“With quarantine, people have more free time, less opportunity to be out doing things with friends, increased loneliness and higher levels of stress and anxiety,” explains Jessica Small, therapist and life coach with Growing Self Counseling and Coaching. “The circumstances of dating are ripe for creating false intimacy in relationships.”
“With quarantine, people have more free time, less opportunity to be out doing things with friends, increased loneliness and higher levels of stress and anxiety,” explains Jessica Small, therapist and life coach with Growing Self Counseling and Coaching. “The circumstances of dating are ripe for creating false intimacy in relationships.”
PANDEMIC RELATIONSHIPS GET HOT AND HEAVY FAST. BUT DOES THAT MAKE BREAKING UP EXTRA PAINFUL? With everything going on in the world, a bout of heartbreak could prove catastrophic. But, as some couples are finding out, it’s a whole different kind of agony.
Building rituals of connection into your day (i.e. giving hugs and kisses in the morning and before bed, having meals together, etc.) is just as important and often more easily accessible,” Jessica Small, M.A., LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist, tells HelloGiggles.
“Problem-solving and meeting a partner’s needs requires having had the opportunity to absorb what your partner’s telling you they need, or hope for, from you.”
You can do this by using the following formula: “how you are feeling plus a positive personal need,” said Jessica Small, MA, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist with Growing Self Counseling and Coaching.