“Chronic illness already made dating hard. And then the pandemic arrived.
“I almost forgot—” my childhood friend interjected as we were wrapping up a phone call on a blustery September day. “I talked to Lindsey and she agrees that you don’t need to put a disclosure on your dating profile. You can just cross that bridge if you meet someone you like.”
Her comment startled me from my meditative walk-and-talk on the golf course in my backyard; I had already put aside the profile dilemma and was trying not to think about it too often, this question of how someone like me might date. And even more complicated: how someone like me might date years into a pandemic that—as far as most people are concerned—is long over.”