Ahh, the trials and tribulations of dating life.
On the one hand, it could be exciting and very promising. On the other hand, it could be a total disaster.
You may already think a prospective romantic encounter is a one-and-done scenario, but the other person might not share the same view.
Curious to hear dating horror stories, Redditor Saul_goodmannnnn asked:
"People who had a 'one-night stand' that turned into an actual nightmare—what happened?"
False Alarm
"She knew she was already pregnant and tried to pin it on me a week later."
– abcdefgeewiz
"Same thing happened to me but she had forgotten we didn’t actually have sex. I was just like oh, cool, good for you?"
– TheDocWhovian
"I had one of these situations!! We even told my parents and I moved in to her apartment because 'it's the right thing to do'. I was 21 at the time and I wanted to be responsible so started reading the book 'What to expect when you're expecting' and realized things were escalating faster than they should have and the timeline wasn't lining up."
"Confronted her, big fight, she admits she thinks it isn't mine. I'm 42 now and haven't seen her since."
– tonguejack-a-sh*tbox
Second Time's Not A Charm
"Two night stand."
"First night went well. She was cool."
"Months later she calls me out of nowhere at midnight. But she can’t host and she’s 45 min away. She says she will stay the night, so why not?"
"As we are almost back to my house (10 min), something happens. I don’t know what. She had to have take something before I picked her up. Out of nowhere she is getting all paranoid about where we are going. She knows who I am, but is having a crisis over the fact she doesn’t know me that well (the first time was at her place)."
"It escalates 0-10 in less than a mile and next thing she is panicking and telling me to let her out of the car. She was almost screaming. I found a gas station and pulled over. She jumps out and starts pacing frantically while calling someone."
"I start telling her to calm down and that backfires as she is screaming at me again ('how can I calm down?! Why did I do this, I don’t know where I am! Leave me alone!'). People are starting to look at us and she is shouting at me to go."
"I could hear her talking to a friend to pick her up. The area was safe so I decided alright, I’ll leave then. I didn’t want to but me staying was causing her more anxiety. I drove down the block but pulled into a lot so I could watch and make sure she was okay."
"Well, someone had called the cops. So about 10 min later, as she is sitting on her phone, they pull in. At first the cop is just talking to her, seemingly asking if everything is alright. Even from afar, I could see her begin getting amped up again. Swing her arms around and shouting."
"She left in handcuffs. I still don’t know what happened. But it had to be drugs."
– Chicagosox133
Incident At The Cabin
"Technically not a one night stand because no sex happened but I think it still counts. When I was 21 I worked in a bar and met a really cute girl who asked me to go home with her after my shift. I didn’t own a car at the time and she did so she hung out for a bit and drove me out to her place that was a good 20 miles outside of town but this lovely cabin on the lake."
"As soon as we walk in she grabs some shot glasses and pours out 4 shots of gin. I tell her I’m not really a gin fan and would rather drink anything else. She said 'your loss' and downs all 4 of them. She was about 110 lbs at best and that gin hit her HARD. She became almost instantly hammered and was slurring and stumbling around trying super hard to get me to f'k around which I was super not into in this situation."
"I eventually get her to lay down in bed and try to sleep it off. I laid awake next to her for a few hours and eventually dozed off for some very restless sleep. That is, until I wake up and realize she has pissed the bed."
"I can’t leave because she drove so I get outta bed and just go sit in the kitchen and wait for her to wake up. Her mom and dad wake up before her and find a very rattled young man sitting alone in their kitchen. I had no idea she lived with her parents and it freaked me the hell out. To their credit, they tried to be as cool about it as possible and her mom made me some coffee."
"When girl finally gets up, she walks into the kitchen where me and her parents are sitting and says 'did you piss the bed?' I honestly don’t even remember what I said other than a lot of stammering and a few mumbled 'nos' but the panic had washed over me pretty fierce by then."
"The dad looked over at me and just said 'you want a ride home?' To which I quickly said yes and we shuffled out the door and I basically ran to his truck. About 15 miles into the drive he said 'I know ya didn’t do it cuz your pants are dry.' I said I swear I didn’t and I just want to go home. We drove in silence the rest of the way."
"A few days later a girl I bartended with said 'I hear you met my sister the other day.' She didn’t find any humor in this story and surprisingly her sister was still claiming I was the bed wetter. I had to find a new job."
– RattleBoyal
Never Call Her 'Crazy'
"Met some girl at a friend’s, began texting after that for a while. On a business trip a while later we hook up, have a coffee the next day and talk a little, then I go back home. Home is 3hrs away by bullet train. The number of texts from her increase rapidly over the next few days. Tells me she wants to come over but I do not want that and tell her I am busy."
