I had sex once this week and it reminded me why I’m single

This week’s diarist wants a relationship but it’s not going to plan (Picture: Myles Goode)

Welcome to How I Do It, the series in which we give you a seven-day sneak peek into the sex life of a stranger.

This week we hear from Meredith*, 27, a straight woman who works in marketing and has been single for two-and-a-half years, after breaking up with her last boyfriend because he cheated on a night out.

‘We’d been together for a year and never had any worries until he messaged me and told me what he’d done,’ Meredith tells Metro. ‘It completely knocked my confidence, but still, I knew it was time to break up.’

She adds that she enjoyed being single at first, but now she sees friends...