Did you ever date someone that you were embarassed to be dating or at least thought “what am I doing here?”
I don’t think I ever dated someone I was embarrassed about, but I definitely dated someone in college that was nowhere near hot enough for the amount of crazy she came with. I originally just though she was a little wild but it quickly became apparent that she was just full-blown bag of cats crazy.
Yes embarassed wasn’t the right word. Not sure what it should be.
My ex-wife.
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When I was 22 or so, my brother and I had a party at our place one night. I have never drank much, but I drank that night. I took a fancy to a girl and asked her to spend the night. She said that she had to run home but would come back. By the time that she got back, I had sobered up some.
We got in bed, but I wasn’t interested and I decided to just go to sleep. Then I figured that everyone that had been there would think that I had slept with her anyway, so I might as well. It wasn’t my proudest moment.
Ditto! My ex wife!
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Oh yessir.
More than I care to admit. I was a slow learner in my younger years.
A non-exhaustive list includes:
The one who got mad I had the TV on too loud one night after she was trying to go to bed, so retaliated with earsplitting radio in the bedroom, and when I (and eventually the people in the apartment next door) complained, she grabbed her softball bat and started smashing it into the floor, screaming “Can you hear me now?!?!” because that Verizon cell phone ad was on the TV at the time.
The super responsible, pulled together one who took me to a very nice family barbeque after 3 - 4 months of dating, where I got pulled aside by her also-pulled-together aunt who’d had a couple of glasses by the time she whispered with chardonnay breath, “'[girlfriend] tells me you guys are still using condoms…good idea, I love her but she’s lied about birth control before….”
The one who threw a drink in my face at a fancy dress party in front of a bunch of people, and when I threw up my hands and said “Why?!?”, she said “No reason. I’ve just always wanted to do that and I thought you could handle it.”
Alcohol was a contributing factor in all of those situations. In vino veritas, or something like that.
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You know how when you are in a crowded movie theater and there is that one audience member with the most ridiculous laugh? In high school I dated a lovely girl who did this. She could giggle/laugh/guffaw at any possible moment, whether it was an actual scene or not. It didn’t really affect our dating history and I don’t recall not taking her to a movie based on this, but yeah it was quite embarrassing. We do remain on friendly terms to this day…thinking I should ask her if this is still a thing she does as adult.
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Oh man, do I have some stories…
One that jump to mind: I met a girl at a party through an ex-girlfriend. She was beyond gorgeous. She reminded me of Jennifer Connelly in the 90s. In addition to her beauty, she was very smart, in a pre-med program, came from a wealthy family, and just seemed very put together. What she saw in me, I still have no idea 
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Anyways we went on a few dates and it started to dawn on me she was a relentless nervous talker. She could not bear to sit in silence for more than 5 seconds. After a few dates she invited me for a long weekend at her family’s beach cabin, 3 hours away. She was quite suggestive about how we would be spending most of our time that weekend. I was torn. On one hand, I was starting to really tire of the constant talking. On the other hand, Jennifer Connelly circa mid 90s.
Against my better judgement, I agreed to go. By the end of the first hour I just decided I wasn’t going to speak for the rest of the trip and see if she would ever stop, or ask me a question or something. It never happened. At several points I had one of those “what the hell am I doing here” moments.
I was exhausted and annoyed by the time we arrived. Before we could get settled, I told her I was starting to feel sick and we should just turn back. She was a bit caught off guard but agreed. Thankfully, she fell asleep for most of the drive home. I dropped her off and never called her again.
We are still Facebook friends. She eventually became a surgeon in Toronto and married another doctor there and they have a few kids. How he deals with it, I have no idea.
This had me laughing out loud.
I had a scare like this before. Some girl claimed she was late after I broke up with her. She claimed she was inconsistent with her birth control. I never found out one way or another if she was telling the truth. After various threats to ruin my life she went dark for a couple of weeks then contacted me to say she had miscarried.
I think she was telling the truth because a few years later I heard she had a baby with some other guy she had just met. With her, I learned that some psychopaths hide behind blond hair and cute blue eyes and don’t necessarily look or act like monsters.
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Has @slowguy taught you nothing over the years? 
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One could say I’m not the sharpest bulb in the bulb drawer.
Who keeps bulbs in a drawer?
Blonde, blue-eyed psychopaths. Obviously.
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