Convince them to start learning your parents’ language so they won’t hate your significant other for keeping you up at night.

Have them meet the parents! Over FaceTime, in the dead of night, when you’ve woken the family up with your remote pillow talk but they refuse to show they’re furious on camera.Gleefully tiptoe back into the house, basking in the thrill of rebellion against shelter-in-place.

Realize it’s not dark out for them yet because time zones are ridiculous and should be cancelled.

Sneak out at night to stargaze together.

Up for a spicy challenge? Try to stay on beat and pitch after they start singing along with a 3 second lag. Strategically transpose to avoid the E chord your tiny hands can’t handle.

Serenade them with a duet from “High School Musical: the Musical: the Series,” the highlight of your recent Disney+ investment.

Bust out the ukulele you bought and forgot about after your hipster phase.

Once you’re back on campus, you can poster putty that bad boy up on your wall and flex on all of your blockmates. Visit the city of love - incredible! Look at the Eiffel Tower when it was still swarming with tourists! Or take long walks on the beach together, one rush of 30 feet at a time.

Travel the world together via Street View on Google Maps.

Suffer silently when “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” becomes stop motion right when you find out who framed Roger Rabbit.

The classic Zoom movie night! Spend some quality time arguing over who has to deal with the screen share lag.

Follow these simple suggestions, and you’re sure to find that (social) distance makes the heart grow fonder indeed - and if not fonder, then at least thirstier for human contact. But have no fear: Rachel is here with her limited relationship experience to single-handedly keep your remote romance alive. And now you find yourselves evicted from campus, quarantined in homes thousands of miles away from each other with only Zoom to help your budding relationship bloom. So you got cuffed this season: You thought you would have all semester to spend with your new boo - but just as your feelings for each other grew exponentially, so did the curve of coronavirus infections.

How to have a zoom movie night