Making a coffee on my lunch break at work, I received a text message from my recent date – let’s call him John. ‘I spent too much time and money on you,’ it read. ‘I want £300 back.
’ I couldn’t believe it. We’d been on three dates together, but the last time I saw him – less than a week earlier – I had to run away from his house in fear of my life. Now he was demanding money from me.
It was the 2010s and I had just ended a long-term relationship, so I joined a dating app to try to find a nice man. Then I came across John’s profile. It looked genuine and I was immediately attracted to a handsome businessman with his own house, two little dogs and fast car, even if he was almost a decade older than me.
After only two days of texting about our pets, work, our shared love for the outdoors and how we were tired of online dating , I got the impression that he was a gentleman and wanted more than just a fling. So I decided to go on a date with him. Sign up to The Hook-Up, Metro's sex and dating newsletter Love reading juicy stories like this? Need some tips for how to spice things up in the bedroom? Sign up to The Hook-Up and we'll slide into your inbox every week with all the latest sex and dating stories from Metro.
We can't wait for you to join us! We went to a posh restaurant in town that he chose. John ordered a steak and I had salad and chips because I’m vegetarian. He gave me compliments and made me laugh.
It turned out he liked theatre and musicals a.