Do you feel like your relationship is stronger or weaker since lockdown?

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More aimed at couples who neither are key workers and both at home together!

Stronger :) he’s been a big emotional support plus we like hanging out together

I told him we were getting divorced about 1 week into lockdown - and I meant it!
But now 5,6, whatever weeks we are at now - I think we are stronger than before

Stronger. We have been able to have time together as I am not on shifts which always clashed. Both getting more sleep so less moods and nagging eachother

Stronger, getting time we never have now, we are both working on the road so we pass each other coming and going! We aim to watch a movie every night and getting on better than we ever did

Stronger, but with brief moments where we've wanted to kill each other.

Stronger - I'm talking about me and DH and also as a family as a whole. I'm an introvert and was dreading lockdown with us all being on top of each other (and not having a minute to myself!). I feel like our relationships are much stronger. The children are fighting less, we're all getting along better. I think DH and I are less stressed and exhausted so we're not snapping at each other like we used to.

Broken
Never mind.

Stronger, with him and the kids.

Stronger definitely . My wonderful mum died just before lockdown so things all very odd and difficult here. DH has been amazing in helping me adjust to things whilst we are juggling both our jobs and the kids between us and has been trying to help me get a little headspace and recovery time.

We are a very strong team and I'm so grateful for that.

This said if he touches my jigsaw puzzle again he's for it.

DH is furloughed and I'm a key worker working from home. We're home together all the time. With 2 kids, we all get on brilliant compared to what I thought it would be like.

Me and DH are so much closer. Life is so busy usually.

Difficult to say. Its reminded me what a decent person he is but highlighted how much we’ve grown apart.

I'm struggling mans being a compete bitch. Can't rein it in. DH probably wants to bury me under the patio

The same, but we both predominantly work from home anyway so there’s no real difference for us.

Stronger.

Weaker. I think we are going to separate. It's highlighted all the issues around division of labour in the house that have been a problem for to years and years. It's quite sad, but I just can't distract myself or pretend it's not happening during lockdown.

Stronger, even though with have lost father in law during lockdown and tricky young adult son and his girlfriend moved in with us for the duration, we have all got on much much better than expected. I will be sad to see it end in a way

Neither. Just the same as before lockdown really. But we’ve always got on well, and I knew lockdown with DH and the DC wouldn’t be a problem. I like my family.

A bit of a mixture... we have had a couple really bad blow-ups, but we have recovered from most of them fairly well. As a whole we are quite strong, there's no frequent (or even infrequent) low-level bickering, for example, which I think can be the real killer in these scenarios.

I think we are helped a lot in that we don't especially have money worries in all this as I inherited a very large sum last year, so even if both of us were to lose our jobs, we could stay afloat for a long time, so we are exceptionally lucky there. I am sure that is causing huge stress for a lot of people.

Not sure I'd say stronger but I'd say we're very content.

Uncovered his affair 😭. I think just maybe we have a better chance of working through things successfully (whatever that means) in these circumstances though.

Stronger. DH works away in the week usually but he is WFH. We like pootling around together and planning meals. We're eating too much though!

We were talking about having a break not long before but actually things seem to have taken an upturn and were getting on well

@Somerville yes!!!

Stronger, getting on like a house on fire!!

Stronger. We barely see each other when he works, just have tea and go to bed. It’s been so nice to see so much of him. I hope he feels the same about me, but I’ve been a right mardy bitch the past few days because I’m on my period, so I think if you asked him he’d be ready for a divorce😂