How many people have gone through breakups (or have known others) during Covid?? I feel like it’s one after another myself included...

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Shockingly, SO MANY. Long term ones too. My bf and I are in the process of breaking up as well.

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A lot of the ones I know of are because their SO couldnt see a future with them... my bf and I had a lot of underlying issues that I guess only came to light as we spent 24/7 together.

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Same here. It extra sucks due to Covid. I think the pressures of life have doubled and many relationships aren’t able to adapt to this as it just crept up on us

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Me too can we form a support group

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Just curious. Why so many break ups in covid?

I wonder when dating you feel the option to leave is there more easily. When married it's also challenging but bc we are married we know we want to make it work.

Yep. I wanted to adapt and work through it but he didn’t want to. Sad

We haven’t broken up but our relationship is under a lot of stress and I can understand why people do. With jobs under pressure, both of us thinking about grad school, and having no idea what the future holds, it just brings up a lot of questions that normally aren’t brought up until much later in the relationship. Plus we’re trapped at home, trying to appease both our families, and individually we each get very stressed and sometimes sad. It’s not the relationship’s fault, but it all certainly makes the relationship a lot less fun.

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