Dating horror stories I had been dating a guy for around three months. We had snuck into my room and were hooking up and as we switched positions, he winced really hard. I asked him what was wrong. His thumb was absolutely swollen and turning blue. Turns out he sprained it because he sat on it, and I had to take him to the ER. —Jules Roscoe, UTA Staff Editor
In my junior year of high school, my then-boyfriend’s super conservative Mormon parents found our sexts on his phone. They drove across town to my house at 8 p.m. to talk to my family about “the nature of our relationship,” a conversation that included such gems as “don’t you want to wear white on your wedding day?” And “don’t you want to tell your husband that you stayed pure for him?” Moral of the story: Always use I matched with a guy on Bumble at the beginning of fall Snapchat. 2021. He seemed alright, but we didn’t have a particularly strong —Caitlin Hsu, UTA Publishing Editor connection, so we stopped talking after a while. Fast forward a couple months, and one of my WSN coworkers ends up cat-sitting It’s high school, junior year. This was the first somewhat for him. These two things happened completely independently. legit relationship I had been in, and this guy and I were dating —Caitlin Hsu, UTA Publishing Editor for around four months at this point. We went to a boarding school, so it was hard to find places to hang out as a couple. But I matched with a guy on Tinder just a day after downloading my dorm room had this music practice room in the basement it for the first time. We started talking a bit and it was going well, that was soundproof, so you can imagine what went on in there. until he informed me he had swiped right because he thought my One time, we decided to go in and fool around. Just as we were friend in one of my pictures was hot. Needless to say, I unmatched getting ready, the door swings open, and it’s another girl and with him right after that. her hookup, who’s maybe four years older than her. We just —Sydney Barragan, UTA Publishing Editor stared at each other for 20 seconds. Then they laughed at us and left. She apparently snitched on me, too — I had to talk to In freshman year, my date and I had to be walked home the adviser of student affairs about it. from a Welcome Week event after he fainted in line for the student —Jules Roscoe, UTA Staff Editor comedy show because he got too high and hadn’t eaten or drank While I was in high school there was an album release any water all day. He was about seven inches taller than I was and party for a band I was really into. I was invited, so I brought I had to catch him. Everyone watched me struggle trying to carry along the girl I was kind of seeing at the time and a few friends. this man, and the Welcome Week leaders said they had to walk us We arrive, the record starts and it’s really good. My friends and back to Founders “for safety.” It was my first date ever. I were really into the music, standing close to a speaker and —Aleksandra Goldberg, UTA Voices Editor quietly enjoying the scene. The girl who I came with — we’ll call her Iman — was not so into it. In her boredom, Iman noticed some One time there was a random pair of women’s underwear friends she had made at another band’s show, a band I am not in my boyfriend’s family home, and I got a text from his mom asking really into. Suddenly, the record was overtaken by noise, and if it was mine. It wasn’t mine and we all spent a solid hour debating the rest of the room, and I turned to find screaming coming from whether this meant his dad was cheating. It turned out to belong to Iman and her friends. It turned out the friends were groupies for an extended family member that had stayed there a few months this other band and were sharing stories of romantic escapades. before, and the family dog had stolen it and kept it. The underwear No one else was amused, and it was a tense and quiet drive was really ugly, so I’m offended they even thought it was mine. home afterwards. —Staff Member —Julian Hammond Santander, UTA Exposures Editor
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