How to Reconnect with Your Partner

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A couple try a practice to bring more excitement and passion into their relationship, even while sheltering-in-place.

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0:00.0	Climate change is going to require collective action.
0:04.0	But how can individual actions make a difference?
0:07.0	On a new episode of Life Kit, we're walking you through
0:09.0	what sort of climate
0:15.0	week,
0:18.0	week, where ever you get true of a lot of couples where
0:30.0	you're discovering all of the space that you guys are taking up in each other's
0:35.4	lives now is like tripled because neither of you were going out to go to work or
0:39.9	whatnot and so you have to find other things to do. We were working six days a week
0:45.2	sheltering in place so we were at each other's throats for a little bit.
0:50.1	Yeah and I will say that in this moment a lot of us are going to like our happy place and I found you like you're constantly on your phone.
0:59.0	I mean you know I'm definitely someone who zones out.
1:02.0	Yeah, if you're not doing that or you are doing that and
1:04.3	then you're listening to your World War One podcast because you are a 68 year old
1:08.3	man. Yep. And I found like I was third rank on all those.
1:15.0	Like I was third tier.
1:17.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:18.0	You know, relaxing activity one, phone game, relaxing activity two,
1:21.0	podcast, relaxing activity three, maybe Francesca.
1:24.0	Many of us are sheltering in place with our partners, wives, and husbands, and that can really help, or not.
1:34.6	Emotional challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic can take a toll even on the strongest
1:38.7	relationships.
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