Sometimes, in mundane moments together, I look at my partner and think: “You’re just a stranger off the internet, and you’re in my house. You’re doing my dishes and sleeping in my bed, and I met you thanks to some pixels on my phone.” When you think about it too much, it becomes dizzyingly weird.
Of course, meeting someone online or on a dating app is now quite common. But my partner and I did meet online, rather than “matching” online, because we were both using a lesser-known app called Lex.
Lex is a “text-centred