The times of living together in lockdown are putting relationship to the test. Constant togetherness, doing household chores together has given them to connect and improve their relationships.
They spend 24/7 together, which leads them to work on issues together, resulting in resilience and gaining compassion towards one another.
Several relationship coaches have noted bona fide effects they’ve seen from couples in quarantine.
Below, pros get specific about the ideas in which couples in quarantine to get through the coronavirus pandemic together:
Sharing chores can lead to improved relationships.
Involving in more regularly and visibly with shared household duties can create wonders for the relationship’s health.
“Working together on the same goal can be very healthy for a couple. Keeping the house clean, doing dishes together can provide a great sense of grounding and organization that can bring them near and make the couple feel more bonded, says therapist and relationship coach, Jaime Bronstein, LCSW. “It’s important to work from both ways in a relationship to have a strong relationship.”
Fewer distractions and more quality time
No business trips, no meetings, and work from home culture fill an entire day for your partner, which is worth a social calendar. There are no distractions and meeting calls from the outside world, allowing them to enjoy more quality time with their partner. They feel heard, seen, complete and known.
“When there are fewer distractions, a couple has ample time and space to focus on one another and on the relationship itself.” —Jaime Bronstein, LCSW
They can get closer and more connected by spending this time doing and working toward those things. It helps to build and work on their relationships as a couple.
This time is a reminder of their ‘early days’
Life has been a rat race in myriad ways since your relationship started, which may have rendered those activities like long date nights, cooking together, doing projects together, and being free like birds until quarantine brought back a wave of that charm.
“Spending time together and away from ‘normal’ life had brought many couples back to the olden times they were before they got together, and ‘real’ life intervened. The same chemistry, intensity, and delight they often employed early in their relationship sparked again when they had to change their lifestyles entirely. They rediscovered what they saw as truly special,” says Gigliotti.
The early of a relationship includes time spent just talking, cooking together, doing home tasks together quickly become tedious and items to check off a to-do list. “The lockdown made them value their relationship and gave them the time to explore how beautiful it relives that time.
Finding support from one another
Quarantine has forced to seek emotional support and seek security within their intimate partners. It created a spark of intimacy and filled their relationships with newfound strength.
” The stronger couple relationship has ameliorated fear, uncertainty, feelings of being anxious- all of these has been a sense of ‘the two of us against the world’ that is new and refreshing,” says Gigliotti.
