For Some, Alone Time Is Hard to Come By During COVID-19
For Some, Alone Time Is Hard to Come By During COVID-19
By Elizabeth Millard | July 22, 2020
Part of the difficulty is the misguided idea that when you love someone, you’d choose to spend all your time with that person, says psychotherapist Dana Dorfman, Ph.D., MSW. There’s a reason the old saying “absence makes the heart grow fonder” has endured. “Physical and emotional separations or boundaries are essential to healthy adult relationships,” she says. “While humans are social creatures who rely on relationships and connection for emotional survival, we also need time alone to think, nourish, and care for ourselves. That’s what replenishes our individuality.”
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