one-night walk-in

I work at a restaurant and everyone was laid off. On our last day of work, I hooked up with a coworker in the back office. We’re both in relationships, but neither of us is looking forward to being stuck inside with our current partner for an extended period of time. At least I’ll have one good memory from all this.

i, too, have smelled like a boys’ locker room

Day something or other of quarantine. Accidentally caught a whiff of myself while making breakfast. Put the omelette on hold to go take a shower.

having your julia roberts moment

Just two days before everything shut down in my country, he left me. We were seeing each other for a month and it was the best month in my life with a man. He said he needs to think about whether he wants this relationship and he’ll write when this calms down. I feel like everything has come to an end, even the world with corona virus. My anxiety and panic are kicking in. And the worst thing is I took everything on myself because I was impulsive and wanted us to see each other more. I overeat, started smoking again and hate myself more than ever. He’s gone and I’m alone in this. But this will be one of those stories in the end, a story about how one woman was dumped and learned to love herself in the time of corona virus.

entry of the gladiators

This global circus...circumstance couldn't come at a convenient time for me...for two years I distance myself for the same very reason everyone is using this opportunity to find themselves...2020 was going to be the typical resolution year for success and finally doing my own thing and up until two weeks ago I have been taking the steps towards true purpose and making money that make sense...I want to remain positive and I will but damn you really get what you ask for...I wish we all becafeful what we wish for and remain positive for the collective conscious to overcome our trying times - thank you to my friend from Montana/Atlana for sharing this platform and all those who share your experiences- stay positive

pushing over my limits

My roommate and I have been getting along pretty well by giving each other space while we work during the day and maybe watching an episode or two of something at night before going to bed or taking solo social distance walks, but her boyfriend now has to drive halfway across the country to his parent's and she wants him to stay with us for a little while. I said yes as long as it's only for a few hours so he can take a nap and then keep driving and then we have to deep clean the house when he leaves. Our walls are thin and I can hear her trying to explain to him on the phone over and over why people are taking so many precautions with this virus. Apparently he was still going out to bars this week. If I get sick because I hate confrontation and can't say no I'm gonna be so pissed.

chocolate division

I decided I wanted to make chocolate chip cookies for my family while we’re at home. My sister had her own “banana-choco” plans for what to do with what chocolate we have in our pantry. Now we’ve been strategizing and debating on and off for 24 hours how to use our remaining chocolate so all parties are happy. Still haven’t had resolution. Chocolate still in pantry.

shake it don’t fake it

I have to break up with my fiancé. I’m not someone who can hide their feelings...and I kind of came to this conclusion over the last week. Of course. I’m sick about it. But I just can’t see us together anymore. When I look at him I don’t love him. It’s absolutely wretched. Trying to drum up the energy to fake it for the foreseeable future has me feeling absolutely broken.

wake me up when _________ ends

Got back from a trip anticipating to co-quarantine with my boyfriend of 2 years, but instead he broke up with me the day after I got home. Seems fairly unremarkable, except it was also exactly one month after my father passed away from cancer. Will be self-quarantining on the 21st of every month for forever. Thanks 2020!

like daughter

I’m 35, single and college educated. I live at home with my mother in what is her childhood home. She told my siblings don’t come see her, she’s fine. It’s a little depressing and worrisome how happy and content we are going thru this whole ordeal together.

like mother,

My parents had a horrible, disgusting, earth-shattering divorce. The kind they make movies about. My boyfriend and I have been together for over two years, this guy is literally a perfect angel and this relationship is what dreams are made of. I am currently stuck with my mother during this quarantine and as the days go by she keeps making up more stuff about my boyfriend to convince herself he is just like my father and I will end up just like her. This mother-daughter relationship is what nightmares are made of. I hate it here.

for the birds

My boyfriend broke up with me due to the alleged stress coronavirus has caused him on Monday (but maybe he just decided he didnt like me anymore?!). We didn't get to quarantine together, which sounded pretty fun, now I am alone at my parents house heartbroken :*( All he does on instagram now is post pictures of birds and texts my friends to let them know hes single

matching set

His: After many misadventures in recently single life in NYC, just met someone amazing. Had been taking it casually, but both of us had independent plans in Miami over the past weekend, so planned to meet up for a beach day. Friends cancelled, so instead we’ve just spent a week together in Florida seeing each other’s family instead. Now I’m flying to Minnesota (instead of New York) and quarantining with her parents. Can only expect to end corona season engaged and expecting a coronial at this rate. 



