Six weeks into their relationship, lockdown took hold and this couple decided to wait it out at her parents It was late March and everyone in my family fell quiet as we gathered around the television to watch Boris Johnson announce that it was time for the UK to enter a full lockdown.
I slipped my hand into my boyfriend Jim*’s and looked up at him nervously. It was hard to tell how he felt about this escalation – he wasn’t looking at me but even if he had been, would I have been able to read his expression?
I didn’t actually know him that well. Jim, 35, and I met in January on the dating app Hinge, and had one of those spectacular first dates that leaves you thinking, ‘even if they don’t like me romantically, I still want to keep this