The post does not say that they actually had a unusually direct and honest relationship, but merely that OCB perceived things that way at the time: ‘We had what I perceived as a preexisting friendship where we were experimenting with being unusually direct and honest (/“edgy”)’
I suppose so—without hearing the other side we can’t know for sure. He does say there was “oversharing from both sides”, though.
The post does not say that they actually had a unusually direct and honest relationship, but merely that OCB perceived things that way at the time:
‘We had what I perceived as a preexisting friendship where we were experimenting with being unusually direct and honest (/“edgy”)’
I suppose so—without hearing the other side we can’t know for sure. He does say there was “oversharing from both sides”, though.