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Her perfect match was her ex!

Our item in The Buzz (Page 13) about a woman’s experience with an online dating site sparked plenty of laughs in theoffice. It wasn’t the fact she was trying online dating that hit our funny bones. It was the revelation that the site had declared her perfect match was… her brother! Those of us with brothers, including myself, responded with a resounding ‘eeeew’! Some of the team felt their own stories were too numerous and too unfortunate to share. But Lisa was happy to fill us in on her online dating life pre her lovely husband Darren. ‘I have so many terrible stories, it’s hard to choose,’ she laughed. ‘There was the guy who drank too much at dinner, so slept on my lounge. I was in a share house with a lock on my door, so knew I was safe. When I woke up, he was gone and so were the entire contents of my fridge!’ said Lisa. ‘Then there was the guy who didn’t want to talk about his friends. Turns out he was a Scientologist, as was everyone he knew. He’d been borrowing money off me which I realised he was giving to his church. And he was also trying hard to convert me. Needless to say, I backed out of that relationship.’ A colleague who was walking past heard our laughter, and joined in, offering her own online faux pas – such as the night she was heading home in a cab after a few too many wines and ‘swiped’ the wrong way on literally dozens of potential suitors. She woke up the next morning, worse for wear, and with messages from a stream of men eager to get to know her better. But her best story was the dating site that revealed her perfect match was… her ex-husband!