Pete L'oaf for some reason reminded me of this
It's the "telling lies to friends" bit.

About two years after the fiancee died, I met her via the web-- she was into vinyl clothes, BDSM and was a fake ginger. I went to her place for dinner, and she got mad because I was a gentleman and didn't even sit next to her in the livingroom. She didn't invite me to sit by her because that was MY job. Honestly, I was years out of the dating and was relearning.

She's out of work, laid off as a programming for cellphones in a language that cellphones no longer used (c pipe?). She refuses to move out of trendy (expensive) Oak Lawn, goes through her retirement fund and a lot of dad's, refuses to move to another place when offered work, and made some money by selling goth-type items online.

Anyway, one night I show up with a friend when I find out she likes ginger boys with long hair, and he fit the bill (when you saw them from behind, you had to realize she was the heavier one to tell them apart). We go out drinking, and I fall asleep in her bed. They make out in the living room. He confesses on the way home--no problem, I sort of set them up. It's cool.

They date, and she turns out to be insanely jealous of his toddler daughter. He gets a job where he's traveling for training and might move across the US and closer to said daughter. He's working 60+ hours a week and night shifts and otherwise sleeping, although he does have a drinking problem.

I start hearing the stories about him having affairs (one suspect being the hotel clerk that answered the phone when psycho-gf called) and so on. When he finally does shuck her and move to Virginia, I start hearing how he gave her VD, probably from the woman he was dating before her. Last time I heard from her via Yahoo chat, she said she was glad he was married and hopes he is happy and she is happy, too.

I don't know how she found he was married or whether she was bluffing, but I neither confirmed nor denied. I typed I was glad she had moved on and hoped she had a good life, then put her on ignore.

I dodged that bullet, and thankfully he forgave me for setting him up with her.
(ChiTown Guy Dating when 35+: sane, single, attractive - pick 2, Sun 24 Oct 2010, 19:01, Reply)