This week we’re feeling the chill of the ice during a hockey game and housing hot dogs for love. It’s not your typical setting for going Instagram official, but it’s the one a supermodel chose to take earlier this week.

That sets the mood for this week’s edition of True Romance. We’re going outside of the traditional box. The boss is trying to hook you up with his daughter, you’re not trying to land a date with her.

Also, it’s good to trust your gut sometimes. Your best friend could actually be jealous of your “too good to be true” significant other and execute a plan to ruin your happiness. Nobody wants a friend like that.

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Let’s get back to that supermodel who decided hockey and hot dogs were the perfect formula for hard launch. It’s Bella Hadid and, according to Page Six, the new man in her life is Nathan Lacy.

The two were rinkside at a Colorado Avalanche game over the weekend “Honoring Hockey Fights Cancer.” It was in an Instagram post about being at the game where Lacy showed up and, by the rules of society, became official.

Hockey and hot dogs. Is there a more romantic setting than that? There are a few that are on the same level, but I can’t think of any that top it.

Congratulations to the lovely couple and to the Avalanche for landing a supermodel as a new fan. Hockey is alive and well.

Bella Hadid poses while eating a hot dog in front of friends during the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings game at Ball Arena on Nov. 7, 2026, in Denver, Colo. (NHLI via Getty Images)

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My boss is trying to set me up with his daughter

It isn’t often that your boss is the one trying to set you up with his daughter. That, to me, is a sign that there’s something else at work here.

Is it fate? Are you the one that’s supposed to teach your boss that it’s not a great idea to set one of his employees up with his daughter?

You’ll never know by sitting on the sideline overthinking the situation. There could be other employees he has in mind, and you could miss out on something special.

That’s where this 23-year-old finds himself. He’s on Reddit wasting his time asking, “What do you guys think I should do?”

He’s conflicted about how to proceed. He finds it strange that his boss is trying to set him up with his daughter, instead of what it really is. And that’s a sign.

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Not just any sign. A sign from the universe. Here’s how he said it all came together and how his boss approached him about dating the 21-year-old daughter:

“I was working with 2 of my co workers out for a job today and at around 4:30 we were waiting for our boss to come and pick us up. When he came to pick us up, he told me that he wants me to date her,” the employee wrote.

“He even called her while we were there and had me talk to her. Once we got to his house to drop off the gear, I was sitting and talking with her for a bit.”

The hard part is out of the way. The dad approves and you’ve already met her.

“I am a bit conflicted on what to do. On 1 hand, its strange that my boss would try to set me up with his daughter even though Ive only been working with him for around a month now,” he continued.

“On the other hand, she looks really pretty and I would not mind dating her at all.”

Let’s throw a third hand into the mix for fun. Why not? This guy could use all the help he can get.

What’s the worst thing that could happen? Now, throw that out because that scenario will never happen.

What are you left with? A shot at love and job security. Isn’t that enough?

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He’s too good to be Mr. Right and that’s why your best friend ruined it for you

This next one is a cautionary tale about trusting your gut. She, for 10 months, dated a guy that she thought was Mr. Right.

The sad reality is that he could have been. She’ll never know after her best friend, who she suspected was jealous of what she had, ruined it for her.

“I really thought I’d found my Mr Right; a lovely guy who had all the same interests, and the sex was out of this world. So the truth about him has completely floored me, and I just can’t seem to pick myself up,” the heartbroken woman wrote to Metro.

“My best friend was always skeptical about him, which I’ll be honest, I put down to jealousy. She just kept telling me he seemed too good to be true, and she turned out to be right.”

Or was she? Was she right or did she ruin it all for you on purpose? Those are two very different things. Let’s see where it goes from here.

Stock image of an upset woman after a breakup. (Getty Images)

Her best friend did some snooping behind her back and found out that he was married with two small children. She knew nothing about his family.

“Unbeknown to me, she did a bit of social media digging, which ended up with her getting in touch with the guy’s wife to double check whether her suspicions were right,” she said.

“She worried that the wife would go mad but instead she was very civil. She said it wasn’t the first time he’d cheated, and that if she didn’t have little children she’d have kicked him out long ago.”

