Real Life Crushes That Turned Out to Be Totally Cringeworthy

The course of true love never did run smooth, and we’ve all experienced a few heartbreaks along the way. Some romances, though, are more embarrassing than others. Here are some true life stories of cringeworthy crushes that are better left in the past.

Fight or Flight

In the 7th grade I was a very awkward child. Kinda chubby, no fashion sense, and my face generally resembled a gorilla. I had already accepted the fact that boys weren’t going to like me.

One day I was hanging out with a guy friend, Richard. Richard was a sweet kid and pretty cute and I’d met him through another friend. It was just Richard and me chilling in a hallway when he suddenly asked me to the school dance that was happening on Friday.

I couldn’t believe it. A cute guy had just asked me to a dance?! Are you sure this is real life? Say yes, you idiot, say yes!

So of course I did what any reasonable 13 year old girl would do; I screamed and ran away. Richard didn’t want to hang out with me again after that and I still feel bad about to this day, a decade later.

Story credit: Reddit / red_raconteur

Not the Worst Thing To Find in Someone’s Search History

Went to a guy’s house to do a project in high school. It involved the Internet and while he sat next to me I tried to navigate to Google.

Unfortunately, the address bar auto-filled and took me to his last Google search… page two of results for my name. Every link had been clicked. We both just sat in silence.

Story credit: Reddit / [deleted]

Skin Art

During camp once i overheard of a girl who was into me. I wasn’t that much of a fan of her so I didnt follow it up The day after, I come past this girl and notice part of my name written on her hand.. Asked what the deal was.. she lifted her sleeve and my name was written all over her body.

I WAS SO FREAKED OUT didnt know how to react, I just ran away.. I bump into her here and there nowadays..

Its still extremely awkward…(shivers) Story credit: Reddit / asherwiener

Secret Admirer

In high school, this guy who liked me used to leave love notes in my locker. They always had really disturbing pictures or poems in them.

Not knowing that it was a friend, I used to bring them to the morning table to be like, “who is leaving these in my locker?!?”

I feel bad about it now because it seems everyone knew it was him, but me. Story credit: Reddit / dedicatedreject