Wow, you sure are a picky lady! Imagine never having to leave the house again?

I think I would have stopped and turned slowly to him and said this,

Me: “Carl, baby, there’s one thing I haven’t been totally honest about…”

Carl: “Yes?”

Me: “I’m a crack addict. Would you still love me and buy me crack everyday? My habit is only about $100 a day. Well, okay, sometimes it’s $200 and on weekends I’ll like blow $2500 but only every OTHER weekend.

So, baby, is that okay with you?”

He mutated from charming to psychopath in two weeks flat. He began to stalk me within an inch of my life, send me “presents”, call me at 7:00 am and then continue calling me all day and all night way into the wee hours of the morning, email me continuously “just to see how your day is going”. I couldn’t get rid of the guy!

I dissed him and would take extremes to avoid him - he retaliated by continuing the same behavior, escalating the intensity of the phone calls, and trying to make me jealous with tales of a waitress he’d met someplace. Finally it escalated until he phoned me right after I received some really bad business news and found out the same day that a favorite relative had died. He gave me no space to deal with this stuff and instead spent 15 minutes raving like a lunatic about the waitress he was dating, how much sex they were having, and how similar to, yet much better she was than, me.

I told him, “You know, you obviously have a crush on me; I’m not interested; go away, you sociopath”, and hung up on him.

The next day, he emailed and first told me I was imagining his interest in me. Then he proceeded to insult me, and mentioned an earlier statement I’d made where I said I was dating another guy. “Good for you,” Mr. Uninterested groused. Then he gave my personal email address to his stalker ex-girlfriend, and she began sending me loony misspelled messages warning me to “stay away from Bill he toy with woman and will not marry - I am strong Jewish woman beliv in G-d and have many frends”.

She also sent me mildly ominous messages claiming to have Googled me and knowing a bit too much about the TV show I was producing. “Nice website you have… (name of the show),” she wrote darkly. I called the police on both of them, but they’re both several suits short of a full deck, so I await further stalkings.

I love how men say only women are emotional, irrational and crazy, and how stories like these get swept under the collective male media rug.

Unfortunately, he still tries to contact me on IM if I turn off the “only let people on my buddy list see I’m online” feature. 4 years later!! He does it to her too. But she’s overseas, which is a start.

Come to think of it, though, I don’t think he had a Jewish psycho ex-gf (nor is my roomie a psycho) so it’s probably another similar one.

Richard: I love your answer!!!

I jokingly put up an ad on craigslist and received well over 200 responses. I only responded to guys who included pictures, so I figured that that, in combination with meeting them at a public place would work in my favor.

No.

The first guy was cheap and took me to IHOP for dinner. He showed up late, and when he dropped me off, he texted me not even five minutes later. The next day he asked my underwear size, claiming that his aunt had a discount at Victoria’s Secret. When I told him I didn’t want anything to do with him, he flipped out, and several moments after that IM’ed me saying, “Can I at least go down on u or sumthing? Or can we have sex?”

The second guy was great at making out, but his clothes didn’t fit him, and he had this weird southern draw. I found out a week later that he thought we were dating, and when he found out we weren’t a couple, he freaked out and sent me several weird and borderline psychotic e-mails.

Ok, so guy number three went well, but guy number four was even better. He showed up with a flower and looked just like he did in the photo. We’re still dating ten months later. Go figure.

I did!

I met this guy, talked online one night, for hours on the phone the next few nights, then went on a date, he took me to a really nice restaurant, then back to his place.

We moved way to fast (nothing horrible, but rushed into things relationship wise)
anyways…
the night after our date he came to my place for dinner, and the conversation that followed revealed him to be very needy and then also thinking there was something about me that he needed to fix.

I’m fine… o_o

anyways…i think i’ve had my share of internet dating.

great story though! I’m not sure how I would have reacted in your situation >_

In fact, there is a lot to learn from this guy. There are way too many beta males out there who can’t even assert themselves with a woman. That doesn’t mean forcing them to do anything physical obviously. But I give props to this guy who has the balls to be the man and not “chump out” like most guys do — constantly asking for permission from women — “is this ok?” - “what would you like?” - “where do you want to go?” - “i’ll do whatever you want me to do”. Ugh.

And here’s a guy who is honest about his feelings, isn’t afraid to share that he likes someone, when a lot of guys have trouble sharing their feelings.

Look, women complain about a billion things when it comes to men and I’m sure women exaggerate about their bad encounters as much as men exaggerate about the size of their member. So in the end, I give props to the man.

Peace