After secretly dating London-born actor Joe Alwyn for several months since the pair met last year, it appears Taylor Swift is gradually becoming less private when it comes to keeping her relatively new romance under wraps.

I mean, you can't blame her reluctance to share her love with the world, given the none-stop gossip and intrusion of privacy during her relationships with former boyfriends Calvin Harris, Harry Styles and Tom Hiddleston.

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However, despite keeping a relatively low profile in recent months in public and on social media (her last show was the Super Saturday Night Concert back in March), the 27-year-old singer was spotted in her hometown of Nashville, enjoying a coffee on a balcony in Tennessee, days after the pair were seen jetting out of the UK together on a private jet.

According to E! News, the pair spent time at Taylor's mother, Andrea Swift's home, with close friends and family members for a small dinner party on Sunday evening.

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The duo also reportedly ordered a takeaway during their stay at the singer's house and invited some friends over for the evening.

'Taylor wants to keep this relationship private and has been taking measures to keep things low-key and under-the-radar,' a separate source explained to the news outlet.

News of the pair's relationship comes weeks after Taylor's BFF, Selena Gomez, seemed to give her seal of approval on Joe, suggesting T-Swizzle is happy with 'new people' during an interview on SiriusXM's The Morning Mash Up.

'I hang out with my new person a lot,' she joked, referencing The Weeknd.

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'Honestly if my friends are happy, that makes me happy. That's all I care about. So, I'm super stoked, too. It's been a good time,' she added.

We must admit, we kind of love Taylor's being so protective of her love.

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