It all made sense to her now. The reason she had never been invited back to his place and the annoying roommate that turned out to be his wife suddenly snapped into focus.

She broke up with him, instead of doing what she should have done and ended her friendship with her best friend. Without the best friend and her toxic jealousy, she would still be with Mr. Right.

It’s clear her best friend didn’t want to see her happy. If he could hide a secret family from her for 10 months, he could certainly have forever.

The most cringe thing a guy has done to try and court you

These supposed “cringe things” are exactly why so many men and women have a hard time communicating. A man leaving his wife just to ask you out on a date is what used to be called romance.

Being called a man’s “big red tractor” isn’t cringe. It’s him pouring his heart and soul out to you. Thigh-warmed pocket tacos are a token of love if you ask any mature adult who isn’t thinking only about themselves.

Call these cringe if you want, and sure some might be, but don’t you dare tell me that all of these are cringe. Asking you to sign an Instagram photo for his wall is the guy at the gym’s attempt to break the ice.

• Recently had a guy interrupt a different guy asking me out. I said no to them both because one was 20 years older than me and one smelled…quite bad.
• Broke up with his wife just to take me on a date. Not so much cringe but definitely out there. I said no. I spoke to him once, at work. It was a simple hello, how are you conversation.
• I had a guy send me a song that was about a big red tractor. It was a pretty standard country song about someone who really loved their big red tractor and then he messaged me that I was his big red tractor.
• Walked up to me at a bar and said “on a scale from 1 to 10 you are a 1…” and then abruptly walked away without saying anything more. His friend came over 5 min later and said “sorry. The line is on a scale from 1 to 10 you are a 9 and I’m the 1 you need. But he was really nervous”
• he took me out to a really nice fondue restaurant, but then said, I know you like tacos, and they don’t have those here so… And then proceeded to pull out baggies of flour tortillas, cheese, and other assorted taco fixings out of his pocket. He was really proud of himself. Everything was all warm from his thighs and I didn’t know what to do so I just ate his pocket tacos.
• Guy from my gym heard the receptionist say my name when my membership card wouldn’t scan. Found my Instagram that night, then printed out one of my photos and brought it to the gym to ask me to sign it “For his wall”
• Dude showed up at my door at 6 in the morning “I came to see you”I never told him where I lived.
• We exchanged numbers after a brief conversation at a bar. A couple days later we were texting & I asked him how old he was. He gave an age that was younger than i was expecting, but not to the degree that I clocked it as a red flag. Later on in the conversation I told him how old I was, then he asked if he could tell me something. I was like “uhhhh, okay” and he went on to tell me he was actually older than he said he was & when I asked him why he lied he said it was because he thought I was younger than i was.
• Went on a date with a guy who was absolutely the tall, dark, and handsome type. Absolute class act, brought me flowers for our first date, walked me to my door to make sure I got home safely and didn’t expect an invite into my home. My only gripe was he used the word “m’lady”. He was a bit older than me and I had to explain to him that such a term is often used by neck-beards. He didn’t know what a neck-beard was, so I explained it to him. He was HORRIFIED. It was the last time he ever used the word, we are now happily married.
• one time i went though the drive thru at a wendy’s. when i got to the window the guy handed me my drink, gave me a weird look, and took an oddly long time to come back with my bag of food. when i got to my friends house and took everything out, i found a post-it note with his phone number attached to my fries. i did not call
• I was at a bar with one of my girlfriends and this guy was staring at us for like half an hour. Not stealing glances; staring. He went up to go to the bathroom and my friend and I remarked on this guy’s behavior. Sure enough, he comes back from the bathroom, beelines for my friend, and asks her out a few times. She has to say no about 4 times before he finally stops asking. Then, he leans fully over her in order to ask me out instead. Shockingly, that didn’t work.
• I had this one dude who showed up to our first date wearing a full suit and carrying roses even though we were just grabbing tacos. He kept calling me his queen the whole time which made the whole thing awkward as hell.

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That’s it. Another week in the books. Keep the song of the week suggestions coming and any tales of romance you wish to share.

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