Is this a Lock-Down Break-Up?

Are we giving up on our relationships or finally getting real?

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The year 2020 has brought challenges no one expected. The global pandemic and its effects on our finances, our family life and our health has rocked our world. Those of us lucky enough to skate through without getting sick (yet) have been faced with a new and radically altered reality.

Divorce rates have skyrocketed during this year. In the months of March through June, couples have filed at a rate 34% higher than the same period last year. Just three weeks into the lockdown, there was a 57% spike in divorce filings.

So did the pandemic kill the relationship? Or was it something more?

Where We Go Wrong

We become disconnected when there is no reason to connect. You cannot save a doomed relationship on your own. I give a lot of credit to the people who bolted in the first three weeks. Those are the brave souls who said no. The world is a mess, and I don’t know what is going to happen next but life is too short to be locked up in this.

Teetering on the edge of making a decision is a hard place to be and stepping into the unknown always feels precarious. Check your feelings. In your heart, you already know the answer.