Is now a bad time for love and dating? It depends on what you're looking for.
Would you touch a stranger's face when you shouldn't touch your own? Jumping into an unfamiliar bed? One night stand? No thanks!
Now is the time to maybe you meet someone online, through typing, writing, phone calls. This way, you can explore your feelings while you wait for the time for the epidemic to pass.
Online dating, sexting are on the rise. The question is what the person on the other end is like if you don't know them yet. Will it be open? Will she pretend? What will it be like in person?
Online dating is an opportunity to spend time, but there is an issue of emotional intimacy and openness. Getting to know someone and letting them see you for who you are takes a lot of work and time. For many people, it is easier to meet strangers who cannot hurt their feelings, than to open up emotionally, show vulnerability and thereby surrender to the judgment and criticism of another person. But love requires just that – openness and vulnerability.
The coronavirus can be a double-edged sword for married couples and long-term relationships. Couples will be with each other for days, weeks, and maybe they will start to communicate better, maybe they will rediscover passions, common goals that have already been lost, but that united them in the past. Sometimes it is good for a relationship to remove various distractions from everyday life, especially if the partners have become estranged due to lack of time.
Maybe because of more romance and sex, there will be more newborns in nine months. Who knows!
On the other hand, you can certain relationships and marriages end because they have been in disarray for years, without communication, sex, common paths. When such partners land in isolation and are forced to communicate again, days can turn into endless arguments and eventually lead to divorce.
Love in the time of the coronavirus is a challenge, but also an opportunity to restore a wounded relationship, an opportunity to enlarge the family. You may find someone who opens up to you through online dating and with whom you can later continue your relationship in "reality".
But take care of yourself, the web is an illusion.
