So when can we see our partners who we don't live with

[JaneWool]

Desperate to see boyfriend of 3 years. We both live with our parents and it wasnt appropriate to move in together, not fair on parents.
He lives 25 minutes away but when driving there, police are turning people around for 'non-essential' journey.
Im starting to feel really trapped that I cant see him :( i just want a walk

The government know that people want this. It would be a massive win to give it to us all. But the data shows it’s too risky. That’s fairly obvious from the reports.

You need to wait. It’s a lot to ask but you are preventing the spread of a deadly virus. This is your contribution. Others are making much bigger contributions.

They said today we can meet up with one person (at a time I assume they mean) from another household as long as we stay socially distanced. And we can now drive to undertake exercise.

So drive somewhere for a walk with your partner and have a walk staying two meters from him. If you think this is worth the risk.

@VanGogh can you link to that where it states we can meet up with another person as long as they are socially distanced?

@VanGoghsDog Yes please link, because I heard him say it was ok to go to the park, sit, play sports but ONLY with your household!

One other person is allowed

www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-address-to-the-nation-on-coronavirus-10-may-2020

Here's the complete transcript of the Prime Minister's address. The full document will be published tomorrow (Monday) so perhaps there will be more clarity then.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-new-covid-19-three-step-lockdown-rules-explained-11986177

It's in here, apparently a 'government official' claridied this late last night

Well, I definitely heard it somewhere but you're right that it's not in that transcript.

The Mirror has got it from somewhere too:

www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/lockdown-changes-16-things-you-22005062.amp

Personally, also locked down away from dp, it's not a risk I'm going to take. Plus I think it would be worse than not seeing him.

When talked last night about my moving in for the rest of lockdown/social distancing. We didn’t do it at the start for lots of good reasons, which still apply, but are both missing each other so much. I know people are making bigger sacrifices, but I’m on my own and I’m miserable at lot of the time.

I still don’t know what we’ll do, but it’s definitely a possibility (we can’t 2m park meet, because we live in different cities).

This isn't going to end anytime soon I would move in together

Dominic Raab said you can meet your partner outdoors 2m apart. Not in gardens (even though that is outdoors) as it is considered part of the household and ‘mixing households’. Doesn’t make much sense but there you go. Surely outside is outside?

I think the new rule is you can see each other at a 2 metre distance in a park or similar.

This was said this morning on BBCbreakfast

On bbc news now

The rules have always said no groups of more than two people from different households but there has been no positive "groups of two people are allowed"

You can go to work and mix with lots of other people, sharing the same air conditioned/recycled air, you can touch the same stair rails, door handles, lift buttons etc as hundreds of others, but if you have a partner/boyfriend/girlfriend/lover living alone in a separate house and who has been isolating for 6 weeks, as have you, you're not allowed to meet up because its deemed a higher risk. Its barking mad. And will lead to more people breaking this lockdown because of stupid and inconsistent rules.

@DateandTime, there was no mixing households prior to this.

I know but it also said no groups of more than two from different households which didn't make any sense

There's been some "clarification" Personally, I think meeting a loved one you haven't seen for weeks and staying 2m apart might be harder than not seeing them at all

BBC News - Coronavirus: Use common sense to see loved-ones outdoors – Dominic Raab
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52612449

I live 80 miles apart from my partner too, but it does sound like I can finally see him in a park but maintaining the 2m apart. I'll take that opportunity at the moment, but only if that's clarified later.

It’s already been clarified. There was a press conference after Boris Johnson’s speech. It was clarified in that, hence the reason why the press are reporting it so you should be fine to do this.

Haha it's funny everyone quoting crap from newspapers instead of the actual speech!! Good lord what's going on, are people forgetting that papers tell lies!

The papers are quoting the clarification ministers have given since the speech?

@wishfuldreamer I too think we will have to move in together for the rest of Lockdown and the kids go back and forth (different cities )

@Mikki2019 - yeah. there are a lot of things for us to consider, it's a bit complicated. No kids, but a whole bunch of other things. But i'm going to mull it over this week, i guess, and we'll have to talk about it.