Staying at home due to COVID-19: a disaster or an opportunity?(Part Two)

Another benefit of staying at home is that we have more time to spend with our beloved ones. To be clear, I don’t intend to say something about fathers being able to play with their kids or mothers teaching children to bake cookies, etc.. What stands out for me the most is that by being stuck together we now have an invaluable opportunity to re-learn things we thought we knew about our families and relationships. One of my friends just experienced a family crisis that she herself later joked about as “live melodrama”. Before COVID-19, she had a happy love life with her husband, or so she thought, until the pandemic struck and they both had to work from home. In the first month, life was as sweet as <s>in</s> a honey jar. “This is like a honeymoon with no need to go anywhere”, she said. I was happy for her since I knew they were always so busy with their work and <s>really</s> thus never really had <s>didn’t have</s> time to enjoy life. But one night, she cried into her phone telling me that she wanted to divorce him. I couldn’t be more shocked and would <s>definitely</s> not have taken it seriously if there was not that emotional outburst. She said that she just found out how terrible he was with all those annoying habits of his, and that how much she felt depressed every time they argued fiercely over small, meaningless chores. If that was the case, I don’t think that things were going any south between them. In fact, I believe it is a great chance for them to rebuild their relationship by really getting to know each other, and have serious talks about their past, present <s>presence</s> and future. If things work out at last, they will be happier and satisfied with their marriage and themselves. But even if they decided to divorce after sincere deep conversations, I believe they were doing this out of good reasons and for the best of themselves.

(p.s. I just found out that there is a restriction on the length of the article. So I will divide my article into three parts and above is the second one. To be continued.)