Hands up if you’ve felt lost in the last 12 months? Disorientated, confused and generally pissed off? You’re not alone.

Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic and the trauma that was inflicted in 2020, it’s the feeling of frustration and anxiety that’s bubbled beneath the surface of our collective consciousness. Memes point to the pain the world experienced in an ‘unprecedented’ year. We hopefully rushed to see in 2021 in the hope that we could leave the mess of the year before behind us. And, though it’s a bit bleak, there’s an unspoken comfort in knowing that a stranger on the other side of our phones or laptop screens is feeling the same way as we do.

No Love Lost: how love, sex and relationships (mostly) survived a truly awful year