As we all learn to live in isolation, couples around Britain are being forced to make tough decisions.

Actually, there are reasons why I'm quite happy that we're stuck in the house together at the moment. are Today we talked to one couple in love but separated by the virus.

I was supposed to visit Katie over in London and obviously that's been canceled and we don't know where we're going to see

each other next. And another couple who decided to part ways but have been forced

to isolate together. I'm a herbal tea-loving vegetarian and he's a pot noodle loving carnivore.

This is stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manveen Rana. Today, love and living in the Welsh borders and self isolating quite happily for the meantime.

Hi my name's Helen I'm-isilating with my ex-husband in mid Wales.

The universe works in strange ways, doesn't it?

Helen and Kenny were together for over 10 years,

and for them, the coronavirus couldn't have come at a more peculiar time.

Slap Bang in the middle of their divorce.

So, coronavirus has landed at exactly the same time as we were getting our act together and working at what we were going to be doing for the future. So I was working in London a lot and because we've got cats and I was planning to come

back and live more in Wales and commute a little bit more while Helen moved

out to another lovely little property in the Welsh hills. The timing of course screwed all that up.

Because of coronavirus they're living in the same house but we spoke to them separately.

Dr Jenny Harris, deputy Chief Medical Officer, advised couples that to fight coronavirus they had to decide to either be together or be a part.

There can be no jumping between houses, but when the coronavirus outbreak began, Helen wasn't even in the country.

I flew back early from a trip to the US, so this was going to be my year of traveling, ironically. I managed to achieve a dream of visiting NASA in Houston before I came back early from my trip. And then things

started obviously getting a little bit concerning in terms of the flights being cancelled and obviously trying to take the best advice as well about health and to be respectful to everybody else as well as keeping ourselves safe.

And so I made the decision to fly home

earlier than planned. I grabbed her from Heathrual and at the back of my mind was

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