“I’m on staff at a luxury apartment building in Manhattan. There is a small room in the basement with a pullout couch in there, and so I’ve been living there. My wife at home is pregnant. Sometimes I just cry into my pillow like a little boy”
Photo: Andrei Box Roc/Getty Images/EyeEm Premium Isolating with a partner can cause its fair share of stress, especially if you’re stuck in a cramped apartment, just plain sick of each other, or your relationship was on the rocks to begin with and now you’re actually living with your ex. But for couples who aren’t able to isolate together, even being able to fight about the dishes might feel like a luxury right now.
We’re doing it to protect both of us. He’s being extremely cautious, but he’s coming into contact with at least three other people a day. His staff is doing their very best, but some have roommates. And there are delivery pickup guys. They stand far away and there’s zero contact, but he’s still scared.
There is a small room in the basement with a pullout couch in there, and so I’ve been living there. My wife at home is pregnant. Between taking the subway to and from work every day and interacting with other building staff and tenants, it just feels too risky coming back to her at night. We feel like neither of us can make a move. I’m a Broadway actor, so I have no work coming in and plan on not paying my rent until it catches up with me or I get evicted. My boyfriend has no gigs to speak of at the moment, so by the time he gets home, we might be homeless. We are not the sexting type, but we talk all day and just try to be bitchy and funny together — it helps. I love him and miss him, but I’m fine on my own.
It feels like a part of my heart is missing without my husband, but I am also grateful that we are both in safe environments. I miss him terribly, and it hurts me to think about him alone in our house. We don’t have children of our own, but we do have two dogs, so we decided he would keep one at home, and I would have the other one here with me in Vermont. It helps knowing neither of us is completely alone.
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