I choose not to date or actively hunt for a partner, so this situation is not affecting my life in that respect. It's cold outside and I live in a small town, so there isn't much to do anyway. In a month or so I will be busy trying to make things bloom in my yard, so good enough times are ahead. Having lived a life full of more than my fair share of hardship and strife, a little boredom is pleasure.

How has COVID-19 affected your dating and social life?

For me, no difference. Living in a state with an all but absent population of atheist (a requirement to meet my standard for acceptable (dating) relationship) I really don't have an outside of work social life.

I think I'm in the same boat you are. I was just starting to get my confidence back about dating. I was just starting to enjoy meeting new friends. I was starting to build a satisfying single life, then wham.

Adversely. They're really wanting to us to further restrict our social and public interactions here in Colorado. Stay in. Only go out once per week for groceries (or better yet have them delivered).

After telling my girlfriend we should not see each other for a bit until this is under control (bunker up) she broke up with me. I feel I am being responsible for helping to limit the spread of the virus. She feels abandoned. Which I get. It's a terrible, shitty situation.

Look at the positive side for a moment. We all have a built-in excuse for avoiding people we don't want to be around without hurting their feelings. 'In every cloud'..

Since my wife died, I've never had one, so, no, nothing has changed for me except I stay indoors more.

Maybe a better question, is, how do you plan to trust someone(for the long haul) whoms knows they can just find another you or maybe 'even better' by simply jumping back online and dating again?

My dating situation hasn't changed one bit. It's still non-existent.