For those who don’t live with their SO, how is the pandemic affecting your relationship?

My partner and I both live alone, about a 5 minute drive apart. We've been together a little under a year, so I feel like we're in a sweet spot for something like this--our relationship is really wonderful and stable, but our lives aren't ridiculously intertwined, so being together is amazing but being apart won't kill us.

We're both fortunate enough to be working full time from home during this. The only interaction we have with other humans is grocery trips, which we take together, go as infrequently as possible, mask up, and make quick/efficient. Beyond the rare grocery trip, we aren't seeing friends, family, colleagues, or going out.

Because we otherwise aren't interacting with other humans, we have been seeing one another. He stays here at my place maybe ~3 nights a week, and I'll occasionally go to his (I have cats and the comfier bed, so my place usually wins out).

Honestly, it has been keeping me sane and I'm so grateful to have him. I'm confident we'd be fine relationship-wise if we couldn't physically be together--we're both quite independent, but also very committed and put effort into connecting with one another. But stress- (and possibly depression-) wise, I think I'd be through the roof. Being together physically has been so comforting, and really helps ease the emotional toll this whole thing is taking. My partner always makes me feel safe and happy (even before all this!); I genuinely love being around him.

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