Colucci: You talked a little bit earlier when I was asking you the question like parents being stuck at home – you touched a bit on the relationships and obviously in your expertise, you do a lot of this in sex and relationship therapy. So maybe two-fold on this question is – one, just any additional thoughts you have for couples that are spending more time together working at home, they're, they're in each other's space a lot more than they used to be. They might've had that 8 or 9 hours separate each work day to be separate. And then maybe a second layer to that is people that maybe just starting relationships that are single and are still kind of interested in dating. Any thoughts for them in general about kind of managing love and relationships during this time?
Pere: Yeah, like I mentioned, being really deliberate and intentional in talking with your partner about how to manage your time together. You’re shifting your relationship. It's not affecting everyone this way, but a lot of couples are affected. It's a different dynamic to be spending this kind of time and this amount of time together. So really having open lines of communication where you're talking about your feelings, your needs, you're making really clear requests of each other, not demands - but requests. Ask for things that you need. What's going to help you with your workday, what's going to help you with what you're experiencing spending more time with your partner now. They can't read your mind as well as they know you or as long as you've been together; they don't know what's happening with you and what you need until you let them know and make a really clear requests that they can say yes, no, or something in the middle too.
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