How often have you said YES to a date (therapy, boyfriend, dating)

[jaminhealth]

and knew all along you should have said NO. And could not wait for the
date to end. In my dating years I did this too often. Glad those times
are behind me.

[Sand&Salt]

I left in the middle of one a couple times. Sometimes you don't know until you are well into it....

[The Dissenter]

Almost every date I've ever been on. Once I know I should not be here, I make up an excuse to bounce and off I am.

[Sonic_Spork]

I was not in the dating scene very long before I had the makings of some relationships (between my marriage breaking up, and my present day with a serious boyfriend)... I had two people I went on dates with, where I knew I did not want to continue with them after that. The first was not a bad date, we had fantastic conversation and could have gone on to be friends, but I didn't want to be the gal who "friend zoned" a suitor, so I just told him I did not really feel we were compatible for a relationship and we never talked after that. Long story short, his teeth were a horror show and he had young daughters...and both factors broke the deal for me. But I liked him, enjoyed talking to him, we had many interests in common.

Second one was horrible. The most awkward burger of my life. We'd talked online a lot, so I knew waaaayyy too much about some of his unusual fantasies and kinks. That by itself was not an issue. We met, and he was nervous to the point of being twitchy. Like his eyes kept doing this weird squinty twitchy thing. And his excessive nervousness made me nervous too. And we went to a restaurant where he knew the staff, he was a regular, and the guy who waited on us kept giving me this smarmy smile like his buddy had already told him private things about me or something, or like he was imagining the two of us naked...it was really, really, really squicky. I stuck out the meal, during which the guy started getting really excited telling me about his comic book collection (I'm a nerd...but not for superhero comics...yet even though I expressed a lack of interest/familiarity with the subject, the guy went on and on and on)... And afterwards I did give him a hug, but then I was suddenly "too busy" to continue talking to him. I kinda ghosted him. Oh well. He was too young for me anyways.

I had another awkward date that wasn't really the guy's fault and I did wind up in a year long relationship with him anyways. The awkwardness was because we were both interested in the local kink scene and they were having a "munch" (community intro to newbies, held at a typical restaurant) and it happened to be facilitated by one of the strangest people I've ever met, and took place at a kitchy family restaurant called Fargo's which is like...a mix of old timey western shtick with something like Chuck E Cheese...sub-par Italian food, and staff dressed in costume. The whole thing was so bizarre and surreal... I faked a "family emergency text message" and wink-wink-nudge-nudged my date, and we escaped to go hang out by my car and talk instead. Something about being in that restaurant listening to an elderly Leather-transwoman with a weird monotone voice talk about the CBT that is NOT "cognitive behavior therapy" while random kids ran past behind our group and goofy organ music played in the background...

[John13]

I've never been asked...