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In A Pandemic, My Husband Is Not Himself
If they are paying attention, Your loved ones are probably a little off too, in these crazy times.
With the worldwide COVID-19 crisis we are all in together, my husband seems to have lost his precious mind.
I do not mean that he is hysterical, or even afraid. He remains remarkably calm, but I notice little things every day. These things, combined with my own anxiety — which I prefer to think of as an excess of caution — are beginning to affect my own behavior.
Waking up to a new world every single day is exhausting. How couples cope, and how each of us cope with an onslaught of challenges, should be considered, and refreshed, daily.
Your take-away may on how to tolerate upheavals, may be different from mine, but be patient, and you will find solutions.
What we are all doing differently?
When we wake up each morning to more scary statistics, and warnings about social distancing, all of us are bound to be feeling, and acting, differently.
My spouse is calling his sister more than once a day. He is compulsively making lists of food and supplies, even though we stock our pantry well. (We read The Coming Plague, etc. and have known about on-coming climate crisis events many years ago.) He is ordering…