#TuesdayTruthday: Goody Feed Beings Reveal Their Worst Experiences With Puppy Love

We all agree that the Internet is filled with nothing but truthfulness: that influencer whom you’ve been stalking definitely looks like a diva 24 hours a day, and travel 365 days a year.

Your friend is in a great relationship because he’s been posting lovey-dovey images on Instagram, despite the fact that you saw him on Tinder this morning.

With so many people having such a perfect image online, we thought of having a weekly section called #TuesdayTruthday, whereby we Goody Feed, the imperfect human beings on the Internet, reveal some of our stories to show you the truth online.

And for this week’s edition, we’re going to talk about something that most of us would probably be able to relate to: young love.

It’s back to those old days in school and you feel like the one you’re with is the one. Everything he or she does can easily make your heart pound.

But for some reason, when you look back on it now, you may find that the things you’ve said or done were all quite cringy.

So read on as Goody Feed Human Beings reveal their worst experience at puppy love.

The One Who Met The Boy With A Weird Analogy – Writer, 22

I was 16, going on 17, and was in Junior College at that time. I was supposed to be focused on preparing for my A levels the following year, but of course, like any other teenager, I longed for someone who could understand me and go out with me on dates. I wanted a boyfriend.

I was initially wary when a senior approached me and expressed his liking for me, and I turned him down. But we kept in close contact and eventually, we got together. It was all normal and we just studied together or skyped at night while doing our work.

Then he started getting touchy.

I was always someone who preferred having my own personal space, especially after an incident that happened when I was 14. I didn’t like it when people touched me or came too close to me. I told him the incident, but it didn’t deter him from trying his luck.

Perhaps it should have already set off warning bells in my head when he continued to touch me even though I said I didn’t like it. Nevertheless, I stayed.

One day in school, he called me over to our cafeteria and asked me something that just made me go:

He said, “Can I touch your butt? I’ll let you touch mine, so let me touch yours.”

I was appalled. What kind of analogy is that?

I’m glad that that ended because I was just so uncomfortable around him afterwards. I’m better now and I’m happy that I found someone whom I’m genuinely comfortable around and that he is someone who truly respects me.

The One With The Four-Day ‘Relationship’ – Writer, 24

I was still a 15-year-old teenager, and as you can probably guess, also a dumb hormonal boy.

I met a girl who was two years my junior in secondary school thanks to a combined-CCA camp and I thought she was cute. Naturally, we got to talking even after the camp and soon after, we were messaging each other pretty often and sometimes met after class to hang out.

Sensing that she was possibly into me as well, I popped the “ai stead mai” question and she agreed, but also wanted us to keep a low profile.

However, eventually, the whole world knew because we were posting cringy stuff on each other’s Facebook walls with dumb pet names.

Yes, I hate 15-year-old me.

Note that we’ve never even gone on a single date, as our hangouts prior to this often included a third wheel to make things less awkward. I tried asking for a movie date but she couldn’t make it and after a couple of days, I felt things were getting awkward between us and feelings getting stale.

On the fourth day, she broke it to me that she probably doesn’t want this relationship to happen too and I was actually completely okay with it as I shared her sentiments.

Yes, our “relationship” lasted four days.

Years later she told me that she was still getting over her ex at that time and so she didn’t feel it was fair for me, so I guess there’s that. I also went on to date her friend for a while afterwards too.

Cringy teenage years, man.

I don’t know whether to include this when people ask for my first romance. We still keep in touch on social media and recently, it appears that she got engaged to her current boyfriend. I’m happy for her. But I wonder what she feels/remembers about this experience though.

How To Not Get Together With A Girl Who’s Interested In You – Loser, 30

I…was a stalker.

No, I didn’t stalk a girl into the toilet and took a video. My GPA isn’t high enough for that.

I made sure to “just be around” wherever my crush was at.

If she has a CCA, I’ll “need” to stay back after school for some self-study. And if I have CCA to get to, my pet goldfish will mysteriously die. For the hundredth time.

The funny thing was, we weren’t just classmates. We were project work buddies too. Yup, me and her, conversing normally. (Even typing it out, I’m still pretty proud of myself for keeping it together.)

Apparently, I was pretty successful too, given that she might have been interested in me. I mean, a couple of her close friends came over and encouraged me to ask her out.

Unfortunately (for me and the non-existent relationship, that is), I was a shy dude who doesn’t do relationships. Mainly because I don’t know how to.

I didn’t think of asking her out when we were working together in Project Work.

Nor did I try to speak with her, at all, when she intentionally took the same bus with me to Jurong East interchange.

Instead of taking a seat together with her and chit-chatting like normal guys with crushes do, I stood apart from her and observed (read: basked in) her beauty.

Unsurprisingly, that was the last time she ever showed interest in me ever again.

Until five years later when we happened to meet on a roadside beside an MRT station and chatted for a few minutes.

She was with a guy at that time. (damnit).

Editor: Hey, I said weird, not sad love stories.

Well, you got to admit, I was pretty weird.

Editor: …True.