Staying Close When You Can’t Be Together

Maintaining friendships when you can’t be together isn’t easy. Now, thanks to a pandemic and nationwide shutdown, all our friendships feel long distance.

Crusted cereal bowls. Kitchen counter desks. Bed sheet forts just out of conference call camera view…How do we keep up working with kids at home?

Even if you’ve never done this sort of thing before, you can trust your instincts about what your child needs. No one knows your child like you do.

As the coronavirus claims lives, we wonder how to grieve from a distance. Usually we find comfort in community. What do you do when you face death alone?

Quarantines, social distancing and health hypervigilance have us out of our routines and comfort zones, causing a host of emotions erupting in marriage.

Being shut-in during the pandemic only intensifies the anxiety we feel. Here are a few tips on how to reduce stress while you’re stuck at home.

There are many lessons I’ve gathered on the journey of grief, and one of them is this: The heartache of losing a spouse lasts a lifetime.

Since the coronavirus quarantine hijacked our lives, I feel frazzled. It’s hard to focus on anything when everything is on me in this new normal.

You can’t know everything that’s going to happen in marriage, but you can decide ahead of time how to handle it with the promise in your vows: I choose us.

I worry about blended families in quarantine where emotions are being processed in a place that doesn’t feel safe. For stepchildren and stepparents alike.

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, being sick and tired together sucks the fondness right out. But this quarantine means we’re stuck in this together.

Finding patience at home is one of the hardest parts of this quarantine life. My impatience grows as my cabin fever increases.

We know. The idea of your family having a service for Easter can feel weird and even sad. But this Easter at home can still be meaningful, memorable.

Often, we ask ourselves “How do I get my spouse to do things my way?” Yet arguments about the “right way” are rarely about what they seem.

Any semblance of date night just got drop-kicked out the door. But with a little commitment you can still make time together. 10 date-ins get you started.

The threat of COVID-19 has forced us to face the fear of death. It has become real: human life is fragile. But you can control the fear.

As COVID-19 shutdowns continued, we realized ongoing conversations with our kids were a must. But first, we needed to talk to each other.

This time of being quarantined is challenging! One surprising aspect might be how hard it is to adjust to being together 24/7.