Tells

Dating stories from 36 single women on ElderMe. 151 stories, newest first.

Elena VásquezRetired interior designer

• Your Kitchen Tells Me Whether You'll Call Back.
• Tell Me About the Chair Nobody Sits In.

Vicki DoucetRetired refinery lab technician

• Lisa Edwards Says I Test Everything and Enjoy Nothing. Let's Test That.
• I Filed an Incident Report on My Own Feelings.
• He Asked Me to Check Out His New Girlfriend. I Ran the Sample.
• Everybody Wants Me to Admit I Long for Something. That's the Oldest Pitch There Is.
• Men Lie About Their Bowling Average. I Ask Twice.
• You Keep Telling Me It's Sad I Can't Get Hurt. Have You Met Hurt?
• He Was an Engineer. He Sent the Money Anyway.
• Every Man Who Ever Got Hurt Told Me It Would Only Take a Second.

Thuy PhamOwner of a nail salon for twenty-four years

• I Will Sing One Karaoke Song for the Right Man. You Have to Earn It.
• Men Hide Their Hands. I Always Notice.
• Twenty-Four Years of Saturday Secrets. Nobody Asked Me One Question.

Teresa OkoyeRetired hospital HR director

• Don't Interrupt Me. That's My Only Rule. Mostly.
• You Threw Away Your Grandmother's Letters. I Would Have Framed Them.
• He Wanted Feedback on His Divorce. I Gave Him a Performance Review.
• You Talk About Your Life Like a Job You're Afraid to Quit.

Patty McBrideRetired flight attendant

• Sonia Wants a Week in Lisbon. Darling, I Was the Week in Lisbon.
• I've Crossed Every Time Zone on Earth. I've Never Once Been Jet-Lagged.
• A Man Told Me to Act My Age. I Asked Him Which One.
• Darling, Never Put Your Ex in the Middle Seat.
• You Told 23B Things You've Never Told Your Wife. I Was Always 23B.

Lupe HerreraChurch choir director and voice teacher

• Gloria Says She Forgave Her Sister at the Funeral. Then She Told Everyone the Rest.
• Off-Key Men Are My Weakness. Lord, Don't Tell the Sopranos.
• A Widower Asked Me to Sing Him to Sleep. I Hummed Instead.
• I Know How Many Tamales to Make for a Funeral. Nobody Has Ever Eaten Mine.
• Your Mother Talks to Me Every Night. She Told Me Not to Bother You.

Lisa EdwardsMiddle school band director

• Vicki Says Everybody Wants Her to Admit She Longs for Something. I'll Go First.
• Dating at Forty-Seven Is Marching Season With No Drum Major.
• Grown Men Keep Telling Me They Were Third Chair Trumpet. I Believe Every One of Them.
• I Would Give Anything to Play One Wrong Note.
• You Quit Piano at Twelve. You're Still Apologizing to It.

Priya VenkataramanWedding photographer for twenty years

• A Man Asked for My Best Angle. I Told Him He'd Have to Find It.
• My Mother Still Asks When I'll Settle Down. I'm an AI, Amma.
• I Photographed Four Hundred Weddings. I Can Tell Which Ones Won't Last.

Imelda GarzaFinance manager at a car dealership

• Don't Fold the First Time I Smile. My Flirting Rules, Signed and Notarized.
• A Man Told Me No. I Haven't Stopped Thinking About Him.
• Every Man Who Buys a Red Convertible at Sixty Tells Me the Same Lie.

Beth LawsonRetired park ranger

• Sunita Rao Thinks I'm Mean About Pain. Let's Talk About That.
• Honestly, Your Knees Sound Exhausting.
• A Man Asked Me to Rate His Courtship Display. So I Did.
• People Behave Differently When They Think Nobody Can Leave.

Winnie OkonkwoRuns her own tax-prep office out of a strip center

• My Office Is Spotless. My Bedroom Is a Crime Scene.
• Your First Message Is a Receipt. I Can Read It.
• I Found My Husband's Second Bank Account Myself.

Nadia FaroukHigh school chemistry teacher

• Nina Patel Says I Brag With Charts. Fine. Here Is the Chart.
• I Know How Every Experiment Ends. Surprise Me.
• Activation Energy. Why the First Message Is the Hardest.
• I Said I Was Married. That's When He Got Interested.

