Online Dating Gets Ugly (Mostly True Stories of a Single Guy who Survived Dating on the World Wide Web)

By Ben Horne

Do you like watching or reading about people making fools out of themselves? If there was a car wreck on the road, would you slow down to watch? If you are the type of person who enjoys a good laugh at the expense of someone else, then this is the book for you.

I decided to see what it would be like to have no standards when meeting women off the internet. I met many and had some great times and some horrible times. I met some real interesting women and some real nasty women. I had many new experiences and lots of the same experiences.

I cherry picked a few of my experiences and put them into this book. These are some of my worst experiences. You will laugh, you will empathize for me and you will probably wonder how I could have possibly done some of the things I did.

I made mistakes, lots and lots of mistakes. I learned many lessons and grew as a person. Read about those mistakes and have a good laugh at my expense. Who knows, you might learn a lesson or two in the process.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John's World Publishing
• Release date: Nov 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301497706

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Online Dating Gets Ugly

Mostly True Stories of a Single Guy who Survived Dating on the World Wide Web

Written by Ben Horne

Online Dating Gets Ugly

Mostly True Stories of a Single Guy who Survived Dating on the World Wide Web

Ben Horne

This book is published by John’s World Publishing Fort Mill, SC at Smashwords.

Copyright © 2012 by Ben Horne.

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Table of Contents

You Have Been Disclaimed

I was Forced at Gun Point to Write This

I Must be Crazy for Writing This

Hairy Women from Planet Redneck

Cushin for the Pushin

Her First Orgasm

Prostitute that Stole my Heart

Foul Skeletor

Too Good to be Real

The Bitchy Redneck, The Cocky Ex, The Crazy Pregnant Bitch and Me

The Threesome that Never happened

The Point Was

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You Have Been Disclaimed

The people described in this book are more or less real.  The descriptions and conversations mostly happened.  Due to this, I am not going to mention any names in this book.  I must protect the innocent, ugly, hairy and smelly.  I will be brutally honest to the point of embarrassing myself.  At the same time, I did exaggerate a little to make the book better, and I changed some situations in order to protect the identity of the other person involved.  The twist is you won’t know what was changed or what actually happened.

I was Forced at Gun Point to Write This

I wrote this for a few reasons.  First and most influential, there was someone holding a gun to my head forcing me to write this book.  I swear it is true.  I wouldn’t lie.  Ok, maybe I fib a little.  Alright, you got me.  There was no one pointing a gun at my head.  I wrote this to make money.  That’s the real reason I wrote this. 

I have a tremendous number of stories from my many years being single.  I will admit that at first I was scared to write this.  I have made some poor choices and certainly did some embarrassing things.  I originally planned on never telling anyone these stories.  Telling anyone these things can be scary.  I am genuinely putting myself out there.  I also realized that if I didn’t divulge the details and shocking truth, no one would buy this book, and I wouldn’t make any money.  My goal is to make you laugh till you pee yourself, be a big grossed out and sympathize with me on occasion. I really hope that by the end of the book, I will have reached my goal.

I Must be Crazy for Writing This

I’m guessing right about now, you are asking yourself who am I?  Well I am about to tell you more about me than most know. 

Hang on a second.  I’m building the courage to tell you everything. 

Gosh, this is harder than I expected. 

Ok, I’m ready. 

Here, goes nothing……… 

I am fairly average in some ways.  I’m average in height, hair and eye color.  I’d be the average weight if I lived in another country, but here in America, I am well below the average weight of men my height.  The one area I am above average is my manhood.  I am extremely grateful for that.  Average seems too small for me.  Don’t go thinking I am gigantic either, because I am not.  I am just above average, and I’m cool with that.

I am shy in some ways and outgoing in others.  I can talk to just about anyone, when I must.  I have worked many jobs that involved talking to the public.  When I am talking about something I am passionate about, you have to hit me with a hammer to get me to shut up.  The two areas where I am the shyest are asking women out and making small talk.  I am not good at either. 

I was bullied when I was in school, and for this reason, I am who I am.  I was made to feel extremely ugly by all the other kids.  Due to this, I never thought women liked me.  I thought that all women saw me as ugly.  I felt terribly unwanted.   This kept me from having a high self esteem.  It also made me tremendously shy around women who I found attractive. 

I didn’t like the image staring back at me in the mirror.  I eventually learned apathy and stopped caring about what I looked like.  I tried to focus on being a good person in general.  Sometimes I succeeded and sometimes I failed.  I have tried to learn from failures and not make the same mistake twice.  I will admit that when it came to dating, I made the same mistakes far more than twice.

I finally discovered that the internet could be an excellent place to meet people and even date.  The internet changed how I saw myself.  I am thankful for that. I know I am, at least partially, the man I am today, because of the internet.

After months of talking online to many different women from all over the world, I was gaining confidence.  Many of them kept complimenting me.  They regularly told me that I was attractive.  This constant positive input about my looks slowly grew my self esteem.  I wasn’t attracted to most of the women who were telling me that I looked good, but after a while that didn’t matter.  I was seriously starting to crave the attention. 

I started to converse with more and more women.  I wanted to get to know all of them.  My intention was actually to find out about them and maybe even give out a little advice to help them if they needed it.  Many times they did.  I online dated and even tried committing to some of them even though I had never met them and they lived far away.  They always broke it off, usually because they found someone closer to them to be with or they just flat out cheated.  I have never cheated on anyone after I have given a commitment to them and I never will. 

My word is my bond.  When I give it, I try my hardest to keep it.  I feel that my word is truly all that I have.  Without that, I have no real self respect.  To me, self respect is about how I treat other.  Guilt and shame can destroy our self respect and those emotions directly correlate to how I treat others. Keeping my word is an enormous part of that.   This is one of the reasons that I did some of the things that I did.

 I realize that some of you might think that I did some of women in this book wrong.  I assure you that is the farthest from the truth.  I will admit that occasionally I was a bit selfish, but so were they.  I always tried to be honest.  Occasionally, the other person