• stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Huh. Throw out the cheating angle and what you have is a restaurant business development plan for 5 or 6 ladies you know who’d like to eat for free every night. I guess the bill comes due when they need to shake the dude loose at the end of the night and then deal with his phone calls for weeks or worse.

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          24 days ago

          There are plenty of services that let you use burner numbers. Hushed and Burner are some popular ones, or MySudo if you want several whole profiles (phone number, email, etc).

          Or if you’re insane like me you can self-host a custom frontend for Telnyx.

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        I matched with two women recently who weren’t using their real name on the dating app, just first initials, A and Z. For A, I didn’t get her number until the end of our first date. For Z, she gave me her number before she gave me her real name and we still haven’t had our first date yet, busy schedules.

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          24 days ago

          I find that fascinating. I just wouldn’t turn up to an internet date who wouldn’t give me their number. If safety is an issue then get a burner number.

          I married an internet date and our kids are nearly teens now. 🤷‍♀️

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      24 days ago

      Throw out the cheating angle

      At this point, it’s less “cheating” and more “being trafficked by your boyfriend”