Worst Online Date - Bad Date Stories

My worst online dating experience was with a “virtuous” hypocrite.

I went out with this guy Shane (Shane, I hope you’re reading this!) We met online and started going out after only a week of chatting. He was a nice Catholic boy from a good Italian family… well-mannered, charming, good-looking. I was raised atheist by a Jewish mom and a Presbyterian dad. It never posed a problem, and we got along really well. We even got to the point where I took him home to meet my parents and they really liked him (of course they did, he was charming!) and obviously I liked him too. Then I brought up the dreaded question: So when am I going to meet your parents?

He might as well have punched me in the stomach: “Uhh… are you kidding me? My parents would kill me if they found out I was going out with someone who isn’t Catholic.”

WHAT?!?!? But we’ve been going out for awhile—you’re telling me your parents don’t even know you’ve got a girlfriend? He said no. I said what were you planning on telling them when things got even more serious? And can you imagine that he said: “What are you talking about? We’re just having a good time, here.”

I don’t get guys who are willing to have “flings” with girls who aren’t Catholic, but then can’t imagine the prospect of marrying anyone who isn’t Catholic. What made me good enough to sleep with but not good enough to take home to his parents? What kind of devout Catholic is he that he’s even having sex before marriage? Why do some of these assholes think they can follow whatever parts of their religion fits their lifestyle choices, but then choose to ignore the other parts that don’t quite fall into place with what they “feel like doing.” It’s bullshit. Shane was a total dillhole. I almost went to pay a “surprise visit” to his parents and show them what kind of sweet Catholic angel their little boy really was. But I didn’t want to go as low as he was, cause at least I can live with the fact that I’m not a total jerk.