Photo illustration by Mark Riechers CC0. Do the old dreams of true love and happiness ever after fit our new lives and new identities? Living in this COVID quarantine makes it especially tough for those looking for love, or at least a good date. But according to dating coach Logan Ury, there may be a silver lining to this enforced isolation β maybe even the jolt they need to break out of bad dating habits.
Author Jane Ward investigates. One of the first assumptions we make about a relationship is that it begins with sexual attraction. But what about desire without sex? Angela Chen explores the contradictions β and the possibilities β of asexuality in her new book.
Filmmaker Bara Jichova Tyson had every reason to be cynical about romance after what she saw growing up under Communist rule. But it turns out love can come along when you least expect it β including while you're filming a movie about cheating and failed relationships. So let me introduce today's producer, Angelo Bautista. Hey, Angelo. Same to you. Hey, Angelo, why did you wanna do this show about relationships? His name is Matt. We first met in college, but he got a job and I still had school, so we ended up doing the long distance thing for about four years.
In January of , we finally closed the gap. And what do you know, two months later, the entire country shuts down.
Feel free to log off early if your workload allows. Keep going. Feel free to keep working, but you could stop if you want. I mean, as difficult as any relationship can be. But for the longest time I had this idea of what finally being together would be like, and now that we're together, I've realized, wow, I really don't know very much about being in a relationship.
