The Great Guy I Met on Match.com Finally Told Me the Truth

Klara Jane Holloway
2 min readDec 13, 2021

He already had a girlfriend. He was just checking to see what was “out there.”

Photo by Anna Kaminova on Unsplash

Yes, he is an ass!

I’d been using online dating sites for 4 years. I often heard guys I met up with say, “I just wanted to see what was out there”. They’d say this to my face. Like women were a commodity, such as a refrigerator, to go shopping for.

It sounded so shallow to me.

So, a guy messages me. He ticked off all my boxes. He was 7 years older then me but still looked and sounded good. His pics were old so I told him he should put some more recent ones on his profile. He didn’t get upset at my suggestion. He posted a very recent selfie. We met. We clicked. We proceeded to have a lot of fun. At first he kind of annoyed me but like magic he was astute enough to pick up on the things that bothered me and he fixed them. Amazing. We went to church together 3 times! There’s a miracle in itself that endeared me to him. Wonderful dates followed. We went to fun places and did fun things.

After a couple months, and some great kissing, he dropped the bomb. He hemmed and hawed and finally blurted out he had been having a sexual relationship with another “gal”. Long before he met me. How could this be? I thought he might be “the one”. After 4 years I met a guy I thought I…

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Klara Jane Holloway

I write about my experiences in life. Some mundane, some sad, some funny, and hopefully none boring!