The Psychopath

Give your number out with caution because you never know if the receiver is a psychopath. I learned too late that you can obtain a fake number through Google or other wonderful portals that can easily be deleted and replaced with a new number. If you don't do that and give your real number out, then you run the risk of having a psychopath stuck to you like glue. A psychopath as used here is anyone who refuses to take "no" for an answer, stalks you by following you, cyberstalks you, calls you incessantly, or otherwise engages in abnormal behavior thinking you can be wooed. The psychopath never leaves you alone unless a court orders him to do so.

Unfortunately for me, I have acquired my own psychopath after being freed from my abusive ex. Observe:

Let me talk to you about this little gem. I exchanged a few emails with him in POF when I was freshly single. After the exchange, as most females may do, I agreed to give my number. After the phone conversation, I decided that I wasn't interested because the man sounded like an idiot. I politely told him that I wasn't interested in meeting him and wished him well.

He could not take "no" for an answer. He will NOT leave me alone, not even almost a year later. 

He proceeded to send me pictures of his penis, telling me what I was missing. He also cussed me out, and wouldn't stop calling my phone. I had my carrier block his number, but those blocks last only 3 months before the carrier requires you to renew the block. 

As soon as the block expired, he began to text me and call me again. He switches screen names on POF routinely to message me. I have reported him and blocked him on POF. He is a textbook psychopath. He has made an appearance again this week. Of course, I have blocked him again, but I'm sure he will find another way to contact me. I am seriously considering getting an injunction against stalking. I am now preserving all of the messages to build a case when I do apply for the injunction. 

A word to the wise: be careful giving out your number to a fish in the ocean of dating. You never know what you will get.