it gets better
My partner of six years broke up with me right before lockdown. Luckily I was still able to kick him out of my apartment so I could be completely miserable and alone. In order to keep some of my sanity I decided to try exercising once a week and very slowly improve my diet. Really tiny baby steps that carried me through the grief and sadness. Fast forward 5 months and I went to see him for whatever stupid reason that my mind conjured up. He hadn't shaved, his eyes looked tired. Today I look in the mirror and she smiles back at me with confidence. Hang in there y'all it does get better.
TGIT
I’ve been working my way through Grey’s Anatomy. I would watch it when my boyfriend was working/busy. He hated it. Too ridiculous. Occasionally I would catch him listening in. He’d scoff. Too ridiculous. Then it became apparent he knew the main character’s names. Then one night he requested we put it on. Now he stays up super late without me to binge it and is more invested in Alex Karev’s future than I am….
allergic to dating
on the last date i went on before quarantine i went into anaphylactic shock over an unknown food allergy. because im not normal, i asked my date to call me an uber to the hospital instead of the ambulance because i didn’t want to be dramatic—(i.e. have to be carried away on a stretcher outside a bar). Even though i could barely breathe the security guard wouldn’t let me take a glass of water outside because thats the law apparently. i was also put on a pee pan for the first time in the ER. 2020 kinda just went downhill from there
NSFW
My friend matched with a guy on hinge, def her type - tall, muscular and a semi pro rugby player. They texted back and forth, eventually sexted and even had phone sex. She thought it could progress into something more, he lived fairly close by and they managed one phone call without it turning steamy. One evening she received an unsolicited video of him playing with himself which lead to her just watching him on facetime wanking whilst awkwardly sitting there watching in her bra. She never heard from him again... UNTIL she saw him on the news, a BBC journalist just casually sitting around the news desk in an ill fitting suit, discussing the impacts of Covid-19. Her Whatsapp media is filled with pictures of his dick.
submitted 5/16/2020
I had a crush on my best guy friend throughout high school. When we were 18, I asked if he wanted to be more than friends, but he turned me down because he was moving away for school. Fast-forward almost 10 years, and I match with him on Bumble. We start talking. He lives 45 minutes away. I finally work up the nerve to ask him to hang out, and he agrees. Then quarantine hits. I'm immunocompromised and he's still working. We've been texting, video-calling, and sexting for weeks now, but all I want is to see him in person. I can't help but think that this is either the most adorable love story or a perfect tragedy, and either way, I just want to know how it's going to end.
good vibes
In the before times I used to take home rechargeable batteries from work, bring it back, and swap out another one. I was laid off in May though and it was a huge loss. BUT using the last remaining charge of a stolen battery for my vibrator was cleansing for my soul.
txt me
I’ve been going to school with this guy for three years now. He’s hot, nice, and a total flirt. We absolutely have a connection, to the point that mutual friends have commented on it and one even went so far as to semi-drunkenly tell us that “we’d make beautiful children together” to our faces. Which is great except that he has a girlfriend of 5 years and he clearly has no intention of breakup with her. So after that last comment, I’ve kept my distance. I feel worthy of being someone’s first choice, not side piece. Anyway, now that we’re 3000 miles apart since quarantine and getting our Zoom U degrees, he’s found excuses to text or Snapchat. Since I’m lonely and bored, I respond. I’ll stop once we’re back at school in person. I’m tired of being the (internally) sad, lonely, single one in my friend group. So I’ve also been using quarantine times to reflect and be better to myself. I want to be with someone who makes my heart joyful and who I can have a meaningful, authentic, and honest connection with.
submitted may 24
I don't want to see my boyfriend when lockdown ends. We've been together 8months, 2 of these have been in lockdown in seperate houses. I wasn't prepared to move in with him (not sure I ever want to). We have a good time generally except when his young son comes to stay (I have no ties except a dog!). Anyway, we have totally different views on social distancing. He has an I dont care attitude. I am the complete opposite. Lockdown will be lifted soon and I'll have no option really but to at least see him. I can't break up with someone who has just lost their job and we're currently in midst of a pandemic. But I think I am over this. May just be the lockdown blues… Who knows…
boy bye
My narcissistic but good looking boyfriend told me lots of 'home truths'. That I was lucky to be with him, that my body looked like it had been run over by a steamroller, that women aren't funny. After 4 months of dating during lockdown, and spending secret weekends together, it's over. I thought that it was better to be with someone rather than alone during these times. Truth is it destroyed my confidence and my faith in men. Starting to feel better though and vowing never to put up with that kind of shit again.
dry spell
My boyfriend and I have been living together for nearly a year and I never really get sick of him (I know, it’s a terrible obsession of which he’s well aware) and he tolerates me (lovingly, of course). Nothing’s really wrong in our relationship but since lockdown, we have sex once a week, max. I thought being with each other all the time means we’d have more time to be naked and such, but turns out my single friends breaking lockdown rules are getting laid more than I am.
update: men are still trash
I just got stood up by two different men for FaceTime dates in the same night. I didn’t know that even in a pandemic people could still be garbage. I’m honestly more upset about the makeup I put on because it’s quarantine.
oh baby
My friend and I have been hooking up for Some Time, and we’d both been very careful about quarantining, so we decided that breaking quarantine once to hook up wouldn’t be a big deal. Well, it was the opposite of that. Fast forward 4 weeks…. SURPRISE! I’m pregnant (I’m 26). Long story short, I ended the pregnancy (my body, my choice, people!) but now he hasn’t texted me back in a WEEK? He never even asked me how I’m doing?! We’ve been friends for 10 YEARS and he’s ex-baby--daddy-ghosting-me?????? RUDE!!
go :) away :)
Honey, I love you to death and we’ve been married 30 years and I know we’re fine, but could you, for just one day, stay completely silent and not look at me at all?
FLSDFJKADSAKFJLS??? update please!
I've been furloughed from my job for the last 5 months, in this time I have spent a lot of time by myself. As a result, I have found myself getting close to my husband's best friend who lives near by. It's developed into the point of fantasizing about being intimate with him. He's also admitted to seeing me as this forbidden fruit while inebriated. I finally found the bravado to ask my husband to have a threesome with his friend and they both surprisingly agreed....it's supposed to happen this coming weekend. I think I'm catching feelings.
peloton wife guy
Breakup just before lock down. The worst time in history to be single? Met a bunch of girls online thinking we were a good match, and had a deluge of disappointments and disappearances. Had almost given up and resigned myself to the convent when Maggie hit me up. We bonded over conspiracy theories about Peloton Wife. She's unlike anyone I've ever met. She does things like house a pickle in two bites, kiss me, and then declare with a smirk, "I taste like a pickle!" On our first date she left me her sweatshirt so I could "survive a day in [her] absence," and her watch on which she used the calculator to write "8008135." She lets me get away with nothing, and constantly makes me laugh. Her accent is thick and her temper is hot. Suddenly, it is love?
rx
I'd only been a nurse for a year before COVID happened. I'm still so green but all of a sudden I'm in a war zone and every single day is a fresh nightmare. But somehow in the middle of all this I met the love of my life. I can't kiss him or touch him but on my days off we go for masked walks and sit 10 feet away from each other and just talk. When we're together is the only time that I feel safe anymore. How strange to discover romance in a time such as this.