For those who aren’t quarantining with their SO right now, how has COVID impacted your relationship?

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Feel disconnected, at times bored but don’t know if that’s bored or the relationship or due to what’s happening in the world, worried that we may not spark enough excitement in each other to do fun things while distant or if we’re just burned out from working crazy hours at home

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I have never been more single.

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More misunderstandings. Had a big one the other day and he’s been cold instead of discussing it 😕

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This environment unfortunately does make avoidance a lot easier...

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He comes over every weekend. Little impact

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We were already doing cross-country long distance, more than anything the uncertainty in not knowing when we’ll next get to see each other sucks

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There’s also a Modern Love podcast called “Questions That Lead to Love” or something similar that was actually really fun to do together. Feel like it just prompted a lot of fun childhood stories/other conversations

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My SO is a first responder, so we haven’t been able to spend much quality time together in about 2 months now. We make the most of Facetime and he’ll drive by about 2x per week to chat w me on the front steps...6 feet apart of course! But I always manage to hug him (for a bit longer than he is comfortable with ☺️) kiss him on the cheek with my mask on lol

It’s honestly been great for us both. We’re both dreading the day we go back to actually having to work in offices

Staying strong. We had to stay apart for 1.5 months since my SO’s dad is the chief pathologist for our hospital network, and we wanted to minimize infection risk at the outset. SO is a medical student, so they keep busy during the week, and now we see each other every weekend. We did four years of long distance, so this is a piece of cake.

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