Social distancing isnt easy but it does give you an opportunity to learn more about your partner than ever before. Here couples share how their relationship has developed even more during this time.
couple dancing in kitchen
Two weeks before the shutdown started in Boston my boyfriend and I moved in together. After a year of dating we were ready for the next step and fell in love with a duplex apartment in the historic South End. Typically he travels Monday through Thursday for work so I flew my mom in to help me unpack nervous wed be living in boxes. Before quarantining started we really only had the weekends together—and we had to cram as much as we could into those precious three days.
As we talked about March we mapped out the days wed go to Home Depot when wed donate our unused items to Goodwill and excitedly discussed our housewarming party. We even dropped off art to be framed. We could have never predicted that a pandemic was looming—and wed soon have more time than we realized to set up our home together.
We are coming up on 70 days under the same roof and just about zero social interaction with other humans. Whats surprised us the most is just how well our crash course in cohabitating has gone. I work downstairs in my office while he has taken over our dining room table for his desk. We take breaks to snuggle watch TikTok play ping-pong go for walks with masks and all and try our best to go to bed at the same time. Ive never had any doubts about our relationship in the one-and-a-half years weve been together but if anything this experience has made me even more confident in our connection. We respect and love another take the space we need and well we laugh constantly. More than anything we enjoy one anothers company even if its sitting in silence reading or drinking champagne on our patio.
Im excited for the world to open up again—but Im thankful for this experience thats provided an unexpected silver lining. If we can make it through this we can tackle anything.
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