Quarantine Relationship Problems | What’s Your Coping Style?

Today’s video is about dealing with relationship problems in this period of quarantine and social distancing. This is based on a question from Claire.

Remember everyone is affected by this pandemic. We’re all hurting, so none of us are operating at our best right now and we all handle stress in different ways.

The stress of this pandemic makes us fall back to our native coping mechanisms whatever those are. These native coping mechanisms can create friction in your relationships as you spend more time together.

What do you do about this? First you pick your battles. You only want to deal the most pressing issues. Now is not the time to fix your relationship or your partner.

Next you want to create some personal time away. This can give you some sense of control of having your own time and space. If you have a small home or an apartment, find some part of your home or even outside as a place where you can go and be alone. Schedule that alone time so that people in your home can respect your space. If there’s nowhere to go without being around someone, wear headphones as a makeshift way to tune out.

Lastly you want to look at how you’re coping with this crisis. You can’t change other people, but you can work on yourself. Here are 4 common ways of thinking and coping. There’s active coping, surrender, passive coping and overcontrol. Active coping and surrender are adaptive or helpful and passive coping and overcontrol are maladaptive or unhelpful. Do some self-reflection to see what your coping style is and take steps to engage in adaptive coping.

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By: Dr. Tracey Marks
Title: Quarantine Relationship Problems | What’s Your Coping Style?
Sourced From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44tmAYGcS0