The coronavirus process, which deeply affects our lives and can lead to very traumatic consequences, has caused significant changes in the daily lives of individuals. Plans such as restricting many of our routines, closing schools and businesses, moving work to home and implementing quarantine were implemented to control the epidemic. Although these measures are very important to prevent the epidemic, the quarantine process negatively affects people's mental health. This situation continues to negatively affect both our social and family relationships.
For example, before the pandemic, working women and men had jobs and social lives that they went to regularly every day. There were schools where school children went every day, an environment where they socialized and played games. There were also environments where housewives went about their daily routines, drinking coffee and chatting with their friends. However, with the virus, changes occurred in the family and social environment. Changing responsibilities and roles as a result of these sudden and unexpected situations deeply affected relationships.
Partner Relationships
We have relationships with our partners, with whom we share a large part of our daily lives, or with whom we are never in the same house. We stay together for longer periods of time, or we can only meet with communication devices in separate homes, away from each other. This process pushes us to different ways of communication than before, whether we are far or close to our partner. Therefore, difficulties may occur in relationships.
You may be having arguments about responsibilities at home and having difficulty communicating with your partner. Feeling that most of the household chores are your responsibility can cause you to become angry with your partner. Difficulties in adapting to the current situation are factors that negatively affect communication. Communication difficulties can manifest themselves in different ways, such as frequent arguments, outbursts of anger, and resentment. You may think that your personal space is being invaded and you may feel overwhelmed by being in the same environment all the time. These mood fluctuations between partners also affect their sexual lives. It is quite normal for partners to feel reluctant and unenthusiastic. This situation is related It may cause them to think that the spell within them has been broken. On the other hand, partners' different concerns about the pandemic and not knowing how long the process will continue like this increases the anxiety between couples.
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You can create your own space in the house where you can be alone, which is good for you whenever you wish. You can engage in an activity and spare quality time for yourself.
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You can share the responsibilities at home fairly with your partner and work together. By forming a union, you can make tasks such as cleaning and cooking fun.
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In addition to individual activities, you can create common pursuits such as watching movies, doing puzzles, and exercising. Time spent together helps keep the relationship in balance and strengthens the emotional bond between partners.
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Remembering the good memories you had with your partner, going through the archives, the things that keep you together and Remembering the difficulties you have overcome and sharing them with your partner strengthens communication.
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It is normal for partners to differ in sexual desire during this period. situation. In such cases, partners should listen to each other, try to understand each other and respect each other.
Parent – Child Relationships
During the pandemic, children's closest social circle is their family. However, staying at home with children is a very troublesome and painful process for families. In addition to providing personal care, not being able to provide the social environment they really need can cause tension between parents and children. In this process, although parents working from home use tablets and phones, which have a silencing effect on children, and continuing online education helps parents, it causes children's screen time to increase. On the other hand, even with the pandemic, terms such as social distance, isolation and quarantine have entered the lives of children that they have never heard of before. Children's anxiety levels may increase in the face of this unfamiliar situation. Differences experienced by parents Healthy management is very important. Children learn to cope with stress by taking their parents as models, just as they learn behaviors and habits.
During this period, children experience fear of being alone, fear of the dark, outbursts of anger, dependence on parents, baby-like behavior, restlessness, nightmares, sleep. Stress symptoms such as problems and not fulfilling the responsibilities given by the school may be observed.
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You can turn this situation into an opportunity to spend quality time with your children. Being planned and using your time well is very important. Organizing game and activity hours is the most enjoyable way to stay in touch with the child.
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Long forced time spent at home may lead to undesirable behavior in children. Being disciplined can become quite difficult. In such cases, a fun activity to do as a family will distract children from their grumpy behavior.
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Arguments are inevitable between siblings who stay in the same house for a long time. . One should allocate equal time to each of them and be impartial towards the children.
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It is a good method to explain to children why you are at home and give them information about the pandemic appropriate to their development level. While the information they acquire helps to reduce their fear levels, they establish effective communication with the parents.
Social Relations
At home during long quarantine periods. Being confined and restricting the freedom to go out and move around brings with it social effects as well as psychological effects. Social relations are significantly affected in cultures that like us to spend time together, hug, sit and drink coffee, eat with friends and share. Although not spending time together during this period may be due to restrictions, it may be perceived differently. People may act more fragile towards each other.
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You can use video calls more often instead of messaging. Messaging often does not convey emotions to the other party and can sometimes lead to misunderstandings. Video call communication It makes it healthy.
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You can organize video coffee hours, choose a book and discuss it. In this way, we contribute to our relationships even if we are far away.
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