Maintaining a long-distance relationship is tough enough, but try throwing in a global pandemic, and things become next to impossible. And when we say long distance, we really mean long distance -– this isn't a Los Angeles situation, where long distance equates to one person living in West Hollywood while the other lives in the Marina -– but long long distance, we're talking countries and multiple time zones apart. During her sit down with The List, Memphis, from "90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days," shared that maintaining her relationship with on-screen love Hamza during the pandemic was incredibly challenging, as it basically put everything on hold.
"Oh my gosh. With COVID, it has been a lot more difficult. There's time restrictions and then there's curfews in certain places and that limits your availability to do this or to go places," Memphis shared. "It makes it more difficult because who wants to just sit in the house all the time? We want to get out and try to see how each other deals with mingling with other people. You know what I mean? Those are important things." Elaborating on seeing Hamza out in the real world, Memphis shared that interacting with friends, going out for dinner, and generally socializing with your significant other are very important aspects of a relationship to her –- the pandemic essentially put those desires on a less than ideal pause. "I think a lot of those, what we would more consider to be traditional periods of time where you learn about each other, has been completely rewritten," she said.