'True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories': Same-sex couple Nicole and Ashley feel the pressure of the pandemic
This episode of 'True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories' focused on exploring what happens to a relationship once the honeymoon phase is over. Battling a similar situation was featured same-sex couple Ashley and Nicole.
Both of them had been dating long distance and the pandemic hit when Ashley flew from Los Angeles to visit Nicole in Staten Island. This led to them being stuck together and initially it was great but things started to spiral after a while. Issues in their relationship came up due to the unplanned decrease of space between them and it started to affect both of them to a point where they were left questioning their situation.
Both of them had been on a dating show previously called 'Ex on the Peak'. Ashley wanted to be on the show in order to to repair her relationship with Nicole. However, Nicole went on and kissed a total of 30 people during her time on there and this was one of the things that gave rise to certain concerns in their existing relationship.
Secondly, Ashley had a discussion with her roommate back in LA about her lease being up within the next two weeks and she suddenly had to make the biggest decision of her life. In front of her was a tough choice to make: stay in Staten Island or pack her bags and go back. Even though she did love Nicole, Ashley knew that staying back would eventually lead to discussions of getting married and planning kids, something that she wasn't ready for at this point.
After much thought, she arrived at a decision and was ready to reveal it to Nicole. Before doing so, she cooked up a whole meal and Nicole mistook it as a sign that she was about to be broken up with and all this effort was to "soften the blow". At dinner, she opened up about how much Ashley means to her but she was not willing to hold her back or tie her down.
Emotions were really heightened at this point and Ashley decided to play along for a while and began to talk with a lot of seriousness. However, she couldn't keep the jig up and told Nicole that she's staying back. Nicole's relief on hearing the same was very evident.
The pandemic sure did wreak a lot of havoc with many relationships however it failed to damage what Nicole and Ashley shared. The latter got all of her belongings shipped to Staten Island and the couple has gone ahead to adopt a dog together since then. 'True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories' airs on Wednesday nights at 9 pm on MTV.
