COVID-19: Chapter 4 - OPEN FOR BUSINESS

I’m sorry to hear that, cuse. Fuck (too soon or not soon enough?).

Are you in any online circles where you might make friends and meet potential partners? Screening process might be a little weird in current circumstances, but it’s okay to take a whole bunch of time screening whether to meet in person the same way a person might take a while to decide whether to kiss someone or more. That’s not a new obstacle. Just a new place to encounter it.

For dating, my concern would be whether the attraction would transfer once we are IRL, but again that’s not a new obstacle. Just a new place to encounter it. And you can have an outrageous amount of fun online only. Most won’t lead to anything long term, but neither would dating primarily in person (unless you’re co dependent and rush into enmeshment lol).

Not the same for me as I have an SO and am not interested in an open relationship or poly, but as far as friends go, I have been very fulfilled strengthening the connections with my current friends via phone/internet, as well as finding two or three new good friends from Unstuck I probably would not have gotten close to if COVID hadn’t made them into as big of a hermit as me :grinning:

You might also enjoy recent episodes of the Savage Love podcast, a long-running relationship column/podcast where in recent episodes everyone is talking about the challenges of dating and sex in the COVID era.

Perhaps time to revive the dating thread???

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