An Australian woman is warning others to "be careful who you trust", claiming a five word text the morning after a 'perfect' date ruined it all.
Alita Brydon penned an essay for website Mama Mia, in which she says she matched with "the one" on Tinder. The pair began constantly chatting, despite living two hours away from each other.
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"My Whatsapp chimed from when I woke up at 7:45am and continued until I drifted to sleep near midnight," says Brydon in the post.
"The messages we exchanged were personal, intimate, yet so mundane.
"My phone was filled with pictures of his cooking: he took me on the step by step journey of making pasta - selecting the ingredients, making the dough, working the half-falling-apart pasta maker. He took pride in his cooking and I saw it as a sign that he was a man ready to make a home."
Brydon gushes about a stream of messages that led up to the day they finally met in real life.
"I saw him confidently approaching me... Without saying a word, he laid his lips on me, laid his palm on my lower back and kissed me," she says.
"It was happening. Everything was coming together."
The pair spent the evening together, Brydon says, adding that she went home "elated".
However, the next morning, she says a new message on her phone consisting of five simple words brought everything crashing down.
"Stay away from my boyfriend."
Brydon says she was appalled and "would never peruse a man who had a partner".
"Now when I look at my phone, the other woman's face flashes at the top of my Facebook Messenger. [It's a constant] reminder of when I was fooled and that two people were deeply hurt," she says.
"Be careful who you trust."
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