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How You Can Keep Dating Despite Coronavirus
Whether you’re freshly single or you’ve been dating a while, you might think romance needs to be paused right now. But does it really?
It’s all we hear these days: Keep your distance. Social distancing. Stay away from public gatherings. Stay home.
But staying home and keeping your distance doesn’t exactly go hand-in-hand with dating, does it? Dating requires two people to spend time together. Sometimes in close quarters and sometimes in public places.
So it seems, at first glance, that if we need to stay away from other people to avoid getting sick, then we need to stop dating.
But that’s not the reality. In fact, the reality is this might be the best time for you to be dating. Why?
Everything is slowed WAY down
Life is essentially very slowly grinding to a halt right now. Schools are closing, people are being told to work from home, and public gatherings all over the world are being canceled. Movie theaters are capping theaters as being sold out at 50% capacity to encourage social distancing.
With everything slowing down so much, it’s a perfect time to date. Without the need to hustle from one thing to the…
