In December, my boyfriend Dan told me that there was a bad virus going around China. Like most Americans, I wasn’t really worried at the time. I figured it was something happening in China and it was hardly a threat to me and my family.
“Should I be worried?” I finally asked him one day as I saw him reading a story about it on his phone.
“No, I don’t think so,” he said. Deep down, he was worried that COVID-19 was going to hit the United States. But, like most healthcare professionals, he tried to tell himself that it was just a virus going around China and it wouldn’t effect the United States.
At the beginning of March, I went over to Dan’s house since we were planning on ordering dinner and watching a movie. Dan looked tense throughout my whole visit to his house.
“We might not be able to see each other for a little while,” he finally said to me while we ate our take-out meal from a Mexican restaurant. “It might be dangerous.”
I thought he was being way out of line. At the beginning of March, most people weren’t really worried about COVID-19, even though it had already hit Europe and there was some cases in the United States.
“I think you’re being a little dramatic,” I laughed. However, my views would change within the next following weeks.
I’m a secretary for a business, and my boss told me I should start working from home on March 13. That’s when it really hit me. This is really bad.
Dan and I saw each other a few days later and I knew what had to be done in order to keep the both of us healthy. We can’t continue seeing each other until this monster passes.
“I don’t want to get you infected if I get it,” he said to me seriously. “I have so much faith in our relationship that I know that this will be ok.”
I agreed, but still couldn’t believe it was happening. However, we made a plan. Our relationship was going to withstand this storm.
So, we talk on the phone. We FaceTime. We text. We try to keep our relationship as normal as possible without seeing one another. I miss him so much, but I have faith that we are doing the right thing.
It’s really difficult some days. I miss him so much that it makes me cry. However, I know I’ll be able to see him regularly soon. I love him so much and I am so proud of him.
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