We need some precautions for those with infected, live-in partners. Because they’re just stuck. Here are ways to try to remain healthy if your partner gets Coronavirus.
It should always feel like your partner wants to do the best job taking care of you aka the most thorough. It shouldn’t feel like he’s just trying to get it over with—this caretaker task—so he can get back to his life. So, for example, if you ask him to get you soup, he shouldn’t come back four minutes later because he just went to the liquor store and got the grossest can of soup, so he wouldn’t have to drive to the place with the good stuff.
You’ll have bouts of good days that last for weeks or even months—these bouts give you false hope that maybe your partner is cured. But chronic means chronic, and it can be devastating to get your hopes up like that only to have symptoms come back (which they will).
When you’re sick, the first few bowls of chicken noodle soup are comforting, but the following dozen becomes at best boring and at worst nauseating. Sometime in the history of colds, we got the idea that you could basically just have chicken noodle soup and toast (if you’re lucky) when you’re sick but it’s not […]