GOALS: Strong health with strong relationships

Goals: Strong social relationship during pandemic

The pandemic is continuously creating a big impact on our lives, including our interpersonal relationships in our families, homes, schools and workplaces. As we attempt to keep each other safe, uncountable us have lost some, although not all, of our normal ways of seeing others.

It's clear that the pandemic change lots of things making it hard to adapt during this kind of situation. Regardless of that it is time to develop new habits and routines tailored to the pandemic. It is time to create better, more long-lasting choices that may keep us healthier — and happier as well to connect with others.

Losing face-to-face contact with people we cared about, as well as being thrust into much closer contact than usual, is stressful, terrifying, or perhaps excruciating. These strains on our relationships are likely to be even harder to manage at a time as we are all managing our own ongoing uncertainty and concern about the pandemic.

As a result, it's worthwhile to be extra patient and understanding, both with each another and with ourselves. During this one of the difficult chapter of our life, it's also important to acknowledge additional measures to make our relationships stronger and try to cope better with some of the relationship issues that the COVID-19 pandemic causes.

For an instance, here are the top relationship-building suggestions from the Mental Health Foundations that may help in making a major difference:

• Give time

Make more time to connect with your friends and family.

• Be present

This means paying close attention to the people in your life and avoiding distractions such as your phone, work, or other interests.

• Listen

Genuinely listen to what people are saying and try to comprehend it while concentrating on their immediate needs.

• Allow yourself to be heard

Be honest about how you're feeling and allow others to hear and support you.

• Recognize unhealthy relationships

Unhealthy relationships can cause us to be unhappy. Recognizing this can assist us in moving forward and finding solutions. Remember that these restrictions will be lifted eventually, but in the meanwhile, we will be physically closer to certain people and further away from others.

To get through this, we must all discuss, listen, and care for each other and ourselves, building on what unites us and what we want to see in the future.