The vaccine “like a sesame to open the bedroom door”

“Frankly, I held on for over a year. It was inconceivable for me to meet my “date” until I was sure of myself and him. The vaccine was a must. Amandine, 29, has just shared a drink on the terrace with Samir, 35 … More than twelve months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The almost thirty years old responded to the call for testimonies launched by 20 minutes, which, we do not hide it from you, relied on its readers to have crisp anecdotes of the first “date” architendu post 19-May. Nay, singles who have found love (or fun) on dating apps seem to come out of the epidemic much wiser than those who flirted a year ago, in Bordeaux.

No more naughty evenings, two or more, organized despite sanitary rules, our singles (or not) are waiting today for their vaccine to have, like Axel, 33 years old, their dose of “skin, love and sex” . A vaccine “like a sesame to open the bedroom door,” notes Agathe, 21, nicely. “I was too scared even though I obviously missed meeting people in one year,” adds Amandine. Friends did not respect the sanitary rules, but at what cost. Some called me downright freaked out, thinking they had caught the Covid-19. “” I chained the cats, I sometimes called the guys with whom I spoke on Tinder in video but never I would have put my parents in danger, assures Agathe, joined on Instagram. And then my aunt found me a dose… ”

“The vaccine was a pact between my ex and me”

Vaccinated, even half, Agathe rushed not without “having indicated on Bumble” that she had had her first injection. The same goes for Maxime, 44 years old. “I have two children, an ex-wife with whom I still live. No way to be the one to bring the Covid-19 home. The vaccine was a pact between my ex and me. It’s been two years since we separated and I signed up on Tinder just before the epidemic. I held on but, there it is, I gave up everything. “

“There is something frenetic about the current ‘dates’, comments Hanna Antony, author of Dummy (Kiwi Romans, 254 pages) and experienced in online dating. In the midst of the pandemic, singles were taking risks, despite fines and contamination. Passion took precedence over reason. The reopening of bars now succeeds in making them wait, by offering a horizon, a possibility. And therefore the time to be vaccinated to better benefit from its “dates” and to multiply them. “

Maxime admits to having logically chosen the “terrace in the sun” to find the one with whom he had been chatting for “a few months”. “Like me, she was waiting for the vaccine. It reassured her. Like me, she did not stop there, explains the quadra who for a month has been chaining “dates”. After a year of waiting, regaining privacy is still the best reward. This is what they should be talking about in their vaccination campaign. »Hanna Anthony does not contradict Maxime. The 30-something who is also behind the Instagram account @relation_textuelle ensures that the return of the terraces now makes “the date easier and safer”, as well as the vaccine which allows “the faster we see each other, the faster we go to bed”.

“The vaccine, it became as important as the condom at one time”

“To be able to feel your body against mine, to have the feeling of living again is really a magical moment that we experienced more intensely than if it had been a banal date”, explains Nathalie, who chose to meet couples again on dedicated dating sites (yes, good, Wyylde). “The mask and the vaccine, it became for my husband and me as important as the condom at one time”, confides Alexandre. The couple had not let go of their weekly evenings in Bordeaux when the Covid-19 landed. A few months later, he regrets, considers having been “negligent” and assures that since September 2020 [la deuxième vague] only had sex with people “who were part of a mini-circle of the privileged”.

The duo is now “back in force” on a dating site between libertines. And there, as on Happn, Bumble et cie, the registrants are displayed “vaccinated”. “This is really the trendy thing and it helps start a conversation. We even often show each other our certificates from the first meeting, explains Louison, 24, single before Covid-19 who has just nabbed “the Tinder virus”.

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“We went from the” date “stroll by zero degrees which did not make you want to persist to the” date “during the beautiful days and with vaccine, it changes the situation”, slice Hanna Antony, who has worked for a time for the late Apricot app. And even for dating apps, the change is now. The last two, Heart’s Hunters and Stam, bet on the “date” in complete safety by emphasizing distancing (video chat) to avoid, according to the app expert, waste of time, disappointments, fatigue emotional and, above all, the taking of health risks.