Good Lifestyle

Quarantine could be a rather new development in Europe and the US, but China has been struggling with this since last year and the people there have been trapped at home for a while. Many think this will produce a blast of birth rates for the country, because if you can't leave home, you might be busy, or spend free time to make a number of babies. But the reality seems far from optimistic words.

Many unmarried couples decide to separate and husband and wife pairs plan to divorce as soon as possible. Trapped at home with your partner 24/7 for more than a month is not an easy thing for many people. With the amount of time you have and the lack of distraction, people began to open the dark sides, their various bad habits and even some of the secrets were hidden.

It turns out you can live with someone for years, but because you both work all the time and only meet each other for some time, you just deal with yourself at most time. But since you really stuck together for days, finally your original nature unfolds.

Some women found their partner turned affair, others found unconnected differences that were previously able to overcome. You can say that people only spend an unusual amount of time in a room covered with their partners and cause chaotic thoughts that continue to accumulate at home. But on the other hand, you really spend years with someone who doesn't even get along with you for a month?

There have been many conversations on Chinese forums about the gallery of configant neighbors, fighting and crying, but at the same time, some people complain that even though they have lived at home with a couple for more than a month, the fact they rarely talk, even just for 10 seconds every day. Self isolation is a hard thing, no matter your perspective in this matter. If you are trapped alone, you may feel lonely and miss social interactions, on the other hand, realize if you rarely talk to your partner and still feel lonely even when you are both trapped together for weeks, it sounds more sad.

Some people say if quarantine for them can be described like living in a pressure pan. You are fully imprisoned in a small space with all of your "demons" and your heart, and there are other people with emotional burden and their own strange habits. At first you might think if everything will run well, but then you begin to feel disturbed by certain things, but don't want to let it be an argument. However, it looks like you have no way out of this situation, so it's better not to start a conflict, as a result the pressure continues to accumulate, until one day you both lose patience and immediately explode into the biggest battle in the history of your relations. And that's the reason why cities in China have encountered a massive increase in a divorce application.

A marital affairs office in Dazhou, Sichuan Province in Western-Power China has received more than 300 divorce requests in the past two months. Other cities are forced to limit the number of divorce requests they will receive every day, it could be to prevent people from making such drastic decisions, but this has not yet slowed the phenomenon in the community. They only wait for the next date available, people are actually in a queue to divorce.

Is this something we can learn for the future or is it just a social experiment that dismantles the vanity from marriage institutions and the dark side of social isolation? It's still hard to be concluded at this time. Some say that a sharp increase in divorce may be simply because people feel depressed and want an easy way to get out of the situation, while others say if quarantine is a resurrection of real needs and human life goals. So which one is right? Only time will answer it.