How to Protect Your Relationship From a Pandemic, With Divorce Attorney James J. Sexton
Being trapped with your significant other 24/7 is not a recipe for relationship success. That’s why we’re talking with divorce attorney James J. Sexton this week about how to save our marriage and avoid becoming a post-pandemic divorce boom statistic. Hear James talk about how couples can remind themselves of when they first fell in love and the best strategies for finding distance without losing touch.
James is the author of ” If you’re in my office, it was too late: Lawyers Guide to divorce , how to stay together,” recently, ” How to stay in love: the practical wisdom from an unexpected source” .
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Highlights from this week’s series
From an interview with James J. Sexton
About the amazing opportunity that quarantine with our partner gives:
[We] we really looked each other in the face. And it’s hard. I think this creates a different skill set. But I also think it gives us even more motivation to really get into the little things, because one of the main things that I have always believed in and continue to believe is that we quickly fall in love and fall out of love in a series of slow blackouts, small blackouts … And this is an opportunity for people to face certain things directly face to face.
How to find a place in the current period of imprisonment:
I know couples who purposely spend one evening a week and say, “I’m going to go upstairs and watch my shows, and you sit down and read, and we [are] going to spend some time apart because one of the nice things about a relationship is – this is sometimes longing for each other and the absence of each other constantly. So turn it on … We have the ability to tell our partner, “Hey, I love missing you. I like it when you do what you like, regardless of my preference. So let’s build this into our COVID quarantine life. Let’s create a time where we both go about our business. None of us are going to delve into this. We will see it as an act of love, not an act of isolation. ” And see how it feels.
For more advice from James on how to save your relationship during the pandemic, we recommend listening to the entire episode.
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