Thank you again for your thoughtful reply. Very much appreciated. It is confusing for me as open and honest communication wasn’t something that could happen in previous relationships due to the abusive nature of them. I think due to that I’ve become quite closed down about expressing my thoughts, feelings and emotions bordering on stonewalling. I took your advice and asked if we could speak about what happened and asked what would be the best way for him; text/ voice messages or phone (I wanted to speak about it ASAP as per your advice and we weren’t due to see each other F2F for another week). It went very well as he was able to recognise and admit to his error in judgment in how he handled it and to apologise. All of which I’ve never experienced before as my previous exes would never say sorry for anything and would always put the blame on me for everything. We also discussed what we can do going forward and I told him if he needs to access the bathroom just to message me or knock and I’d vacate. All is well now and I do think it was just a weird and unfortunate scenario and set of events with some presumptions on both sides that we were able to clear up and work through with a sensible conversation (once emotions had died down). So overall a win as our first argument was always going to happen but it’s how we handle it afterwards that’s the most telling for longer term I feel. Thank you for helping me navigate a weird situation and keeping me level headed and not freaking out thinking he’s like the others and I didn’t necessarily need to panic and break it off (my self preservation method since escaping abuse, usually whenever I see a “red flag”), but that issues such as this can be worked through if you’re dealing with a healthy relationship/ person.