Wondering if others are feeling this: my boyfriend and I had been together just over a year prior to lockdown starting. We've generally been very happy; he's very kind and generous and attentive, and have had a lot of fun.
We don't have together: I have a 9 year-old DD and I always intended to take this extremely slowly so moving in has not yet been seriously discussed, but in any case lockdown happened so quickly we didn't really get a chance to think about how we'd deal with things so obviously we're now physically separated and likely to remain so for the next several weeks minimum.
He's been very attentive and we're in touch multiple times a day, but I am struggling with it nonetheless. He had made every effort to include me in a lot of the virtual social activities he takes part in so I'm invited to a lot of his zoom drinks/pub quizzes etc. But because I'm not with him physically I feel like a bit of a spare part and feel very distanced from him.
I was on one recently with a bunch of his old mates and I felt really insecure: don't know them enough to feel comfortable and because I wasn't physically "there" it was difficult to engage with people so I sort of sat there like a limpet for a while and then made my excuses.
There's nothing in particular that he's done to make me feel insecure and if I'm being honest I'm probably paranoid, but I struggle to feel that closeness and I wonder if our relationship will survive.
Anyone else feeling like this and do they have any coping strategies?