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Steven, 31 who asked to be identified only by his first name to avoid being recognized by people who know him professionallystarted seeing someone who lived in the neighborhood adjacent to his in Brooklyn right before stay-at-home orders went into effect.

For some, it may be too much too soon. Certainly, not all dating relationships that began just before the pandemic have been casualties of it. The first few weeks or months of a dating relationship are typically considered to be some of the most magical.

As the weather gets warmer and some states lift their restrictions on places such as public parks and restaurants, single people getting to know each other—carefully and at a distance, perhaps at restaurant-patio tables or on picnic blankets or at the beach—will soon become a familiar sight again.

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Earlier this month, they made their relationship official, and last week, Steven and his now-girlfriend hung out together in person for the first time since March, at a six-foot distance, in her neighborhood. Both parties have been careful about minimizing their exposure to the virus, he told me, limiting their interactions to FaceTime and attending virtual events together such as a sake-tasting webinar, in which samples were delivered to attendees ahead of time. When stay-at-home measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID went into effect earlier this spring, something weird happened to our sense of geography.

When we spoke in late May, she told me that he had plans to come visit her family and stay overnight.

The new long-distance relationship

Both indicate a pretty serious dedication to a relatively new, perhaps even still vaguely defined, relationship—and the person who suggests such drastic measures runs the risk of alarming or overwhelming their new partner. Still, others hang on to the hope of reigniting their old flames.

But over the following weeks, as social-distancing protocols set in, the texting communication between Barcelo and his Bumble friend went from a steady stream of check-ins to a slow trickle of memes and occasional jokes. The loss of physical togetherness, for one thing, can take away some of the foundational experiences that lasting relationships are built on.

This had particularly brutal consequences for people who had been enjoying the giddy, touchy-feely early stages of a romance. When the coronavirus arrived, many people involved in romances that were just starting to materialize found themselves thrown into what felt like an involuntary long-distance relationship—and then watched their promising new fling sputter and slow down, in many cases to a complete halt.

Two weeks ago, she made the three-hour drive from her home in Pennsylvania to meet his whole family.

Because he lives in a small town where few places are crowded, Laura said, they forwent any social-distancing measures at his home—but spent a large chunk of their time together outdoors. Your ability to transition it to not just be face-to-face is greater.

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Popular Latest. But plenty of those singles will still be privately nursing the heartache of having lost touch, or momentum, with a promising partner during quarantine.

The alternative, though, is no less intimidating. Not everyone has been so lucky, however.