I’d just got in the bath when my phone buzzed on the window sill. It was, alas, out of reach. But I had a sneaking suspicion of who the message was from.
I got up and leaned across to my device, bath suds and water dripping all over the floor. With wet fingers, I swiped up to see the WhatsApp and instantly wished I’d stayed in the bath.
“Send pics,” read the message from the guy I barely knew.
Until this moment, things had been going so well. So well, in fact, that I was deeply suspicious.
Sending nudes to a near-stranger in the early stages of dating is a boundary for me. That might not be the case for everyone, but in my case, it’s not something I do unless I’m sleeping with the person. But at this point, I hadn’t even gone on a first date with this guy yet. We’d simply kissed on a night out with friends and started texting each other. Read more…
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