Date GalDating Disasters 101: The Frenchman
This is the start of a series of blogs about Dating Disasters. We’ve all had them and we all have a special story or two! If you do have one, please let me know and we’ll do a special blog – of course we can change names so no one has to suffer terrible embarassment.
This story is inspired by my friend Emily who just over the weekend went out on a date with a Frenchman. Yes the French are terribly attractive – I’m not sure if it’s their accent or just their romantic ways.
Emily met Mr French at a party on Sunday night – they hardly talked to each other but they did swap numbers at the end of the evening. Come Monday morning, he immediately text her and asked if she wanted to go to the beach (public holiday in her state). There was no way she was going to get into a bikini on the first date – the horror! So she suggested they meet for dinner but unfortunately being a public holiday, all the restaurants were shut.
He suggested that he cook for her – terribly romantic and she obliged. Unfortunately, dinner didn’t go down as expected. He made he read him the recipe (which was in French) out loud to him and she had no idea how to pronounce the words. He then tried to re enact a scene from a Penelope Cruz movie by cutting a chilli in half and rubbing it on her lips. She’s allergic to chilli for one but it burnt her lips and she was in terrible agony. The date continued though in good fun and she embraced his bad cooking and his poor English.
Things started to get a little heated after dinner and he went in for the good ole French kiss! But it wasn’t as passionate and romantic as she expected. He practically mauled her like a dog and unfortunately chipped her front tooth. Of course, Mr. French was terribly embarrassed and my friend, in pain but she was decent enough to thank him for the evening and call it a night!
Did she ditch him right then and there? No way! Okay… so she probably doesn’t want to kiss him again but she does want to remain friends. He however has a different idea.
All day yesterday she received very racy text messages – basically telling her what he would like to do to her (sorry, too explicit to publish). She decided to ignore the text messages but the continue to come. Only this morning, he sent over to her office some papers asking her to read through his work for university (he is a lecturer) and make recommendations.
Enough was enough – she clearly wants out and he wants marriage.
What makes it worse is that he has an ex wife, his fiancée only moved out two weeks ago when they broke up and he was quite willing to tell Emily all this on the first date!
So what has gone wrong here?
1) Talking about his exes on the first date!
2) Having a fiancé only two weeks ago – is Emily the rebound girl?
3) Sending explicit messages the day after when he doesn’t even know Emily
4) And assuming that she was marriage material after the first date!
For Emily, she is gong to be honest and upfront and let him know that it is not working for her! And for Mr. French – maybe a lesion or two in dating wouldn’t go a stray?
What do you think? What should have Emily done? Stayed or go? And can you out do this dating disaster?
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Who knows - some gals may like the direct rushed approach.
But then again, women do whinge when guys play it cool and then when they're full on, we still whinge!
Can't win hey!
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