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How has lockdowns/COVID affected your relationship?

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Echobelly · 15/01/2021 15:50

Can't remember where I saw the figures, but in sonme survey about 45% of couples claimed lockdown etc had made their relationshop stronger 51% about the same with 4% saying it had got worse. Kind of surprised me to see that final figure so low - would also be interested to see a breakdown for people with kids and without.

But then maybe there is a degree of appreciating that you are together and have someone to be with and touch etc and even if things aren't perfect, it's better than being on your own?

DH can have a temper (comes from a shouty family) though he has been getting much better in last few years, so I was a bit worried at the start that the stress could get to him and that side would come up again but actually he's been really good and generally this has made us stronger as a unit.

I'll admit we are probably helped a lot compared to many households by the fact that we don't have to worry greatly about money - I received an inheritence in 2019 that would be enough to keep us afloat for a while if anything happens to our income, so that removed a major potential stressor.

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FippertyGibbett · 15/01/2021 15:51

It has made it worse as I’m furloughed so not getting out to work.

garlictwist · 15/01/2021 15:53

I think it's made me more needy and annoying. DP is going out to work and I'm stuck at home seeing no one. I feel myself getting really annoyed if he's late home and have been a bit of a dick a few times and rung him to ask him to "come home now" when I start losing my shit a bit after 16 hours alone in the house all day. I don't like the person it's made me.

AnneLovesGilbert · 15/01/2021 15:56

It was good before and it’s great having more time together and really lovely for DH to have more time with DD and vice versa.

We’ve been spared the horrors a lot of people have experienced and that, of course, makes it easier to be nice to each other.

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Frouby · 15/01/2021 16:07

Ours has grown stronger if anything, if you had asked me at the start I would have said we would be killing each other by now.

First lockdown was incredibly stressful at the start, dh is in construction and we didn't know whether he was to work or not so he had 4 weeks off. During that time his dad died of covid and dh developed symptoms so we had all that to deal with. But once he was back at work things seemed to calm down.

We still bicker and argue, I'm stressed atm doing a degree, homeschooling ds (7) and have dd (16) at home as well but we are getting into a routine now and I'm cherry picking which school work ds does as 3 hours just wasn't achievable without tears and stress so we are just doing english,maths and reading then maybe a bit of the geography etc.

Echobelly · 15/01/2021 16:47

Yeah we're also lucky kids are 9 and 12 not, say, 2 and 5. I think I'd literally had to have given up work if the kids were that age. Not been without stress, including from husband, but much easier than some.

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