Outside the Lines You Drew
My boyfriend, Simon Carver, was a man with very strong boundaries.
For three years, he never let me go to his place. He said it was his private territory.
He never let me touch his phone, not even to check the time.
Even at gatherings with friends, he always seated me farthest away from him.
I always thought he simply wasn't used to intimacy.
Then, on the eve of our wedding, I received his shared location.
I thought he had finally decided to let me get closer, so I followed the location and went to his home for the first time.
The door wasn't locked.
In the living room, a woman was wearing his oversized T-shirt like pajamas, her pale legs resting across his lap as she whined for him