A month ago, I went on my first official date. I had met Ken* on Tinder and despite my initial reservation about meeting potential partners online, we hit it off almost instantly. After a few weeks of chatting and getting bored with the mundane mornings and goodnights, we met up at a local coffee shop.

He was charismatic and loved bouldering like me, his dad jokes actually made me laugh and we even worked in the same field – accounting. After the date, I tried to sneak in a quick goodbye kiss but Ken seemed hesitant to kiss me, only for him to point out that his hesitancy was due to a mouth sore he claimed came from eating something sour. He ended up kissing me anyway.