August 06, 2010
Buckhead Bambi

“I met the best looking bartender the other night,” Mom says on the other end of the phone.

“Well, that’s pretty common, Mom. Did the Cougar in you give him a big tip?”

“You could say that, yes.” There was a giddy little excitement to her tone.

“What did you do, Mom?” At this point I am concerned. My mother and I have...

July 28, 2010
JL

Sadly, I know several people who have encountered the Married Dater (MD): the men and women who pose as singles so they can date singles.

Sometimes, the MD’s spouse thinks he or she is in a happy, loving relationship. Wrong. Other times, the MD is separated, but still he or she checks “Single” on the online dating relationship status box...

July 13, 2010
Jaime Luckey

Deception Story 2…

J and I had been dating a little more than a month when he rummaged through one of notebooks and found a note I’d written about another guy. I wrote the note as a reminder for a short story. The guy was someone I had a relationship with almost a year before J and I began dating. When J told me what he did and saw, I...

July 09, 2010
Jaime Luckey

Deception Story 1 of 100

Okay, not 100. I don’t have that many stories about male dating deception, but I have a few doozies starting with Hugh, the one who was homeless.

Hugh and I met at an outdoor festival and connected on MySpace back when people still used MySpace for social networking. He sent me an email inviting me to...