Online dating during quarantine is rough

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part column on dating during a pandemic.

Jill has been quarantined in her small apartment in a Cleveland suburb for two weeks.

She was in close contact with someone who contracted COVID-19 and, under doctor’s orders, was required to stay away from others for 14 days.

“The problem is, I had just met this guy,” Jill said. “Well, kind of.”

“We hadn’t met face-to-face yet,” she clarified. “We matched through a dating app, and we were supposed to go on a first date.”

That first date never happened, Jill explained. Once he learned she would be indisposed for two weeks, he lost interest.

“I was kind of bummed because we had so much in common,” she added.

Jill, a recent divorcee, has been using dating apps (four apps, to be exact) and interacting with potential dates, but has never found the spark.

“He wasn’t a good match if he wasn’t willing to wait for me, right?”

Jill’s not the only relationship-seeker testing the pandemic dating waters.

Read more at https://www.vindy.com/life/lifestyles/2020/04/online-dating-during-quarantine-is-rough/ (may encounter paywall).