'We haven’t met each other’s friends ... or done many of the other things couples do during and after a year of dating.'
"We haven’t met each other’s friends ... or done many of the other things couples do during and after a year of dating.""Neither of us knows anything about the other outside of the bubble we’ve created together."My eyebrows shot up as I looked dubiously at the even-tempered, middle-aged man I’d been dating for 13 months. In response to my disbelief, he showed me. And, well, it wasn’t a half-bad cartwheel.
We spent weeks walking back and forth on a bike path maintaining the 6-foot distance recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Eventually we graduated to sitting 6 feet apart in my backyard and talking over glasses of wine. But here’s the catch: It all happened in a bubble. To protect ourselves and our children from COVID-19, we’ve kept the rest of the world out.
Relationships are made of two parts — an interior part and an exterior. The interior part is the two people at the heart of the relationship. It’s their values and humor. It’s their chemistry. It’s them — in sweatpants on the couch with their armor ripped off while they enjoy spending time together. That means our pandemic relationship is about to meet the real world. From what I remember about the real world, it’s loud and complicated and often cruel without any rhyme or reason .
I don’t know how we move forward. I don’t know what the answer is. I suspect this is an instance where there is no answer. We just dive in. We enter the real world. ... We live a post-pandemic life and see if our pandemic relationship can withstand it.
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