"Also I never told her where I live or work so that is easy. Next, I get a text from a female acquaintance, that someone on Instagram is writing her crazy messages. Apparently there was some picture of me on her reel from some random event I was at. It’s the girl I hooked up with. No idea how she found that."
"I tell her to ignore it. I then tell the girl she should stop bothering other people and man, did she get angry at that. I ignore it. I did have an Instagram account but it was private and I always took care to not leave pictures of me floating around on the net."
"Next day, the acquaintance calls me that the girl called her at her work. And that her boss told her that they were receiving calls complaining about the quality of her work. I make the mistake of writing that girl that what she is doing is pretty crazy and that she had to shut it down. She did not like being called crazy. My acquaintance sorts it out with her company, I apologize and return to putting the girl on ignore."
"A few days later I get a call from an assistant at work, that someone is trying to reach me. Apparently the girl found out where I work from the very vague info I gave when we were having coffee weeks ago. I guess she brute forced it and called companies that were in the same business and from the same country. I tell HR to not forward any calls anymore from random callers."
"Next, my siblings get messages over Facebook. At least those that ‘befriended’ me there. They block her, too."
"Then, a few days later, I see her standing at the metro exit closest to my home. I ask her what she is doing here and she tells me she was just walking around. For the following few days I take very long non-direct routes to and from home. She probably followed me from work, tailing me all the way riding the metro."
"That’s also when I go to the police. I was kind of always looking over my shoulder at that point, waiting for her to run at me with a knife or something. They call her and tell her that stalking is an offense. A week later I get an angry call from her sister, that the girl was in the hospital after she trying to harm herself. Now I am the baddie. Back to ignore."
"I still live in the same huge city, but have moved since, have a new phone number, no Facebook or Instagram. I still have all the crazy messages on a USB stick somewhere. I saved them back then in case something happened to me."
– kuridono
Extended Stay
"So, there was this bar literally right next to my apartment at the time, right? I go in one night, have a few drinks, end up back at my place with this woman. We do our thing a few times, and when we wake up in the morning, I assume that was that. Wrong. She sticks around the whole day, and I'm not rude or anything, so I just roll with it."
"She stays again, we do our thing, no biggie. Day three me and my roommate are fairly confused. So I go about it delicately. 'Hey, shouldn't you let someone know where you are or something...? Like, wouldn't this worry anyone...?' She responds with 'Oh, I did. We're all good.' O...Kay. whatevs."
"Five nights. Five nights I serve as a bed and bangfast to this total stranger. Then she took me out to a really nice brunch at this upper-scale restaurant the next afternoon when we woke up and left me there. No ride back to the apt or anything. Not so much a nightmare, but...Baffling to say the least."
– A02R
When He Doesn't Take 'No' For An Answer
"Guy picked me up for dinner, he proceeded to not order anything (said he wasn’t hungry) but told me to get whatever I wanted. I ordered an appetizer and as we talked he started making advances. I thought he was super hot, so when he suggested we go to his place, I was like 'Yeah, let’s go.' ”
"Go to his place, have extremely mediocre sex, I go home. Thought he was a bit weird and wasn’t interested. He messaged me the next day asking if we could get together again. I declined, told him I had a good time but didn’t really feel like there was a good connection and good luck. He kept texting, insisting that I should go out with him again. Finally I blocked his number."
"A few weeks later I come home to a note on my front door in my controlled-access apartment building from HIM. He had picked me up from the front door of the building previously, and I had never told him my apartment number."
"The note said he expected me to reimburse him for the appetizer I had ordered (a whopping $4.99). I rolled my eyes, thought 'what a f'king creep', and threw the note away."
"About a week later comes an angry pounding on my front door. I peek through the peephole and see it’s him, pounding on the door for all he can. I didn’t open the door, but I called security and had him removed from the premises. I was a bit shaken up by it, but I got over it."
"The next day I go out to my car for work, and that psycho had keyed my car front, sides, and back repeatedly ($1,400 to get it repainted). I have no idea how he even knew which car was mine. He even stole my windshield wipers for some reason."
"I called the police, they called him and told him to back off; he tried to tell them he 'paid me for sex' (meaning the appetizer) and that I owed him $4.99."
"Took out a restraining order against him and never heard from his psycho-ass again."
– CourtClarkMusic
The unsettling examples above serve as a reminder that you really truly never know what people are capable of outside of getting in on under the sheets.
What nightmarish dating encounters have you had that still unnerve you to this day?
@FrankC164/X
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