My boyfriend always made me delete every photo of us I shared online — then one day, I received a note that said, “I think you deserve to know who you’re really dating.”

pressed against mine. I’d posted it for seven minutes before he made me take it down.

I’d apologized for wanting to be seen.

Avery said, “You don’t have to come.”

“No,” I said.

“No?”

“He doesn’t get another room where everyone believes him first.”

Avery went quiet.

“He counted on both of us being too embarrassed to stand in the same room,” I said. “I’m done continue reading …