We asked and you delivered: Here are Liverpool students’ worst dating horror stories

With the big day of love been and gone, there’s no better time than now to reflect on some of the highs and lows of the university dating scene. Whether you’ve been on a few weird Hinge or Tinder dates in your time, or had a very strange ex partner that just seemed to do the most peculiar things, almost every Liverpool student has an odd romantic story to share.

Singletons across the city will probably rejoice after reading some of these horror stories – or definitely cringe, because it totally could’ve been you at some point. Apparently 20 per cent of students in the UK are destined to meet the love of their life whilst at university, so your search for love isn’t always doomed. Unless you’re searching for your perfect partner on a Raz Monday, of course.

As traumatic as these stories sound, they’re the peak of entertainment for us onlookers. If you can stomach them, here are some of the very worst dating horror stories on behalf of Liverpool’s student dating scene. We asked, and you delivered.

‘So you’re my girlfriend, right?’

Relationships at university definitely feel like they move pretty quickly, but going on a couple of dates doesn’t automatically mean you’re married, unfortunately.

“I dated a girl off Tinder for a month and she love bombed me. Then she said “so you’re my girlfriend, right” but we’d never slept together, so this felt like a glorified friendship to me.

“Like girly no that is not how you talk about this”.

I would not have wanted to been a part of that conversation when you had to slowly let her down and crush her dreams of getting married and having three cats together. Oh, what could’ve been.

Majorly oversharing on the first date

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One student’s worst nightmare involved a lot of tears, and they weren’t hers.

“I’d not seen this guy before, so we went for a chill walk, but he ended up being an oversharer.

“Now don’t get me wrong, I like a guy that’s in touch with his emotions, there’s too much toxic masculinity these days, but when he’s bawling his eyes out over his grandma that died five years ago and then asking me if he made a fool of himself, I’m going to be honest.

“That’s not even the worst part. When he’d gone home, I got a text asking if he could take me to McDonald’s for our next date – what kind of second date is that? So, I blocked him.”

Smooching over a Big Mac and fries on a second date definitely screams red flag to me. Long gone are the days of a romantic home cooked meal, or going out to a fancy cocktail bar for some cheeky drinks – if mozzarella dippers are on the cards though,  a girl could think twice. Blocking them on socials may seem like an extreme response, but trauma dumping isn’t everyone’s idea of a very nice day out.

A walk, a roast dinner and saying no to a paternity test

First dates are often full of surprises, but a secret child? I’m not sure if that’s something to spring on your date the first time you meet them.

“I met up with a guy from Hinge, and I thought it was going really well until he goes “by the way, I have a child”. Then he said “I don’t really like to think about it, I think it’s about three, but I have never met it”.

We hope “it” is doing okay.

Uncontrollable anger issues

“We were going to go to the pub, but we were 17 at the time and they wouldn’t let us in, so we decided to share a bottle of wine from the offy and drink it in the park, how romantic”.

Nothing screams being born in the early 2000s more than drinking cheap wine in the local park.

“We went to get the bus back to his and the bus driver wouldn’t let us on with the bottle. Instead of putting the bottle in the bin (like the average person would) he smashed it on the pavement right next to the bus in a fit of rage.

“Honestly can’t believe the bus driver still let us on – continued to date him for two years, not sure why.”

Props to the bus driver for letting you get back safe and sound, even if you’d just wasted half a bottle of Echo Falls.

Awkward second date wardrobe mishap

“I went on two dates with a guy off Hinge last summer and the first was nice, but for the second the man rocks up in the most god awful outfit I have ever seen.

“He’s wearing a salmon pink t-shirt with some sort of stain down it, with white skinny jean shorts with rips in the thighs, maroon socks and battered grey trainers.

“It’s engraved into my memory at this point”.

Well if he was looking to make a memorable second impression, that’s definitely a way to go about it. Note to self, don’t pair salmon pink with ripped jean shorts on my next date.

‘Their final message was the fish’

Dealing with flatcest and piles of washing up can be bad enough as it is, but working out what to do with a dead fish left outside your flatmate’s door? I don’t know what I’d do either.

“Our flatmate’s ex gf left a dead fish on our doorstep” said one University of Liverpool student.

As if that statement wasn’t shocking enough, the context behind this slightly peculiar message is even worse than you could imagine, believe me.

“It was so weird, she got someone to ring him and say creepy things for maybe six months, and then their ‘final message’ was the fish.

“They live down South so literally no idea how they got the fish to Liverpool, but they must’ve sent it with someone at uni here”.

There’s levels to this game, but this is in a league of its own. I’ve got so many questions – why a fish? Where did they get said fish from? Who was willing enough to deliver a fish to someone’s flat? Were they bribed? I guess we’ll never know.

‘He took the Nintendo Switch from the living room’

“My boyfriend was away and his flatmate had her best mate over. The friend bought a guy back and he stole my boyfriend’s laptop, which was in his room”.

And the worst part?

“And then he took the Nintendo Switch from the living room too.

“When you went out, you didn’t have to go through the living room to leave the house, so he was obviously looking for something to steal”.

Imagine coming back from a long day of lectures to relax with a bit of Mario Kart and your housemate’s friend’s situationship has nicked the communal Nintendo Switch from the living room? What a menace.

It’s safe to say that if you don’t want to stink of dead fish this semester, it may be better to stay off the dating apps for a while. Unless you’re in a happy and healthy relationship (we’re jealous), keep an eye out for some of these with these crazy daters on the loose.