Asking my partner to move out saved our relationship

Walking into my bedroom, I was horrified. My shoe collection was stuffed behind a cupboard, and in its place were my  boyfriend’s brogues and trainers. Steve and I had been living together for a month, but it wasn’t going well.

I met Steve in January 2017 at a work event. He was charismatic and good-looking, and we started dating that April. I’d lived alone in a small one-bed flat that I’d rented for eight years, while he was in a houseshare in Greenwich following