I Didn’t Sign Up for This Sh*t

Why are my dates treating me as their therapist?

Liz Sinclair
6 min readSep 4, 2022

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I am not sure how it happened but I have somehow become my boyfriend’s therapist and, to be perfectly honest, I hate it. When we started dating, I was super excited. He is tall, educated and ridiculously cute. Plus I am a sucker for redheads and his full head of red hair and freckles make me swoon. He’s a triathlete so his body is…

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Liz Sinclair

Ordinary, middle-aged, university educated, working mother of three in a long-term loving marriage. Oh, and also non monogamous.