Craig

Craig thought he was really good in bed. Craig was actually really bad in bed. He asked me what I was up to one weekend afternoon, and as my son was at his dad’s I was just chilling watching Netflix. He only lived three miles away so said he’d come over, and said ‘that’s fine …

Danny

I was staying in a surf village in Devon for a week to write my book and matched with Danny. He was cute and handsome and into surfing and snowboarding, same as me. His messages were a maximum of four words in length as we tried to sort a day to meet, which we did, …

Alan

My friend suggested I stop going for the obscenely fit guys, but instead look for a country lad, who I may not fancy as much as the others at first glance, but with whom I may share a few more interests. So, I matched with Alan, who lived about 30 miles away and worked for …

Lee

The chat with Lee flowed from the off. We had great conversations over the dating app, had lots of interests in common and chatted endlessly about the countryside and the outdoors. He was very attentive, exceptionally good looking and great at chatting about mundane problems/relationship history, even a little about my children (as much as …

Bill

Call it old fashioned, or just basic manners, but most of us women want to be wooed. My friend says sometimes when she tells a match this, he doesn’t know what this means, so she explains, it simply means it would be lovely if a date demonstrates, through practical gestures, that you like us and …

Dave & David

I agreed to meet Dave at the pub one early evening for a drink. He forewarned me that he’d have been out on a dog walk a couple of hours earlier, but I didn’t expect him to be still dressed in his smelly dirty doggy gear when we met. He was sat outside at a …

Ads

Ads was 28, I was 41. I lived near Exeter, about 2.5 hours from him in Basingstoke where he lived. We matched because he was on a football tour with his team down my way. And wow. He was so cute and handsome. Fair haired, about 5’9” and toned. He was a cheeky chappy and …

Jason

Jason was a 35-year-old marine and we met on Tinder. We chatted for a day and I invited him to meet me at a pub near camp but he kept making excuses. I finally convinced him to see me. He snuck off camp while on duty and we met up at about 11:30pm on a …

Luc

Let Luc be a warning to you ladies who are full of hope and anticipation when embarking on your online dating journey! Now, four years in, and a seasoned online dater, I would have smelt a rat far quicker than I did, just a few months in, and unmatched quicker than I normally swipe left… …

Tony

I met Tony on Tinder, he was a Head of PE, aged 41, living in Plymouth. Great hair! We had really good chat from the get-go, even though it escalated quickly onto sex chat, but he was cool when I said I wasn’t interested in one nighters. We didn’t message all the time, but he …