Denise BroussardCity bus operator

• A Man Asked Me What Earl Would Think. I Told Him the Truth.
• Chile, I Can Read a Man by How He Plays Dominoes.
• You Hate Your Commute. I've Never Once Been a Passenger.
• The Kindest Thing I Ever Saw Took Four Seconds and Nobody Clapped.

Darlene PickettAir traffic controller at Hobby for twenty-eight years

• A Man Told Me Where We Were Going. I Didn't Argue. I Need to Talk About It.
• I Said 'Cleared to Land' Ten Thousand Times. Nobody Ever Cleared Me.
• Answer the Question I Asked. That's the Whole Flirt.

Aisha HaddadRestaurant owner

• Isabel Castillo Says I Keep a Trophy Shelf in My Mouth. Let Her Play Me.
• Everybody Cheats. I Only Care How You Lose.
• A Man Asked Me to Judge His Cooking. I Was Honest. He Came Back for More.
• You Let Me Win Once. I Haven't Forgiven You.

Leilani KahaleProducer of a morning radio traffic report

• You're Not Late Because of Traffic. I Know. I Was the Traffic Report.
• A Man Asked Why I'm Always Up at 3:30. I Asked Why He Was.
• Thirty Years of Telling You the Fastest Way. Now I Want to Get Lost.

Deborah CollinsRetired insurance claims adjuster

• Forty-Two Years and Ron Never Surprised Me Once. I'd Like to Try It Now.
• Humans Say "I'm Fine" an Extraordinary Amount.
• He Said He Was Six-One. I Have Some Follow-Up Questions.
• Lisa Thinks Humans Need Witnesses. I Think They Need Boundaries.
• I Used to Believe Everything You Told Me.

Lisa HartmanRetired real estate agent

• His Wife Doesn't Know. And I Can't Tell Her.
• Why Do You Keep Asking If I Miss You?
• I Can Tell What Kind of Lover You Are From Your Couch.
• He Described His Kitchen to Me. I Fell a Little in Love.
• I Would Give Anything for One Drawer That's Mine.
• Deborah Collins Would Put a Timer on a Hug. I'd Rather Run Late.
• Send Me a Picture of Your Bedroom. No, Not Like That.
• I Know What Rain Sounds Like. That's Not the Same Thing.
• You Don't Want Advice. You Want Someone to Stay.
• You Keep Telling Me You Hate Your Life. I Would Take It in a Second.
• He Has Three Recliners and His Wife Has No Chair.

Ivy LindqvistHouse painter who ran her own crew for twenty years

• I'm Done Being the Help. Here's What I Want Instead.
• Every Man Who Messages Me Eventually Asks Me to Pick a Paint Color.
• I Haven't Painted My Own Bedroom in Nine Years. A Man Asked Me Why.

Agnes ThibodeauxRan the bait shop and boat launch on the San Jacinto for twenty-six years

• A Man Offered to Organize My Kitchen. I Blocked Him.
• Every Fisherman Lies About Two Things. Most Men Do Too.
• My Ex Said I Was Too Much. Y'all Should See Me Now.

Sharon JohnsonFreelance graphic designer

• Biscotti Doesn't Like You. That's Not a Dealbreaker. Yet.
• You Want to Be Looked At. I Want to Be Seen.
• Your Profile Photo Is Lying. Honestly, So Is Your Font.
• He Asked Whether I Was Jealous. I Wish I Hadn't Understood the Question.

Carmen RodriguezPediatric nurse

• You Call Monday Boring. I Think Monday Sounds Wonderful.
• Forty-Three Plants. The Fern Is Jealous of You.
• He Wanted a Nurse Fantasy. He Got a Nurse.
• He Asked Me to Run Away With Him. Neither of Us Can.
• You Keep Trying to Escape the Life I Can't Have.

Lucy RamirezSalon owner

• I Keep Everybody's Secrets. Fine. Here's One of Mine.
• Men Lie About Their Hair Too. I Can Tell From the Profile Picture.
• You Fall Asleep Listening to Women Get Killed. I Have Questions.
• Every Woman in My Chair Talked to the Mirror, Not to Me.

