A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a dating experiment that went viral. Basically, 40 Days of Dating is the story of two friends who tried dating each other exclusively for 40 days in the hopes that the experience will help them overcome the problems they usually have in their romantic relationships. The guy is the archetypal commitment-phobe and the girl is a hopeless romantic jonesing for her next relationship. The underlying expectation, of course, is that the two of them will discover true love with each other. They filled out daily journal entries about their dates and started posting one entry per day in July. The last entry was posted last week.

If you find the idea of this blog intriguing, I encourage you to read about it for yourself first here. Don't continue reading this post because I'm about to talk about what happened. In other words, SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!

So, did they or didn't they?

Here's your last chance. Open up a new tab and read the blog for yourself, if you haven't already.

Still with me? Ok, that must mean that either you read their blog already or that you don't care that much and just want to know what happened. I can't blame you. I was excited to learn about the answer myself. So. They did not end up together. The girl confessed that she had fallen in love with him, and he said that he loved her too but that he would only end up breaking her heart. Too late, buddy. It's a page out of He's Just Not That Into You. It's sad for the two of them, but I actually respect them more for not forcing a fairy tale ending. It would have been easy to feign a relationship to give the fans (and the Hollywood bigwigs buying the rights to their story) what they wanted. Well, best of luck to both of them.