Love in the time of the Covid 19 pandemic

grahamg

grahamg

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Those of us maybe verging on "too late to bother" obviously are not so affected, but what about all those youngsters, or those in between, where their biological clocks are ticking so their fertility is likely to drop, what is being asked of them in this socially distanced world?

Are they to forego meeting a partner they might wish to become amourous with or marry, at the time in their lives they should be doing this?

Everyone's future is at stake, one way or another, but if you're past starting a family, you're not being asked to forfeit a potential love match are you, as they are, and for how long. :unsure::(:whistle: ?
 

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If people won't mask up & can't be bothered by distancing as it is...I highly doubt they'll be bothered with distancing themselves from someone they're in love with. Some are still planning weddings & whatnot.
 
They just have to put everything on hold, is an option.....STD's must be way down also and will continue that way for awhile, cheaters aren't cheating as much but I do wonder how the prostitutes are surviving in these times with no johns, hmmm......
 
MarciKS said:
If people won't mask up & can't be bothered by distancing as it is...I highly doubt they'll be bothered with distancing themselves from someone they're in love with. Some are still planning weddings & whatnot.
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They'll just have to do the same thing some (idiotic) doctors are suggesting - online visits.
 
If I were a teenager I wouldn't let it stop me. It's too difficult at that age to make really wise decisions.

Some older folks are not so bright either. BF is in Florida on vakay. Up here, it's over a hundred degrees so why bother? Now he'll have to quarantine for 2 weeks coming back cuz our governor made that decision after he left.

Who's laughing now?

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Sunny said:
No answer, Graham, but I'm sure someone will come up with a movie about it before too long.
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Here is an even bigger question.
We're told its necessary to tell young people, or people who might want to have children, not to meet members of the opposite sex and get amorous with them for months on end, (potentially forming lifelong partnerships), because of this pandemic. Then is it okay for our government to tell the population to socially distance in order to reduce the world's population to save the planet, or any other reason?
I know this lockdown is as much in place, or at least only enforceable because most of the population is prepared to voluntarily accept the rules, and we probably won't indefinitely, but it raises all kinds of uncomfortable questions, most especially for the young, or those who want children in my view, and someone needs to find some answers.:unsure: .
 
I found this article from a reputable source, although it focuses upon existing relationships in this time of viral pandemic lockdown etc.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/how-to-keep-love-alive-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/

Quote:
".......perhaps the healthiest piece of advice for a wholesome relationship is to give up the idea that people should strive for a perfect relationship, in which one’s partner will meet all one’s needs. People should strive to have healthy relationships in which each person gets their needs met as best as they can."

“On average in the U.S. we have this idea that our romantic partner should meet our every need, and I think that that is unrealistic,” said Davila. “Romantic relationships should meet some basic core needs, but those needs that may be different depending on who you are and what relationship you’re in. We all do have needs that can get met and perhaps maybe even be better met by friends, extended family members, therapists, and other people in our lives who can really support us in different ways.”
 
This article, again from a reputable source, is maybe more in line with the OP, and thread topic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/reader-center/modern-love-coronavirus.html

Quote:
"As the coronavirus bore down on the United States, we didn’t expect that to change much. We even talked about how providing a distraction from the news might be more important than ever. We were wrong. Like many, we didn’t grasp how long the coronavirus crisis would last and how dramatically it would demand the world’s attention. (We were more concerned with giving our office plants extra water, not realizing that we would be gone for months, not weeks.) An early clue of the coming coronavirus dominance was how quickly our submissions shifted from a trickle of stories about the virus in early March to a flood by month’s end, with 78 of them even sharing the same title: “Love in the Time of Coronavirus.”

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"The inbox for Tiny Love Stories changed, too. We experienced a surge in submissions to both features that went way beyond our already strained capacity to read them all. Normally our process is first come first served, which means we’re reading essays that were submitted months earlier. But we began turning first to what had come in recently, because so much of what had come before the pandemic read like tales of yesteryear, a world where dating and romance involved strange behaviors like hugging, kissing and even sex."
 
" Love during Covid 19 "
I will admit....finding love during the pandemic....is a great challenge, and is hard.
But.....using this online time.....is providing time to really get to know each other.....bonds are getting stronger every day.
This love was found before this world's roadblock......the distance of 3500 klm, one doesn't just walk out the door and drive.....takes a lot of planning.
So, waiting patiently, some days not so patient.....for restrictions to be lessoned, and safety to be practiced and continued, and everything going in the right direction.
 
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