He Said Someone Like Him Would Never Date Me — So I Made Sure He Never Would

car started acting up, he joked about how unreliable it was—probably held together by hope and duct tape. He didn’t ask me to buy a new one. He just mentioned his credit wasn’t great, how the interest rates would kill him, how it would be smarter if someone with better credit handled it temporarily.

“I’ll make the payments,” he promised. “I just need continue reading …