26: How to Keep the Flame Alive in Quarantine
Love Life with Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
I’ve lost count of what week of social distancing we’re in.
But I do know that if you’ve been living with someone since quarantine started then you’ve had your ups and downs.
We need space in our relationship for desire to thrive. But how do you create space with someone who is always there? If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how do you stay exciting to your partner if you're never absent?
In today's episode, we talk about some simple, practical ways to approach this situation and avoid making the mistakes that are hurting good relationships...
This isn’t just about getting space, it’s about bringing back the moments of magic, and romance, and love. Even if you’re not living with someone right now, you can use these ideas to make sure your long-distance situation stays vibrant and alive. Your situation may be different, but the psychology is the same.
Thinking of you, friend.
Matt
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello and welcome back to the Love Life podcast with your host Stephen Hussey, |
| 0:27.4 | and that man is I, or that man is me. I'm not not sure of the exact grammar there. Hello, one and all. |
| 0:37.7 | So on this most splendid of days, we are talking about what it takes to keep romance with the person |
| 0:46.5 | you live with. That is of course assuming that the person you live with is someone you are |
| 0:52.1 | romancing, you are actually in a relationship with or courting perhaps or perhaps in some |
| 0:59.0 | various in-between stage. It's no secret that we are living in strange times in 2020 with the |
| 1:06.9 | ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Lots of people are spending a lot of time at home and in different stages |
| 1:15.3 | of their romantic life. Of course we've talked in previous episodes about being single and trying |
| 1:21.5 | all the various ways to still put yourself out there and date whether it's through Skype, |
| 1:25.3 | whether it's through meeting someone on Zoom and watching a movie or if it's Tinder and swiping |
| 1:30.9 | on dating apps and all that stuff. But there's also a whole bunch of people who were already |
| 1:36.9 | been in relationships or the were dating someone when this all started. And for those people, |
| 1:44.8 | this kind of a situation where maybe you move things much quicker than they were before and |
| 1:53.7 | maybe you decided to quarantine with someone and spend that time and lock down together. I think |
| 1:59.3 | the New Yorker or was it the New York Times? One of those ran a piece about this about how certain |
| 2:05.1 | people were, you know, it was a thing to say, do you want to do you want to quarantine together? |
| 2:10.3 | Like do you want to come and move some of your stuff in, bring a bag over and stay here for |
| 2:14.9 | quite a while and isolate with me? Now for some people of course they've been in a couple for a |
| 2:21.1 | year, two years longer and they've got this other thing where they've already been with someone |
| 2:26.8 | a while. But now you're finding your together like 24 hours of the day. Whereas before you might |
| 2:34.1 | have had all this time to go off and have your own little adventures at work and go do stuff with |
| 2:39.8 | your friends on the weekend and go explore things and come back together with your partner and share |
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