From the Boston Globe, this is Love Letters.

I'm Meredith Goldstein.

I was dating this guy.

Let's just call him Keith.

This is Taylin. She lives in New York and works in social media for Self magazine. She's 23.

I knew her back when she used to live in Boston, and I remember she fell hard for this one guy.

I kind of clung to him in a sense because we were both, you know, two black people in a very

like non-diverse environment.

So I just kind of felt like, oh wow,

I really need to get to know this person.

And when we dated, things seemed like it was a honeymoon phase.

So this honeymoon phase lasts for six months.

Tailing gets close with Keith's family.

And next thing you know, his mom became my hairstylist. So I felt like our lives

were kind of intertwining together in multiple ways.

And so begins the tangling. You meet the family. You connect to your new partner's friends on social media you even

follow their mom on Instagram things go well for Tailing and Keith until they don't the

honeymoon phase ends he says he wants a more open relationship.

So she breaks up with him. But there's just one thing.

I still had all of these connections to him via social media. I unfallowed him, but I didn't unfallow

or unfriend any of his friends or even his mother or his sister because I was like,

these people didn't do anything to me. They just

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