My summer of WhatsApp love: just a different kind of true romance | Brigid Delaney's diary

In the glow of your phone screen you can be vulnerable, tender and show your best side in a way you can't on an early date

Not so many years ago I had a summer romance that was different from other summer romances.

We met at a party, then he returned overseas and we spent several months locked in a dopamine-frenzied storm of messages. Sometimes hundreds a day, not respecting timezones or the real-life fragility of our connection.