This is a voice memo for death sucks and money.

I am a single woman.

I'm living alone right now.

I had the misfortune of being broken up with just before we went into quarantine.

We would have been together for a year, almost.

I have been pretty steadfast in being single

and being content until now.

It felt like the second that shelter in place started,

I've gotten voraciously horny.

My sex drive has mostly gone away. I don't really feel like even thinking about sex now.

I got on to Tinder again because how else do you meet people during a quarantine if not online?

And he seems like a great guy and I do like him, but I just don't have the enthusiasm to keep doing this meaningless online dating.

I think about it a lot if I find love again what it will be like for me.

And I could really use it right now.

Thank you. it right now. Hey, everyone. It's Anna Sale, host of death, sex, and money.

And this is Nick Vanderculk.

I make the podcast love and radio.

And our two shows have been asking you about how you're coping with not having a lot of physical touch from other people right now, about your skin hunger.

Earlier this week, we heard from listeners going through really challenging times, like new parenthood or the death of a partner without touch from family or friends. But today, we're focusing on a whole other

group of people that we heard from, those of you whose romantic relationships ended during quarantine

or right before it. Like a listener, we'reing Elle, who went through a bad breakup.

A couple of minutes after New Year's.

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