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"Echoed across everyone – gay, straight, in their 20s, 30s or 40s – is this sense that, for the government, “the nuclear family has been the priority”" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/11/we-are-desperate-for-human-contact-the-people-breaking-lockdown-to-have-sex
This article is really comprehensive and also covers the underreported houseshare politics and what happens to non-cohabiting couples
Something I've also noticed is how the importance of friendship has been swept away by the rules. Some people absolutely thrive from being surrounded by the love of their friends, even those in committed relationships. But now monogamous coupledom is all that's permitted.
"Arguably, many of us are only rule-abiding because the rules acknowledge us". This is absolutely key
It is a huge, huge pressure to put on couples and singles alike to either be in monogamous relationships, where you are everything to that person in the absence of friends, or expect them to abstain from intimacy for the foreseeable future.
Concerned about what this is going to do for concepts of healthy relationships post pandemic but also the emphasis we put on friendship. Now romance is positioned as the answer to everything. But friends really are just as important.
Just to note the Guardian piece is by @zoesqwilliams!
