Confession Of A Recent Discovery

I never would have imagined that I'd end up here. As a grad student in psychology, I've been studying human behavior for years but it wasn't until recently that I admitted to myself that I am into DDLG. It feels like something inside me shifted after the first time it happened... I met someone at a conference and we got talking about our backgrounds. We shared an interest in old books and suddenly, without any real reason or context, we started acting out scenes from classic literature, him as the stern professor and me as his eager pupil who gets into trouble for reading during class. It was exhilarating but also strange... I left that night feeling confused and a little scared of how much I enjoyed it. Now weeks later, I find myself still thinking about it... wondering if there's more to explore. It’s hard because while I want to understand these feelings better, the loneliness of keeping such a secret is suffocating.