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Today, Explained

Cupid-19

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from dating, hooking up, or tying the knot. In fact, lockdown has been helping people get down. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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It's to explain, I'm Sean Ramos-Vroom, and over the past six months now of everyone being in

1:09.3

some state of quarantine or lockdown, we've talked a lot about how that's affecting our society,

1:16.2

our economy, our cities, our buildings, our relationships, our families, our psychies. But we haven't

1:24.4

talked about one essential component, and that is our love lives. But today, explained reporter

1:32.8

producer Halima Shah has been focused on just that thing for the past few weeks. Halima, what have

1:38.9

you discovered? Well, COVID-19 has basically made an already awkward gain more awkward,

1:45.6

and there is a lot of sadness when it comes to relationships during the pandemic. For example,

1:51.4

a lot of people who might have been in the early stages of a relationship are finding that it's

1:57.2

fizzling out, and a lot of people who were considering divorce or maybe splitting up are basically

2:03.8

having to cohabit with the people they were planning on leaving. That's rough. But, and there's

2:10.2

a big but here. Oh, good. Yeah, there's a silver lining. I was about to cry. We don't want people

2:16.9

to cry anymore. We make them cry plenty on this show. And the silver lining in this case is that

2:22.1

some people are finding that the pandemic and the lockdown is helping them advance their relationships.

2:28.6

Cool. So are we going to hear from some couples or what? We are going to hear from some couples.

2:32.8

We're going to hear from young people living in cities who are in their 20s and 30s. And we're

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