If you were to name one memorable thing that 2020 blessed us with, besides a debilitating viral pandemic, of course, is the new meaning to the phrase “together forever”. It’s been months of alternating between ‘honey, I’m (always) home’, ‘by the way – I shrunk the kids because they were driving me fucking crazy’ and other forms of fear and loathing under seemingly endless restrictions.
When you’re in a relationship, it’s easy to lose track of how much time you spend with your partner. Throw in a lockdown like ours, and you’re spending all day, every day, with one person.
It can be emotionally taxing, even if you really love them – but that’s usually only under the best of circumstances.
Life under lockdown during a global pandemic certainly doesn’t fit that description, and in fact, it’s probably left even the most die-hard romantics reconsidering the single life.
I mean, Rapunzel did long for her one true love, but I guarantee that if you were to lock them up together for 90 days and he quickly dashed to the shops, his ‘Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair’ upon his return would be met with a swift‘not today, Satan.’
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