A Gen Z couple shares their experience of being in a long-distance relationship during the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges they faced in maintaining intimacy and connection.
We were set apart from the start: He’s from Malaysia, and I’m from Singapore. But we didn’t expect to be parted from each other so soon. We spent just two months together before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, forcing us back to our home countries. Thus began a 15-month stretch of long-distance dating, divided into two legs — one from March to September 2020, and another from May 2021 to January 2022.
Having never visited each other’s cities, we struggled to visualise each other’s daily lives and relied heavily on video calls and photographs. But even with modern technology, connection across physical separations cannot be guaranteed. Countless conversations got cut short due to poor Wi-Fi or last-minute plan
Gen Z Long-Distance Relationship Covid-19 Intimacy Connection
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