What Dating With Anxiety Taught Me About Love

“I love this bit when you’ve just met someone,” a newly and blissfully coupled-up friend told me over brunch “it’s so exciting”.As she fired off another message to her Bumble conquest I marvelled at her breezy demeanour. Whilst she revelled in the giddy highs of a new relationship, my own dating life seemed a veritable circus of horrors.“How’s that guy you’re seeing?” she asked, and a familiar terror reared at the thought of my own falt