Ghosting, gaslighting and cheating can feel par for the course in today’s dating landscape. Now groups of women are joining up online to create an early warning system
When Allie learned that her partner of four years had been cheating on her with at least nine other women, using dating apps and telling mutual acquaintances that they were in an open relationship, the 28-year-old felt her sense of reality “implode”.
They were also living together, and around the same time she found antiviral medication for herpes at home. “It turned out he’d had it for a couple of years. It’s a common infection so for me that’s not the issue – it was the deceit. He took no responsibility for preventing or mitigating it.”
