Sunday, May 31, 2020

How Not to Screw Up Your Relationship When You’re Spending All Your Time Together

 
 
You say, "Arguing over the last powdered doughnut is petty." I say, "You're sleeping on the couch tonight."
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How Not to F*ck Up Your Relationship When You're Spending All Your Time Together
 
So, the COVID-19 pandemic has left you hunkered down in close quarters with your significant other. Congrats, this makes you one of the 48 percent of Cosmo readers riding it out with their partner. Sure, on paper, it seems sexy: You and your S.O. can finally see what "afternoon delight" is all about and make time for those role-play scenarios that require lots of free hours and old Halloween costumes.

But after a few days of bickering in your jammies about your boyfriend's annoying conference call voice—and then not having sex because of said conference call voice— you're probably thinking: Is there any way to get out of this nightmare with my relationship still intact?

"It may seem that we're fighting or experiencing tension because we're living in close quarters, which could be part of the problem, but the distress of the pandemic itself is also taking its toll—physically, emotionally, and financially—on almost everyone across the globe," says Jess O'Reilly, PhD, Astroglide's resident sexologist.

But hey, just because the world might feel like it's erupting all around you doesn't mean your relationship has to go to shit.

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