Brie and Luke O’Loughlin dated for only five months in real-life before they got engaged, and new research shows theirs is one of many relationships that have benefitted during the pandemic. covid19 relationships pandemic
From their second video date, which went for almost four hours, Brie and Luke O’Loughlin both had the feeling they’d found their person. They were right: 11 months later, they were tying the knot.
“What’s the purpose of waiting if you know they’re the one you’re going to be with? It’s like we’d done two or three years of dating in five intense months,” Brie says. “We decided we’re each other’s human.” And having uninterrupted time together in lockdown is special, too, Luke says: “It allows all the daily noise to stop … and the focus to be on each other.”A new survey of 2000 Australians, by dating website eHarmony and non-profit relationship services provider Interrelate, finds that 90 per cent of couples’ say their relationship has remained stable or improved since the pandemic began. Of those, more than half are having more open conversations and feeling a stronger emotional connection.
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