Mr Voiceover

Mr Voiceover contacted me telling me how brilliant my profile was.

We exchanged emails, witty banter and arranged to hook up. Being a creative, quirky, intelligent, mildly eccentric character, I felt excited that me and Mr Voiceover would hit it off.

We did. We spent 5 hours together....laughing...story telling...

I felt so at ease in his company and was enjoying myself a little too much that I made the FATAL mistake of telling him about this blog!

He was very shocked-surprised...and said he would be jealous for me to continue on dates if we were to see each other again. He also said he knew there was a catch, that I was too good to be true. He also said that at times on our date I had made his stomach turn over.

I explained to Mr Voiceover that I am genuinely single and searching for the fairytale, for Mr Right. The blog has been a creative interest. I also told him that it is harmless observational humour.

He read some of my posts and told me that it was very rare for him to laugh out loud and that he found my writing to be witty and that the concept was genuis. I re-assured him that I wouldn't write about him because I liked him. He initially said not to write about him and then he changed his mind and wanted me to write about our date.

So when I emailed him the following morning, to thank him for dinner and suss out if he would like to meet up again I was totally flabbergasted by his response.

He told me in no uncertain terms NOT to write about him, his profile, our date. He also told me that he didn't have the balls at the time to tell me what he really thought about the blog and that I should at least be offering sex to these guys on dates so not to waste their time. How insulting?

I emailed him back to tell him how offensive I found his email and that I wish he'd had the bottle to tell me what he really thought on the evening as opposed to spending 5 hours with me, buying me drinks and dinner and telling me how cute (I hate the word cute by the way, cute is for cats, and I hate cats) and intelligent I am and that it's been so long since he has laughed with someone he finds attractive.

Mr Voiceover at this point obviously became even more angry (alpha male, big ego, having an intelligent, articulate woman standing up to him....) as he threatened to inform the website about my creative writing. Now I figured he was throwing his toys out of his cot and this was a veiled threat, but clearly communications had totally broken down between us. Shame. I really did like him, his company and thought we'd had a great 1st date. But he is clearly a Jekyll and Hyde character and very unpredictable. I wished him well for finding love and with his business ideas. Live and let live and all that jazz.

Anyhoo, the moral of the story is keep my cards close to my chest and keep my men at arms length.

Mr Voiceover had my profile pulled from the dating site. He's not bitter or twisted, eh?

It's funny because upon checking the terms and conditions, if you lie about your details then the same thing happens and Mr Voiceover, you're not 39 years old, are you, you're 40 and clearly in a midlife crisis about admitting it. What's more you're launching your own dating website (his car is logo-ed to the hilt) so surely you are utilising this website for research purposes? Didn't you tell me you were also on the site, under a female guise to attract men for your own site? Where's that complaints contact number again??? Tit for tat...plenty more sharks in the sea!

Still searching....lesson learned!