This weekend, Andrew is cleaning his flat. This is more momentous than it sounds. It’s partly a consequence of me giving him some tough love, earlier in the week. His place has been gradually getting worse, since we met, and now, it looks like something you’d see on a Channel 4 documentary. There’s stuff absolutely…
I had the most incredible experience the other day. It felt almost other-worldly. I feel like superwoman. I’m a Cognitive Behavioural therapist (CBT), but two weeks ago I started some training, to learn how to do a different type of therapy – Eye Movement Desensitisation and Re-processing (EMDR). It’s a different type of therapy for trauma. I…
Since dating someone who was absolutely riddled, I’ve become a sexual health hypochondriac. Until 2016, I had mainly only slept with a handful of people, who I was in relationships with, and they had each slept with as few people as me. Plus, I was a goody-two-shoes about contraception. I was tested for STIs every…
This week, I came across something I didn’t know existed: Breakup Apps – self-help apps to guide you through a breakup. The one I stumbled across was ‘Mend‘, mentioned in this post in Jill’s Adventures in Dating. I tried to find out more about Mend, and came across ‘Breakup Boss‘ as well. It feels particularly relevant to me,…
Recently I had another False Start date, and I concluded I need a break from dating. This guy was a year younger than me, and had a job involving writing. We met on OkCupid, and arranged a date for just a few days after Rockstar-Film-Guy. He suggested we meet in Soho, about 50 metres from…
I keep writing this post and then scrapping it and starting over. This is because I keep completely changing my mind about what I think. The last thing with Whippersnapper was that I told him I still loved him. He said he felt the same but still couldn’t be with anyone because of his body…
Whippersnapper and I tentatively confessed our love for each other, but agreed we still couldn’t do anything about it, because of his body image problems. I did wonder when I went to bed that night, if I’d get a drunk 3am text from him. At 2:59am, I got this message: “See tonight is a classic…
“The best way to get over someone is to get under someone.” In the past, this has worked for me. When I’m trying to get over heartbreak, it’s when I finally start liking someone else, the breakup-spell loses its grip. I think I fall in love too easily, but also have a slight tendency to…
This is one of the most difficult breakups I’ve had. I’m not even sure it counts, as we never said he was my boyfriend, but wow. I feel like my soul has been having a migraine ever since. It’s probably my second worst breakup ever, and the Number One breakup is hard to beat, as…
(I apologise in advance for all the cunts in this story. It’s just hard to tell it without quoting the source directly). After our breakup, and all the confusing messages from Whippersnapper, I was only certain of two things I was worried about him I was still bananas about him I was worried because he’d…
Dater Analysis 