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Reddit Relationship Storie That is Almost Too Crazy to Believe
The guy who's definitely getting catfished.
We’re in the age of online dating, and with it come a lot of risks: Do they look like their picture? Are they as nice as they seem in text? And the list continues…
My best friend has fallen deep in love with what is most certainly a catfish but he won't listen to me. How to make him snap out of it?
I (35 M) feel like I'm losing my best friend (36 M). About 4 months ago, my best friend from childhood started talking to this girl (34 F) he met on OK Cupid. She sent him pictures, and she's stunning. She tells him: she has only been with one other guy, she's a VIRGIN?!, is a vegan just like him, plays the same sports as him, was a nurse practitioner and recently got her license to practicing medicine as an MD...and most fishy of all won't video chat with him.
They were supposed to meet in person a couple months ago, but she took a trip out of town and all of a sudden her dad had a stroke and mom got cancer (within a month of each other) and so she went across the country to take care of them. She says she doesn't want to video chat because she says she wants the first time they meet to be special—and says that she's old fashioned like that (she's from the Philippines and says that she's very…