How are people managing being separated?

[anxiousanimal]

Hi all,
I am struggling a LOT with not being with my partner during this time. I am 19 stuck at my parents house because they want me to be at home during the lockdown.
But I am breaking down at the smallest thing due to missing my partner so much. I am crying right now over the fact that I can't have a cuddle.
Is that pathetic?
I'm just finding this really really hard, I miss him a lot.
Please give any advice, I need it!

If you’re an adult with a partner presumably you usually live together - why can’t you tell your parents you’re going to go back to your own home to self-isolate?

I don’t really have any advice as such except to still keep in regular communication. Zoom, WhatsApp Live. Go old school, write letters. Make plans for when you’ll be able to see each other next. If you’re in a relationship for the long haul then there will almost certainly be other points in your relationship in the future where you’re apart for a week or more, you can’t break down in tears over it.

It’s tough but all in same boat to one degree or another.

Be thankful for technology. If this had happened in 1985, I’d have been chatting to them on the phone in the living room with my mum and dad sat watching Coronation Street!

It's not an easy decision, I'm constant thinking I should go back to my kids (adults) rather than be with my dp (they are fine, have their boyfriends staying for the duration £

I'm on week 2 of shielding - I havent see my boyfriend for a week. I'm sucking it up because i dont want to die. It's shit, it's hard, but the more people who come out the other side of this alive the better.