From virtual dates to getting stuck together on a boat, WBEZCuriousCity takes a look at how the home-bound are navigating love and dating during the pandemic.
Whether you're single or in a decades-long relationship, it's likely coronavirus has had an impact on your love life. With Illinois'"stay-at-home" order and new social distancing rules in place, the pandemic has fundamentally changed how we're supposed to interact with one another, and that can include our romantic partners.
Michael said he was more nervous going into his first Quarantine Bae date than he's ever been before. She says she didn't hear from him until"he showed back up" a few weeks later. The two decided they would just"be friends." Then he disappeared again. Both times, Claire was crushed."Each of the break ups and disappearing were really intense, and I was very sad about them."
"Even though it feels very domestic to be in this tiny space and to be so close to somebody for this long ... I'm not having, like, daydreams of being with him after this.''Claire's isn't sure when she'll actually get off the boat. Currently, no ports or marinas in New Orleans are allowing people in. She hopes she'll be able to get off somewhere in Florida, but doesn't know how she'll get back to New Orleans from there.
"It kind of happens in cycles, and each time I learn a little bit more or unlearn a little more and I can manage it better," he said."I feel like we're getting healthier each time this happens and we're both very open and we talk about all of our feelings."These cycles of being together, then apart continued until the week Governor Pritzker announced Illinois'"stay-at-home" order.
Drake said this extended separation has forced him to really think about his feelings for his girlfriend and what their relationship means to him. "I'm not saying we're going to go all the way back to Jane Austen when you wrote each other like 12 letters and then you're like 'cool, we've had one dance and we're in love.' I don't want that," Max says."But I do think that communication of [one's] needs and wants in dating is going to change."
"And that's information I'm happy to give people, because if it means they're staying inside, great — that's my public service. I think people are trying non-traditional approaches to dating. And people are really open to things that they might not have been [before social distancing]."The backstory:
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