Common Relationship Advice That Doesn’t Make Sense

L M du Preez
Nov 3 · 8 min read

I’ve been with my partner for 13 years. We met when we were both nineteen years old, in person, mildly intoxicated, at a bar. He was a complete stranger to me — he wasn’t a friend of a friend, I hadn’t seen him at school or during extra-curricular events and I hadn’t been exposed to his social media persona. At the time there was no Tinder, no Instagram, and Facebook was barely a thing. We met the…

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L M du Preez

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L.M. is an award-winning indie author from Vancouver, Canada. Find her books on Kindle, Kobo, iBooks and Wattpad.

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