As we’re still living in a new world of pandemic, it’s becoming more and more obvious that even the most stable and happy marriages are struggling to survive. Social distancing and staying at home rules provide very sober demand to an institution of marriage.
Why is it happening? We’re confined to a limited area with our partner, with much smaller personal space than we’re used to. Majority of us need to learn how to balance a new working from home concept and personal life at the same time while it is happening twenty four hours a day, and seven days a week. This is a tough task as it is, and becoming a recipe for disaster if you add kids into this mix (it does not make any difference if we’re talking about babies or teenagers). In this situation, disaster is equal to separation or even worse, divorce.
CNN Matt Villano, has spoken with several clinical psychologists, Family Licensed Marriage Therapists as well as an ordinary married couples about how to make sure your marriage isn’t a casualty of the coronavirus.
What should we do? What is the most important thing we need to remember about and concentrate on? Communication has always been crucial for relationship, and in today’s world has become the most important mechanism for union to survive. The way we communicate is different to various people under a normal circumstances, and it will be different in this time. We should learn how to adjust our communication to each other to stay healthy not just physically but mentally as well.
Michele Weiner-Davis, a marriage and family therapist in Boulder, Colorado, said it doesn’t matter as much how couples communicate during a coronavirus shelter-in-place, but simply that they try to do so. Michele Weiner-Davis who also has a busy therapy practice. is explaining that “The biggest challenges I’ve faced so far are the cases in which both spouses are looking at what’s going on with different lenses—one person thinks the sky is falling and the other thinks people are making a big deal about it. When people have different perspectives, they have different ideas of what needs to be done, and the only way to work around that is to communicate.”
When you find yourself in a crucial situation under unprecedented circumstances, you look at life differently. Very often, you are wondering if your life is the way you want it to be or you need a change….
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