But then suddenly your watch history shows that SOMEBODY already blasted through the first four seasons that you’d been saving for “Couple time”.īetrayal is betrayal. We’d watch the new episodes when we had time together and DEFINITELY not watch them without each other. It’s not a problem for the bad shows, but for the good ones… What we all said was that we would only watch it together. (Pro tip: the notion to get it in there retroactively is not a great opener for renewing vows.) It does rise up the list a bit when you’re deep in a pandemic and you’ve already watched the rest of the internet. When you’re new and in love, it doesn’t seem important, never ascends to the altar offered nuptial promises.
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In the ever-expanding menu on how to screw up a relationship, there are greater sins than breaking the “We will watch this show together” oath.
I’m going for a walk.” Even if the sins of coping were small, the peril was real and the stakes were high. There’s no data to back this up, but here at the R2AK’s understaffed and yet to be formed Couples Counseling Division we have a theory: the pandemic made us all more binge-watchy, more drinky, more “Please get out of this room so I don’t stab you in the neck with this fork. For a while, nearly twice what it was in 2019. The early pandemic prediction of COVID causing more births and divorces turned out to be half right birth rates were down. TL DR: COVID, fork-based violence, *jazz hands*, sleeping in coffins, and Downton Abbey.Īfter two years of COVID, all the pressure cooker isolation has messed with everyone’s human-to-human baselines, waistlines, alcohol intake, and binge-watching tendencies.