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Talk about your current living situation. Has anything changed during the pandemic (for example, where you're living, who you're living with, etc.).

I live in a studio with my husband. We have been living here since September, when I moved to the country, 2 months after getting civilly married. The goal was to move once I got a job --- but that hasn't happened yet. We joke that we went from a long-distance relationship to living in a studio, to being in 'shelter at home' in a studio. And boy has it been tough at times. We have taken to sometimes using the bathroom as a separate room. It means that if we have a fight, we still have to sit in the same room with each other OR walk out of the house to take a break. It means that when I wake up 3 hours before my husband I need to work quietly and he just needs to get used to little bits of noise in the morning because there is nowhere else for me to sit. It means either sitting at the table or on my bed throughout the day. Thankfully we have a garden - which I have used very often during the nice days. I honestly don't know what I would have done if I didn't have the garden. I feel so bad for everyone who did not have an outdoor space to go to. The studio also only has a mini fridge - which means that we are unable to stock up on food. There also isn't really storage space for non-fridge food. It took some time to get used to shopping during COVID. As we live next to a grocery store, we were used to going 2-3 times a week to stock up, and now we try to only go once a week and find places to store everything. We are making do with that. My husband and I joke, that if we are able to make it through COVID in a studio, we will be fine for anything else that comes our way in the future.