Meet Mr. I'm in Love with You, Online Dating and the Single Mom-Part 2

After the last date, I was kind of skeptical, of meeting anyone else on the internet. I told myself that the next time would be different. I was right it was.

Meet Mr. "I'm in Love with you", and we will call him "Danny". He had a sweet face, at least I thought so by the way he looked in his picture. He sounded perfect. Danny explained to me that he worked for a major money transport security service. I thought "Wow" a man in uniform. How hot and sexy, plus he had those handcuffs, even better, I thought.

Danny had an accent, he was from the South, and I thought it was sexy. We communicated over the phone for over a two week period before we met. He started using text messages and calling me from work. It seems so romantic to me. He then called me about two days before we met and said he needed to talk to me. He had this serious tone about him. So I asked him. "What's up? " Danny explained to me that over the two week period since we had started talking that he had developed feelings for me. "I'm in love with you", Danny said. I had red flags going up everywhere. I of course ignored them. Bad move let me tell you.

We met on Friday night. When he picked me up he had music blaring from inside his car. I couldn't hear myself think. I looked over at him and he was hiding his face. He wouldn't look directly at me. I said, "Hello" to him and he flung his c.d. case at me and told me to pick something out to listen to. The whole way to dinner he drove about 25 miles an hour. Cars we're beeping at us, he flung his arm out the window as if to motion for them to go around us. Ladies, let me stop this story for a minute. When you have Red Flag warnings going on in your head, trust your instinct. We Woman are notorious for not listening to our gut instincts and blowing it off, as though it doesn't matter.

He had no idea where to take me out, (oh no, not another one) I thought. I mentioned a place close to home, to make an early escape. I know exactly where this date is going. I glanced at my watch and it was 8:30 P.M. I told myself if I am lucky I could be home by 10:00 P.M. We got to the restaurant and he got out of the car. Let me just tell you, everything and I mean everything he told me about himself was a lie, from his height, to his weight. I didn't understand. He used a cane to walk. He had a limp. Why did he have to lie? I don't understand this concept. We are going to find out eventually when we meet. Don't people understand this? It is not good to lie. It makes you look bad. I have gone out with men before that weren't good looking and to me that doesn't matter as long as you are honest with me and yourself.

Dinner was scary, we went inside and he held my hand. We just didn't go together at all. I was upset that he lied to me and he acted like there wasn't anything wrong. We ordered dinner and I noticed that when he smiled his teeth were all black in the front. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The reason I bring this up is. I have worked in the dental field for what seems like forever. I am a dental assistant. So of course your teeth are what I notice first. It was embarrassing. I wanted to go home. We finished eating and I had excused myself and went around the corner and had asked my mom to call me in 10 minutes. She did and it created an excuse for us to leave early. I told him my daughter was sick and I needed to go home and get her early. Yes I have used that excuse many times.

Danny was a very sweet guy. I just didn't appreciate the lies that he told me, he refused to look at me at all on our date. He covered his face the entire time. The whole thing was really strange. I know he was embarrassed. He called me a few times after that. He told me how much he loved me. I eventually told him I wasn't interested.