I’m from a fairly small town and I’ve been on Tinder long enough that I’ve matched and talked with a few people now that I’ve ended up finding out are friends of friends.

I’ve already had one friend come to me because a girl he was seeing saw me on there and thought I was cheating (I’m married)

It seems inevitable that an increasing amount of my social circle is going to end up finding out I’m ENM so I feel like I should “come out” to all of them to get ahead of it.

The last thing I want is one of my good friends who doesn’t know about my ENM status finding out that I’m talking to an old friend of theirs on Tinder or something and thinking the worst of me

Has anyone been in a scenario like this and was the talk as horrifically awkward as I’m expecting?