kinda deep into the trail and I wasn't going to just ditch her. I'm not that kinda person and that would be rude.

2- At least she picked it up/ worried about plastic bags. Yes, that's very true. I wasn't upset with her for picking up after her dog, I was just grossed out. My bags are the biodegradable ones that dissolve when soaked, so even if she was worried about plastics she could've said something, lol.

3- Crazy goth girls. I have only met like... 2-3 goth girls and they've all been cool. She was also very kind and genuine and we shared a lot of interests, but between the poop thing and a few other things I don't think we would've worked out long term. Just a bit of differences that would've clashed and so it wasn't worth wasting either of our time.

I had a great first date with a girl from Tinder. She was super happy to set up a second date for later that week, and was sending me memes and chatting until the night before. The day of, she decides to stand me up in below-freezing weather without warning. I was texting her asking where she was, and I could see her come online just to ignore me.

Besides that, probably the multiple matches who would agree to a date, cancel the day before, pretend to be interested in rescheduling the date, and then drag out the process for weeks until I gave up and unmatched. Interested people will make time for you. 99.9% of the time, no one is "busy" for weeks on end.

This happened to a friend of mine. Matched with a girl and not too long after they agreed to meet up and have coffee.

Meets her at this Cafe, and she pulls out a tablet pretty much right after they sit down and order. She starts a presentation about some dodgy pyramid scheme.

My poor mate was too polite to say anything. He sat through the whole thing, politely declined and even paid for the bill. Never heard from her again.

My husband refusing to stop using them.

I'm single now!

I matched with my oldest cousin's daughter that I hadn't seen for about 20 years. Didn't recognize her until we started talking, then we both had the same "God this is awkward " moment when we realized the fact.

profJesusfish: I've always been paranoid about this. My mom comes from a family of 11 kids, and they're not super close, so I have like 30 cousins I don't know well and may not have seen in 10 years that live in the area. I really don't want to be the guy who tried to hook up with his cousin on a dating site.

Oh man. I have a few. I drove two hours to a date to get stood up by a salmon fisherman. A firefighter with a big Darth Vader tattoo, who was the spitting image of Jeffrey Dahmer, told me he couldn't get off in the bedroom unless I let him drag me around the house by my hair. A heavily-bearded Jewish surfer met me for coffee and called me fat. (I am not). A redhaired Russian man who continually referenced "the Ukrainian uprising" in disgust and carried a vintage six shooter as his EDC nearly set his bedroom on fire with a candle while we watched Airplane and shotgunned vodka.  An alcoholic with a big hole right in the middle of his kitchen floor told me my Spanish was terrible. Granted, my Spanish sucks. I was stood up by a shredded engineer, and had a short romp with a pile driver who insisted his cows were too smart to eat the poisonous plants that grew all over their field. There was a bodybuilder who told me that guns couldn't stop him from doing anything he wanted, that he was simply too strong to be affected by bullets. Then? Icing on the cake: I got ghosted by a train conductor with a nose ring whom I had dated for two entire months. That joke writes itself somehow. That was a new low for me. .

Got ghosted after I thought we had a great night.

She hit me up after a few weeks saying she had been “so busy.”

I guess her other option didn’t work out either lmao.

Edit** Just for context, when someone hits you up again weeks later after ghosting you saying that she’s “so sorry” and that she ”wants to meet up again” only to ghost you again literally after that text, it sends mixed signals. Sort yourself out, lady.

Meeting a girl and after I felt uncomfortable around her I went home. I dunno, it was an extremely uncomfortable experience with things she said to me and how she behaved. I was upfront with how I felt.

She then found me on a bunch of other social media platforms and kept messaging on all those.

Freaked me out.

I dated someone a long time ago. That guy didn't want to use a condom the first time we had sex, because he 'wants to fill me with his babies'. Yikes. So it stopped right there and I never saw him again.

And one who seemed different than the pictures and only talked about himself.

Other dates were thankfully fine or great.

I met this girl on bumble who seemed really sweet and we clicked super well at first. She told me that she was stuck in a lease with her ex (who she broke up with a couple months before) but she was trying to move back in with her mother. I wasn’t thrilled but I was thinking, whatever it’s not her fault.

A week later I had lost my virginity to her and a couple days after that I got a text from her telling me that she had a wonderful time with me but that she realized she was still in love with her ex. Apparently I made her feel like her old self, and that included being in love with a man who started dating her when she was 17 and he was 26.

Stupidly, I gave her a chance to make up her mind and she said she would pick me even though her brain told her not to. However, the final straw was that she insisted on staying friends with him and that I was ‘controlling’ for not wanting to date her if she would do that.