You know, Jillian, we're so excited to have you on today. Would you, I would love for you to introduce yourself to our audience if you would make.

Yeah.

I'm Jillian Turecki and I'm a New York City-based relationship coach.

I've also been a yoga teacher for the last, wow, 17 years.

So yeah, that's me.

I've been in a, you in a long-term relationship.

It's been about four years now, and we've definitely been having a bit of a tough time.

What trends have you seen regarding difficulties and relationships since lockdown began?

And what common typical issues have been really amplified by this new reality of couples

being together 24-7?

Yeah.

So, well, the first thing that I would say is that usually the things that are amplified

during this COVID time are the things that existed before COVID.

But then this is actually like, it's

magnifying it. So it's, you know, I mean, and that's not to say that there are couples with

children and they are facing new realities that are actually causing problems, like a riff in the

relationship.

So it's not like everything existed pre-COVID.

But usually what's happening is just there's whatever communication issues or deficits

that the couple had pre-COVID, that is even getting like even more pronounced.

And stress is the thing that kills relationships

and it's how each person is relating to stress and therefore and then maybe they're not even

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