Adelina, 40, and Alan, 42, met during lockdown. When she became severely ill with long Covid he looked after her while she recovered. They plan to marry
Spending the summer of 2020 recovering from severe Covid-19 wasn’t something that Adelina had expected to be doing in her late 30s. Before the illness, she ran a tech consulting business and had a busy life. “The virus left me unable to breathe and I was hospitalised in March. That led to the breakdown of my previous relationship,” she says. In an effort to regain her health, Adelina started walking and getting fitter near where she lived in Cambridge. She joined a dating app in November, writing on her profile that she liked nature and had “just about died from Covid” a few months before.
Alan, who lived in Milton Keynes, responded. “I said it was a bit of an abrupt change in tone from talking about nature walks and asked how she was doing now,” he says. Liking that he had read her profile, rather than sending a generic hello, Adelina started chatting to him. A few weeks later they agreed to meet for a walk.
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