in the time of coronavirus? Nice thought, but the past few months haven’t been enormously romantic. Perhaps you’re single and saw your love life vanish into thin air back in March, replaced by quantities of ‘quiet time’ that a Trappist monk would find oppressive.Perhaps you’ve been locked down with someone you loathe and hadn’t got around to leaving earlier.
Or perhaps you’ve simply endured a Groundhog Day type of domestic life that has at times brought you to frustrated tears. Whatever your circumstances, a not entirely welcome effect of the pandemic has been that relationships – and all that’s challenging about them – have come under a glaring spotlight.So how did a marriage proposal emerge from a time like this?