My name is Will DeFries and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast. You are here for the Sunday Blues.

If you don't already know by now, my favorite romantic comedy is You've Got Mail.

Whether it's because I love the 90s nostalgia or just the performances of Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and even Dave Chappelle,

I'm not really sure why I've gravitated to this more than other movies.

Sleep is in Seattle, I think is overall a better movie, but something about You've Got Mail just takes me.

Most of all, I think it's the idea of being able to find love anywhere.

My biggest source of anxiety through most of my 20s wasn't money or jobs,

but finding someone that I'd want to spend the rest of my life with.

And I don't think I was really alone in that situation.

Dating is stressful, time consuming, and arduous.

It's difficult enough as it is, and then COVID-19 entered the situation.

Luckily for me, I was already planning on getting married so I didn't have to worry about dating in that scenario.

But I started to think to myself, what are people doing in this scenario, this quarantine, this pandemic, in order to date?

You can't just sit alone at home with no human contact this entire time, especially when you're single, and you're young, and you're used to going out.

I had a lot of difficulties in dating, I found myself getting on dating apps, but living and growing up in a small town,

the dating apps weren't really a big pool to choose from.

I kind of got stuck in a lot of extended text conversations that really led to nothing.

And as you know, I found my wife on Twitter when we essentially were quarantining ourselves.

If you haven't already listened to InScarries Met Sally, it was a very early episode on this podcast,

and an article that I wrote for Man Repel, probably four years ago.

But, at the end of the day, I met Sally through Twitter, and from there, our relationship blossomed into something that we just never really experienced.

Today, I'm going to read stories from five people who have found someone in the midst of the pandemic while quarantining.

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