How are you staying in touch with people?

[petra]

It's been a little more difficult than usual being social. How's that going for you, and what kind of conversations are you missing having?

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[desireearmfeldt]

I am inviting friends for small group or one on one real time online hanging out -- kind of slowly as I think of folks or free time materializes. Have been going to my theatre group's online script reads and one (so far) online live roleplaying game. Talking to my parents on the phone more often than usual. I'm still running a couple of hobby group things that involve some regular communication.

Also, spouse and I are taking advantage of having fewer group social things & hobby meetings without each other to spend more quality time together. (Though he's showing unsurprising tendency to lose time sense and let work and non-work time bleed into each other even more than usual, which I'm trying to convince him to fight.)

[petra]

It sounds like you have a good spread of communication opportunities!

The bulwark my SO and I have implemented against work-time taking over everything is that we take a walk together at the end of his daily work. It doesn't necessarily help for the mental side of letting work bleed into things but it introduces a greater level of separation between work and non-work than he would otherwise have.

[desireearmfeldt]

We've been doing a similar thing with regular dinnertime 'date.'

[petra]

That makes very good sense.