This Girl Brought A First Date To Her Family Christmas Dinner
This is a true story from Inner Circle user Jeske, who invited a first date to Christmas dinner with her family. We found out she was doing this, told her she was amazing, and asked her to write about her experience:
One of my goals is to have a relationship again in 2020, but I’m not into dating 30 guys on 6 different dating apps to find out that most guys are disappointing in real life. I wanted to have some fun and do something crazy with a date. So two weeks before the end of 2019 I changed my goal: I want a date for Christmas to bring to my family. I thought if a guy has the courage to have a first date at Christmas, then he should be amazing!
So I changed my profile on my Inner Circle only one week before Christmas: ‘Looking for someone to be my +1 at my family Christmas dinner. Yes, this Christmas 2019. (I know, it’s short notice)’ I didn’t expect any serious response, I mean don’t you have plans with your friends and family? And while some were a bit creepy, I got so many fun and crazy responses!
I was already talking to a guy who seemed really nice and he hadn’t seen my new profile. So I thought, I’m going to ask him. It took 24 hours for him to come to the conclusion that this was a totally insane idea but most of all so much fun! He texted me the next day: ‘Let's do this’.
Jeske, looking up date ideas and thinking “I can do better”.
OMG, suddenly I completely panicked, so many horror scenarios went through my mind. He could be catfisher, a serial killer or terribly boring and I would ruin Christmas for my whole family. My grandmother would cry, my brother would be angry, and so on..
I suggested he could come to my place one hour before the dinner. This hour would give me the opportunity to ditch him if we didn’t have any connection at all, and to make sure he was normal enough to bring home to my family.
Since the moment I saw him there was something, a vibe. We didn’t even want to go to the dinner because we had such a good time together.
I warned my family in advance that I would bring a date, but of course everybody thought we already knew each other. I was waiting for the question “Where did you meet?” It took 10 minutes, I told them that we just met one hour ago. You should have seen their faces, all jaws dropped!! And the cherry on the cake… my brother and his girlfriend organized a Christmas quiz, the last round was a performance with your teammates. So he ended the evening with my mom and nephew dancing and playing air guitar to Queen in the middle of the living room.
And we had our second date 5 days later, just the two of us.
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