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My ex set himself up a lot of red flags but me being naive didn’t see it until years later. My brother in law had to get emergency surgery at the VA and my sister had been at the hospital all day, so I wanted to go check on her and bring her food aroundContinue reading “Safe”

A guy I actually did end up dating for awhile was sweet, had a great sense of humor, was exactly my height so walking was really nice, an amazing kisser, we had tons of similar interests, got along with each others’ friends, but he ended up dumping me because he likes skinny girls and evenContinue reading “Measurements”

“I only use blacklight in my room.” He slept with it on all night. -A.R.

My high school boyfriend rolled his own cigarettes and really liked Gravity’s Rainbow. -K.K.

My friend’s boyfriend went out for a run while she was still sleeping and came back with one muffin, for himself, because he “didn’t know what kind of muffin” she would want. A “one muffin man” is now shorthand among our friends for a certain type of selfish. -M.G.

I dated a guy for 5 months who hated Courtney Love. He would call her a bitch every now and then and mention how she orchestrated the death of Kurt Cobain. I figured of all the conspiracy theory eccentricities out there this was minimal. I was wrong. One day I was hanging at his placeContinue reading “Alice Cooper”

I almost dated a guy once who I met while working at a grocery store. He would come in on my shift to talk to me. One day he asked me what size shoe I wore and when my birthday was, and also, oddly, my email address. I quit my job soon afterwards, didn’t seeContinue reading “Grocery stores”

 I started dating a friend after he had a tumultuous breakup with his pregnant wife. (They only married for insurance.) Naturally, he claimed she was “crazy”, but he forgot to mention his anger management issues as one of the sources of the unrest. I provided the emotional labor he needed to get through this majorContinue reading “Oh baby”

After I started dating this girl, I creeped on her blog and discovered she drew Pokémon hentai. -C.J.

A guy was working next to me in the library at the next computer, and he passed me a very flattering note. He picked me up to go to dinner the next night, then stopped at his off-campus apartment to “show you the place.” I was offered alcohol (I was barely 19 and said no),Continue reading “Flattering”