''lovestruck student who was given a wrong number by a mystery girl''

[Thelnebriati]

How is 'persistent pest who won't take no for an answer and scared his victim into giving a false name, address and phone number'' a romantic story?
The only good thing is that many of the comments (even in the Sun) aren't buying it.

He is a third year psychology student. He is going to be working with vulnerable people. Should one of his tutors take him to one side and have a chat?

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/student-hand-writes-100-letters-18794615

In case you cant see the article;

A lovestruck student who was given a wrong number by a mystery girl he met in a park has penned over a hundred hand-written letters in a desperate bid to track her down.
Serban Raia painstakingly spent ten hours writing out the notes to the woman - known only as Amy - before posting them along the street where she told him she lived.

Serban began chatting with Amy in Radford Park, Nottingham, and hit it off before she agreed to go on a date with him to the Peak District.

Speaking to student news site The Tab, Serban, who studies Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience, said: "Maybe things didn’t work out the way I wanted.
"But at least I know what kind of man I am, and it makes a hell of a good story too.
“Given that we had such a good connection I decided to trust her, and not assume that it wasn’t that she didn’t want to talk to me anymore.”

The polarisation of 'trustworthy' against 'didn't want to talk to me any more' is galling.

If the genders were reversed you can imagine what people would say about her

Arf. Ridiculous chancer turns creepy. This is not a love story.

Alternative headline.

Creep Who Can’t Take a Hint From a Woman He’s Made Feel Uncomfortable.

He was wearing a yellow shirt and orange shorts

Mate, she didn't make a mistake. She picked up creep vibes from you and deliberately gave you a wrong number. Quite wisely, as it turns out.

I just want to scream from the rooftops;
He is a third year psychology student. He is going to be working with vulnerable people.

Dear lord! That poor young woman will now be living with the fear that someone eh ok she has possibly confided in about the creepy stalker, will let him know who she is. Wtf did the paper think that was a good story to publish? The arrogance of that little prick, to assume she made a mistake, rather than she didn’t want to give her details.

Oh gosh. The sense of creepy entitlement here is astounding. Had to check my calendar to see that it is indeed 2020, and I am not living in 1950's BarbaraCartlandLand

I doubt she'll feel safe enough to use that park again.

@Thelnebriati this is why Freud asked his wannabe psychoanalysts to go through a thorough psychoanalysis themselves before they approached vulnerable people. Unfortunately psychology is less structured and does not require practitioners to find the skeletons in the closets of their minds before treating others.

The third-year student at the University of Nottingham said he decided to pen the love letters after the pair enjoyed an "instant connection" during their chance meeting.

I think he should rename that his pecker.

@Thelnebriati not necessarily, a lot of psychology graduates go into marketing. Unfortunately a lot of women mistake obsession from a man as meaning he loves them.

Next time the poor girl will no doubt feel forced to give a false street name, as well as false phone number. (Although let's hope she did that already!)

Yy was also going to say he will need to do a doctorate before becoming a clinical psychologist and that is not an easy course to get on 🙏

How many time’s have you seen on tv though, that a persistent attempt to get the girl, ends up winning the girl?

No it shouldn’t be happening and the fact he’s a psych student is worse

Bleugh.

It's the Scum, I'm not surprised.

If she really liked him, she'd have given him her number. It's not romantic, it's creepy.

Wow. That is awful. I agree with a PP, scary, the way he has two polarised narratives, one that he graciously gives her the benefit of the doubt; that she is trustworthy. And not that she is a BAD person who gave him an incorrect number. Because he's too good a person to think that.

Wow. The delusion and the ego of him.

In this day and age, if somebody doesn't add your number, social media or email then and there they are probably not that interested

Prefacing this with a "not all psych students" but having been tutor to a range of students across a range of science subjects, I would say a not insignificant minority of psych students are drawn to the subject in a spirit of "physician heal thyself."

This is frightening.
If the 'girl' was genuinely keen, she'd make no mistake- you exchange numbers with contacts you want to keep, phone to phone- one texts or rings the other, so you have their correct number.

I once met someone I felt I had an ''instant'' connection with- but never saw them again {years ago, before mobile phones} It does make one tend to build up a crazy 'fantasy' of what they'd be like-
What this chap is doing is creepy and stalkerish though.. Poor 'Amy'!.

@DianasLasso

Prefacing this with a "not all psych students" but having been tutor to a range of students across a range of science subjects, I would say a not insignificant minority of psych students are drawn to the subject in a spirit of "physician heal thyself."

As someone who worked with many psychologists over the years, in the health service, I’m inclined to agree.

I hope to god “Amy” was smart enough to give him a fake name too.

I hope this girl told enough people about this strange obsessive man to get a warning about how his obsession has developed so she can contact the police.

Jesus Christ.

Eek - deafened by ringing alarm bells