When Marnie* first started going out with her boyfriend in sixth form, it felt like a normal relationship between two 16 year olds. They’d been friends before they started dating; “I’d liked him for a while, so it was really exciting to think he liked me too,” she says.
As you might expect from a boy in the throes of first love, he wanted to spend all his time with Marnie. They didn’t go out much, but he’d come over to her house every night after school, and she was flattered by the attention. Having never been in a relationship before, she assumed this was a “good thing”.
