Home office duties, closed clubs and gyms, bans on parties and events and, in extreme cases, quarantine and curfew – the corona virus limits all of our freedom. For relationships, the unusual closeness and the forced squatting together can become a stress test. How your love can best survive the crisis.
Relationship in a tight space: 10 tips on how it works
1. Be aware that it is an extreme situation
The most important prerequisite for being lenient and fair with one another is that you are aware that the situation is difficult for both of you. Sitting together in the home office, hardly being able to avoid each other – it is only natural that sooner or later you will get on your nerves and react irritably to each other. Try to learn an indulgent and as relaxed as possible "crisis attitude" towards your sweetheart. After all, you both cannot do anything for this situation.
2. Home dating
If you can't go out, have a romantic evening at home. Light candles, cook together, take a bubble bath, watch a film, massage each other – do we have a date?
3. Play something
How about a game of chess? Or backgammon? Tricks? Strip Uno? Mariokart? Playing and laughing together relaxes the mood, passes the time and is fun. Unless one of you is a bad loser.
4. Communicate correctly (a lot)
Especially when you cannot avoid each other and cannot react anywhere, it is important that you exchange ideas openly and discuss what is troubling you. Talk about your feelings, tell each other what you need to feel good and find a way together. Pouting and keeping silent only makes the air at home thicker. In our articles you can read which communication errors you should generally avoid and how to argue properly.
5. Motivate each other
Find specific challenges like planking once a day, learning 30 words every day or meditating for 15 minutes that you want to create together. If you do it together, the motivation is twice as high.
6. Set me time
Agree to have time off just for you every day. Periods in which you leave yourself alone and everyone does something just for themselves – and that's completely okay! "Sitting on top of each other" doesn't have to mean that you do everything together.
7. Clear division of tasks
If you are both at home, you should both make sure that it is clean, tidy and beautiful there. Draw up a budget together, in which the tasks are fairly distributed. Then you save yourself a lot of unnecessary discussion and arguing.
8. Variety in bed
Having a lot of time for two is a good opportunity to try something new during sex. From tantra sex to spanking or bondage to different sex positions – sexual experimentation strengthens your bond and in the best case raises your mood.
9. Exchange views on work
If you are working together in the home office in exceptional cases, take the chance to experience what your treasure actually does in detail all day long. Or ask him for advice – sometimes an outside perspective is worth more than that of an insider / colleague.
10. Be optimistic
Of course, it is anything but funny that we are not allowed to party, travel or train with the Zumba group right now – but sitting in the corner and crying only makes it worse. Being "locked up" as a couple, then even with someone you love is better than alone, even if you get on your nerves sometimes. You can build each other up, be close, comfort, laugh with each other. Thinks at itthe next time you wish you had more room for yourself. At some point you can go to Zumba training again. And when your relationship passes this test, you can do anything.