![]() ![]() We operated in a prolonged low-battery mode as we waited to return to our "normal" lives outside of lockdown. The people he and I were in those first four months of our relationship were like photocopies of photocopies. My partner's life as a musician pre-COVID involved a lot of late nights, big crowds, and airport lounge toasties.Īll of that vanished for him in March of 2020 and by the time he and I met he was working from home for the COVID hotline, waiting patiently for live music to return (which, we now know, would take a lot longer than initially anticipated). I'd spend all of my money, before arriving home with a story about how I'd driven a 50cc scooter down a Mexican freeway, and found myself soaked by a stream of urine released inexplicably from the back of a tour bus. I'd been properly single for two years, and would periodically disappear overseas for a few months. In a short paragraph, email us your pitch: more Love during a pandemicīefore the pandemic (AKA The Panny D™), I often described myself as having a very full life, which is to say I worked three jobs, had a wide circle of friends and read a lot of Elizabeth Gilbert. ![]() Chances are there's others facing the same highs, lows and life experiences. Now, almost a year has passed, and we're adjusting to the realities of who each of us is outside of our daily lockdown walks in search of Fitzroy's juiciest sandwich.Īs our lives unfurl to meet their former outlines, those of us who fell in love during lockdown are left wondering if our relationships would have progressed at the same rate, or even continued at all, had we not spent so much time together when we had absolutely nothing else to do.ĪBC Everyday's Perspectives is all about giving you a chance to share what you're going through. Two weeks later, we were locked down together for the better part of four months - or 103 days, to be exact. We drank orange wine and joked about ordering a whole fish as a snack and, at the end of the night, we shared a kiss against the bar's doorway (which, I'm sure was not at all annoying for the staff members who were just trying to close up). In May of 2021 (after Tiger King, but before the Delta wave) I went on a date with a musician who had the longest eyelashes I'd ever seen. ![]()
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