I have always been very shy. I can hardly open up to others. As a teenager, even though a few boys tried to approach me, I turned them down. So they called me a prude or sometimes considered me a snob. I've always been a bit afraid of intimacy. Now that I am a woman, in my mid-twenties, I know I should find more courage. I know I should dare more. But I am afraid. I am afraid of the judgement of others, of what they may think of me.

At the Uni I found my group of friends and everything went well. Then a couple of them fell in...