All my ideas surrounding love, sex, and romance were destroyed pretty early on. The first boy who told me he loved me did so over instant messenger, and although that wasn’t overly romantic, I could handle it. We were living in a world of evolving technology, after all. What I couldn’t get past was that he’d told a girl at a different school that he loved her too — the day after he told me. I also couldn’t get over when immediately after our first kiss, he punched my boobs because he said they looked like “punching bags” and he “liked it.”