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Whether you found solace or mere solitude in your pandemic breakup, it can’t be said enough: You deserve as much time as you need to feel better. I’m not a big fan of hustle culture at the best of times, but there’s something distinctly wrong about the deeply internalized pressure to thrive that many of us place on ourselves—in a pandemic!—while we deal with the hard things in our lives, whether that’s something as relatively small as a breakup or as life defining as the loss of a loved one. For Amanda, 35, a writer and podcast host, experiencing the end of a relationship during the pandemic was a bit more of a mixed bag. “I’ve had relationships crumble in the past, and the absolute most nauseating thing to consider when you’re entrenched in your own colossal emotional shitstorm is having to go to an office and be like, ‘Hi Margaret, here are the files’ or whatever. Getting dumped during quarantine meant I could dissociate on Zoom and maybe even turn my camera off and cry,” says ...