Dear Level

The New Rules to Dating While Quarantined

How you can still get close while social distancing

Aliya S. King
LEVEL
Published in
4 min readMar 27, 2020

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Illustration: Janet Sung

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UUsually, Dear Level caters to male readers who are married or in a relationship (or situationship). But this time around, I’m addressing the single dudes out there. And I’ve got a question for you:

How are you holding up in these quarantined times?

I’m sharing a spot with my relatively new boo. It’s fine. We’re making it. I’ve lived alone for several stretches of my adult life, and I’ve worked from home for more than two decades. I was built for this.

But I also crave companionship in my off time. If I didn’t happen to get boo’d up, I wonder what I’d be doing now to connect. I can chat with my friends and family, but that’s not the only thing I’d need. So I can’t imagine how single guys are faring these days.

Propose you each get delivery from the same restaurant. Clean up a corner of your crib, and hit the phone or laptop camera. Wave, eat, talk, smile. Take turns cranking up a mini-playlist…

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Aliya S. King
LEVEL
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Aliya S. King is an author, freelance writer and editor.