Oh my Lordy Lou listeners, is it time already for another episode of the Love Life podcast?

Well according to my watch it is, I am your host Stephen Hussie and today we are talking about the very future of Love itself.

It's no secret that we have been ushered in kicking and screaming into a new decade where the scourge of COVID-19 has changed the way we're thinking currently about work, about family, about friendship.

And of course about our romantic lives and lots of people are asking the question, what is this going to mean for me meeting someone and what risks can and should I take and how should I justify them and what kind of conversations am I going to have with a potential new partner and how is this going to change the future of monogamy or casual dating.

And so I'm going to jump to a clip of Matt talking on these big meaty issues. Before I do just tiny bits of housekeeping, you can of course subscribe to the podcast if you don't already.

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So recently I was asked to do an interview where I was part of a panel with an anthropologist, an epidemiologist and then there was I, the love of aologist.

We were there to talk about the impact that all of this is going to have not just on dating and love now but on the future of dating.

The epidemiologist was asked what constitutes safe when we're out there dating right now and her answer's amounted to, there's no way to know that you're safe if you were to meet someone in person right now and that's going to be the case until we have a vaccine.

So on behalf of single people everywhere I volunteered the question, are you talking about us being celibate until there's a vaccine?

And she said well no you might be able to meet up with someone in person if you are able to really trust that that person hasn't been around lots of other people,

or hasn't been to any events, any gatherings, at that point maybe you might meet up with that person and be six feet apart, which then of course begs another question, which is what point do you decrease the distance from six feet to something more romantic.

We are now introduced aren't we to a different layer of complexity in dating as single people.

The complexity before was how do I discern someone's intentions? Do they want a relationship? Do they not? Are they looking for the same thing as me? Are they just looking to play around?

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