Help Meredith with a story
Meanwhile, I'll be diving deep into our relationships.
Did everybody get divorced? Married? Have babies? Decide … no more babies?
In April of 2020, I did a story with the headline: '
This part of the story, where we talk about what might happen after the pandemic, is something I've been thinking about for the last five years.
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Her research showed that within a year after [Hurricane Hugo], there were more big decisions made in general. It wasn't just that people wanted to get divorced; they wanted to get married, have babies, make changes.
'When we consider that all three outcomes increased, the pattern of results suggests a fourth perspective, that a natural disaster mobilized people to take action,' she wrote when she published her research in the Journal of Family Psychology.
Basically, her take was that disasters (pandemics and other scary things) inspire people to change their whole lives — to do the things they've been waiting on.
In my community, this was true. My high school friend Stacie,
By the end of 2020, I had jumped on a dating app for the first time. Because … why not? A lot of people made moves.
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Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall were empty at 1:58 p.m. on March 25, 2020.
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Are you curious about divorce rates? How
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routine didn't change much because of the pandemic, you've probably been around people who altered their relationship values based on their own COVID experiences.
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