A woman is embarrassed because she gave a fake name to a man she met in the pub, and now the pair have been on a few dates she doesn't know how to come clean to him.
When they first started speaking in the pub she gave a fake name as she's not too keen on her own - but she wasn't expecting things to go as far as they have. Now, she's not sure what to do because they've started talking more, and she's still not revealed her real identity to him.
Airing her embarrassment on Mumsnet, she said she didn't think the conversation would last longer than five minutes.
The woman, who remained anonymous, explained: "I feel like an absolute idiot. I am an idiot. And this was childish.
"But when I met a man at a pub, I gave a fake name. I just made something easy up on the spot, thinking the conversation would last five minutes and that would be that.
"My actual name is boring, old fashioned and a bit embarrassing. So I have occasionally just made something better up if it's a situation like Starbucks when they're just putting your name on the cup."
But things took a turn when her and the man from the pub actually got on and started talking more.
"Anyway, we got on brilliantly. He took my number and we messaged for a couple of weeks. We have now been on two dates and I still haven't told him that the name I said, isn't actually my name! What the hell do I do," she said.
"It's gone too far to come back from, hasn't it. I'm so embarrassed."
In response, many flooded the comments with advice to the woman with some saying she should just be honest with him.
One person wrote: "Or I would tell him your real name is x. But it's embarrassing and you really liked him initially you didn’t want him to be put off."
While another stated: "It will seem a bit weird waiting till a couple of weeks and dates later but better now than even further down the line."
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