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Met up on Coffee Meets Bagel. Not the first girl I've dated on this app, but she was very fun and we had similar professional interests so it was easy to talk to her. She invited me over on our first date, but we didn't have sex -- we just cuddled and slept in the same bed. The next morning -- we had sex.

I've been talking to her for two weeks now, and we've been enjoying each other's company and spoiling each other with doing stuff for each other. We finally had the **define the relationship** over the course of the last two nights, and she revealed to me that her heart belongs to someone else who lives across the country.

She broke up with him when she moved here for graduate school because he was addicted to marijuana, is living off his parents and not going to college or has a job, and long-distance phone calls were not enough for her to feel a meaningful connection. However, she has been with him for around a year and they were talking about marriage before she moved to graduate school. She will be going back to visit her family during winter break, and will see him and figure things out.

Until then, there's me. She doesn't want to drag me along or lead me on -- and I understand that. I've been through many rodeos now, and recently my ex-girlfriend broke up with me too because of long-distance (also half-way across the country), and I feel like it's nice talking to my date because we have that shared experience. I also do enjoy spoiling her by buying her gifts, visiting her (she's about two hours by commute), and complimenting her in front of her friends -- just in general making her feel appreciated.

My friends are all warning me that I'm going to get hurt -- and I think they're right. Yet, I just can't seem to stop seeing her. We're definitely not serious, but I honestly am looking for someone to take care of and be taken care of. We're both kind of using each other as bandaids, but I don't know if I should rip it off first or just continue until she gets back together with him.
<bot>: My date loves her ex-boyfriend, I just got out of a serious relationship, and we're using each other as bandaids. When is it appropriate to stop, or should I just keep going along with it?