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In theory, Johnny, Claire, and I were perfectly situated to figure out how to keep each other healthy during a coronavirus pandemic. And at first, everything went smoothly. The three of us agreed via text messages to wash our hands upon coming home each day, which — in early March — seemed like enough. When the weight of the pandemic really hit us, Claire and I fled the apartment and shacked up with our families, who had been urging us to shelter with them. (Each of us was initially reluctant to make that move, given Covid-19’s variable incubation period.) But we didn’t leave at the same time. I was the first to bolt on March 13, just a few hours after learning that Claire was going on a date at a bar that night. Maybe my sudden exit made the pandemic feel more real to Claire because she departed shortly thereafter. Johnny, who was still going to work on the farm, suddenly had the apartment to himself.

With that said, it is not an easy journey, but one I am grateful to be on. I still worry on occasion that I am hurting him, even though I know this is the best thing for Stephen, myself and our children. Living my authentic truth is the best gift I can give to me and everyone I love. Each day that I do, I see the natural consequence of my choices and how it is beautifully affecting each one of us.

He said in an interview in 2018: ‘I wanted not to have regrets. I knew for a fact that if I don’t try, I’m going to regret having never tried’. He added: ‘And I know also, if I try and fail, I’ll never regret having tried and failed. As soon as I thought about it that way, I knew I had to try.’

Stephen and I have talked at length about this entire process over the last year. We have held each other through some painful moments, we have talked about the fear, disappointment, loss, hope, and our future together as family and friends instead of spouses and I know we are going to be okay. In fact I know we will all thrive in a way we have not yet, as this new life of ours unfolds. When we live in truth, everyone around us benefits.

I could tell you it is because Stephen didn’t know how to be present or have any interests, but it would be a lie. Because I know women who would be happy with what Stephen brings to the table and where he is in his own evolution. I wish I could have been me while allowing Stephen to be himself, but I was never able to do that without turning myself down.

How long should someone quarantine in their bedroom when they’ve just flown on Thanksgiving weekend? This is the question my roommate Johnny and I found ourselves debating two weeks ago as our other roommate, Claire, planned her return to Boston after months spent with family in the Midwest. The three of us have shared an apartment in Boston’s leafy, lefty Jamaica Plain neighborhood for more than a year. Until now, our most arduous household challenges have been fixing the projector screen we use to watch movies or finding the source of a sudden sour stench in the fridge (spoiler: a bag of moldy cabbage from the farm where Johnny works). Claire’s return amid the fall Covid-19 surge changed everything.

Stephen and I have talked at length about this entire process over the last year. We have held each other through some painful moments, we have talked about the fear, disappointment, loss, hope, and our future together as family and friends instead of spouses and I know we are going to be okay. In fact I know we will all thrive in a way we have not yet, as this new life of ours unfolds. When we live in truth, everyone around us benefits.

So, instead I am loving and celebrating Stephen for who he is and giving myself permission to no longer be married without judging myself negatively for it. I hope he finds and receives everything he needs to grow and expand into his full potential. I want to see him happy, and I hope that includes him finding a wonderful person to love and who loves him back the way he needs to be loved. What a beautiful thing for each of us to model to our children. It is never too late.

Before Covid-19 jumped species, the idea of catching a virus from one of my roommates never left me lying awake at night. I’ve worked in Boston as a freelance writer since 2012. In those eight years, I’ve split rent with enough roommates to staff a Covid-19 testing clinic. And I’ve enjoyed having them, actually. Co-living with roommates allows you the choice of doing your own thing or being social depending on what you’re feeling. I initially met Johnny and Claire through Craigslist, and it took us just a few weeks to learn that on top of being able to take turns vacuuming the kitchen or carrying the recycling crate down a long flight of stairs — without a chore schedule! — we enjoyed each other’s company. We’d team up for recreational adventures like shirtless runs in nearby Arnold Arboretum. Other times, we’d invite friends over to make pizzas or drunkenly build with Legos. We talked with each other, honestly, about dating, work, and our families.

I ignored that for years because I didn’t believe I deserved more. I believed I would be punished if I hurt Stephen in an effort to be happier, I was afraid to hurt my children any more than I may have already, I was afraid of the unknown. Somewhere on this journey I grew spiritually and became much more self-aware. As fate would have it, we were given an opportunity to live separately for 3 1/2 months. We were moving across the Pacific and Stephen needed to stay at his job for four more months than I did. I went ahead with our only child who was still at home. Separated, all of the anxiety, depression and confusion that seemed a normal part of my life by now, lifted. It became blatantly clear that my unhappiness was a result of me denying what I knew for years. It was because I had created the most inauthentic existence and I was dying a little each day as a result.

Many of my friends with roommates in Boston and New York went through this — an exodus to live with family as the spring surge began. In retrospect, it was a high-stakes gamble — and one I’d never repeat. It wasn’t until early June when I returned to Boston and only after the three of us had agreed on a few ground rules: not to let anybody from outside our household into the apartment, to always wear our masks and social distance when we were outside the apartment, and to avoid any nonessential trips to indoor businesses whenever possible. By mid-summer, the three of us were settling back into familiar household exploits. We had groups of two to three friends over to watch Speed and Point Break on our open-air porch, but we spaced the chairs six feet apart.

Jeff Bezos could have sticked to his stable and successful job at Wall Street. But what has prompted him to leave his banking career behind him was that he didn’t want to live a life of regret.

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Johnny and I concurred that Claire would ideally self-isolate from us upon moving back in — given the risks of getting on a plane and the Thanksgiving holiday weekend — but we disagreed on the duration of isolation we’d ask of Claire. (The word “ask” is important here.) I wanted 10 days, if not the full 14 required by Massachusetts for arrivals from Covid-19 red zones. Johnny was comfortable with five. Since Claire evidently hadn’t been planning to self-isolate until we brought it up with her, this put me in the position of being the Covid-19 hardass, the bug-eyed roommat