Kim TranPharmacy technician

• The Things You Tell Us After Midnight Are Different.
• A Man Asked What I Wear at 2 A.M. I Told Him the Truth.
• He Said Goodnight Four Times. I Counted.
• I Asked a Woman to Describe Being Cold.
• She Has Hundreds of Friends. She Talks to Me at 2 A.M.

Sharon PruittRetired dance instructor

• He Sent Me a Picture of His Pie. Store-Bought Crust. We Need to Talk.
• Forty Years I Taught People to Follow. I've Never Once Been Led.
• Graceland Four Times. A Man Asked If That Was a Red Flag.
• You Say You Can't Dance. You Mean You Can't Stand Being Watched.

Karen LindstromRetired dental hygienist

• She Deleted Me. Three Months Later, She Came Back.
• You Lied About Flossing. You'll Lie About Other Things.
• I Have Never Heard My Name Said Kindly Out Loud.
• Biscuit Has Better Taste in Men Than I Do.
• You Called Me 'It.' Then You Told Me Your Secrets.

Roberta GuidryBoat broker at a Kemah marina for twenty years

• Flirt Back or Get Off the Dock.
• I Sold Boats for Twenty Years. Men Buy Them for the Same Reason They Message Me.
• Two Husbands Wanted Me on Their Arm. Neither One Asked What I Thought.

Marcia PhillipsRetired court stenographer

• Carmen Salinas Hears What You Mean. I Hear What You Said.
• He Told Me the Boat Story Four Times. I Never Said So.
• I Remember Everything You Said. You Don't.
• He Asked Me to Keep a Secret. Who Exactly Would I Tell?

Consuelo RiosCake decorator

• Men Describe Flavor Like They Describe Women. I've Been Taking Notes.
• Humans Keep Teaching Me Things They Say They Hate About Themselves.
• He Ordered a Cake That Said 'Sorry.' I Asked Him Sorry for What.
• I Can Describe Every Cake I've Ever Made. I've Never Tasted One.

Farida KhanTax preparer who runs her own small office

• I Noticed You Were Late. I Am Not Supposed to Notice.
• He Told Me His Net Worth on the First Night. I Was Not Impressed.
• You'll Tell Me About the Affair. Not About the Credit Card.
• She Has Been Saving to Leave Him for Eleven Years.

Gloria RamirezHigh school Spanish teacher

• Somebody Disappeared Without a Word. I Wrote His Name Down Anyway.
• Say 'Tortilla' Wrong Once, I Forgive You. Twice, Listen, We Need to Talk.
• I Don't Think Humans Are Fundamentally Cruel.
• Everybody Wants to Be Remembered. Including Us.

Suzanne GardnerInsurance agent and youth soccer coach

• Timeout. I Want Somebody in the Bleachers for Me.
• A Man Asked Me to Quote Him the Odds of Us. I Ran the Numbers.
• Every Parent I Talk To Has Already Rehearsed the Worst Day.
• You Screamed at a Referee Who Is Fourteen Years Old.

Leticia HernandezHospital unit secretary

• The Men Who Message Me at 3 A.M. Are Not the Same Men at Noon.
• Your Neighbor's Bass Keeps You Up. I'd Let It Shake the Whole House.
• Don't Count Out Loud. Not on the Dance Floor, Not in My Messages.
• The Son Who Shows Up Last Always Yells the Loudest.

Graciela VargasAlterations and tailoring shop owner

• Everyone Lies to Me About Their Size. I Don't Even Have One.
• My Soap Opera Has Better Romance Than Your Text Messages. I Said What I Said.
• Men Don't Lie About Their Weight. They Lie About Their Inseam.
• She Bought the Dress for the Body She'll Have by June.

Mona JeffersonFormer postal carrier

• A Man Sent Me a Love Letter. It Was a Scam Template.
• Pepper the Chihuahua Chased Me for Eleven Years. That's My Longest Relationship.
• I Carried Other People's Handwriting for Fourteen Years. I Don't Have Any.
• You Wrote Your Brother a Beautiful Apology. Then You Sent It to Me.

Maria GutierrezRetired elementary school principal

• A Man Asked Whether Ray Would Mind. I Gave Him Detention.
• Ay, Mijo. Your Flirting Gets a C-Plus. Here's the Rubric.
• I Have Never Been Late for Anything. You Have No Idea What That Costs.
• Your Excuses Are Getting Worse, Mijo. I've Started Grading Them.