Hers: We met in January. He was playful and fun. I was doing the NYC dating thing – not exactly intentionally – dating two people at once. I wavered back and forth until one weekend, we spent 36 hours together, and that was that. (Well, maybe not that simple. I was clunky and messy for a day trying to sort it out. But alas, we made it to the other side. It was me and him, ready for some regular dating. Or so we thought.) I had planned a trip to Florida, and invited him to join for part of it, figuring he could visit his dad who lives there while also meeting my friends in the area. A one-day overlap turned into a week-long trip. We felt it would be irresponsible to return to New York so went from Florida to Minnesota, where I grew up, and we could social distance from the world… in my parents’ house. Two months in, meeting the parents, indefinitely living together. Let’s hope this works out.

porn-tine 2020

I kicked my shitty ex out the week before we started isolating. I had a friend begin to stay, as I didn’t want to be alone- not just the whole “I can’t imagine subjecting myself to loneliness”, but more so, I’m worried my ex will try to come over (yes, it’s happened). Well, it’s truly an interesting time to have a “friend you’re just fucking” over for days of co-solitude. He’s helped me get my house back in order after the ex, he helps me cook and clean (eats vegetables unlike the ex,) fucks real real good, and is super funny. I keep making the joke “ ‘I fell in love during quarantine 2020’ will either be a self shot porn or a short story before the end of this.” Day by day, I think I’m onto something... I mean, I am a writer and I do enjoy shooting videos of myself.
Maybe it’ll be both. Best wishes to all <3

silver linings new cook

So.....for the last week my husband has seen what an 11 hour solo caring day looks like with a 7 month old. Before COVID he used to leave at 8am and come in at 7pm and wonder why dinner wasn’t completely ready - he never said it but I knew he was thinking it, now he offers to cook. There is a silver lining to all this!

my parents are trying to kill

I moved home for grad school never expecting I would have to be stuck with them through coronavirus. I asked my dad yesterday how long he thinks he should was his hands for, he replied “happy birthday.” I added “twice.”

gut punch love

I met a guy on Tinder almost a year ago when I was living in a large mansion alone owned by a millionaire hoarder. His apartment had been robbed a few days before we hung out, so I offered him a place to stay despite him being a complete stranger. After a very strange 2 months of rarely sleeping, being friends with benefits, and riding the motorcycle on acid, he eventually wound up in jail. He got out, and we are now doing quarantine together.

Still just friends with benefits, basically living together again, I love him dearly, I feel like we’ve been married for 10 years, and I couldn’t imagine a better person to be cooped up with.

I think he likes having me around as a companion and enjoys cooking for me but doesn’t love me. Dealing with the polarity of being so happy to be with someone, and heart broken over them not feeling as deeply has been a punch in gut.

inside outside, getting on my badside

Honestly, I have been waffling on whether to end my many-years-long relationship for a LONG time, and nothing has offered such clarity that it’s over than being together 24/7. People are supposed to have sex when they’re cooped up together, right?

“take a bow (2008)”

Right before things got really intense (when there were no confirmed cases in my area and nobody really taking it too seriously), my boyfriend called me from a business trip and said he was coming home but had potential exposure and would need to self-quarantine. In actuality, he just needed an excuse to be MIA so that he could be unfaithful. I found out and broke up with him, and then the next day our city basically went on lockdown. I'm sad, disappointed, and feeling intensely alone in my apartment. I know I shouldn't care, but I wonder if he's quarantining with the other woman, bonding with her and building a relationship in the wake of the one he destroyed with me. I'm tired of being surrounded by his things as I work from home, but we're not speaking and there is no plan for him to come get them. Even if they were gone, this place is filled with the memory of him, and I feel utterly trapped in its prison.

(ex-factor)²

Tried to self-quarantine with my ex’s best friend because he lives near me. Made dinner, had some drinks, ended up having sex... three times. We haven’t told my ex... and decided it was best not to self-quarantine together anymore.

“mask 19”

I’m social distancing with my emotionally abusive husband. Last week, we were distancing with his family, and he was wonderful: funny, playful, considerate. We were in the car driving home yesterday, when he started getting exasperated because I needed to pee before getting lunch. Today, he yelled at me for walking out to grab a bookshelf from beside our community dumpster without consulting him. It’s only Day 1. I’ve lasted a number of years, but I might not last through this.