Last night, I attended a group dinner with friends inside of a restaurant. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, this would not have been a groundbreaking experience worthy of a special newsletter to our Verywell Mind readers. But today, as we navigate through this "return to normalcy" transition, it feels like a major milestone.
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Caring for Your Mental Health in the Return to Normalcy | | Every Wednesday throughout Mental Health Awareness Month, our editors will share insights from our new "Return to Normalcy" collection. The theme of this week is nurturing your relationships. As COVID-19 vaccinations roll out and restrictions are lifted, we're in a state of transition that may impact your mental health in many ways. Verywell Mind is committed to guiding you through this uncertain time with helpful, trustworthy content that will support you no matter what you're feeling. | | | When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, that date became our very own—much less funny—version of Groundhog Day, the classic time loop rom-com. Between working from home, travel limitations, and the general stay-at-home orders that followed, it felt for a long time like the calendar never really flipped to March 12.
And if, like me, you lived with your spouse or partner through it all, there are surely some mixed feelings about this memorable relationship experience as the country reopens and we return to a state of relative normalcy.
We had to work to create genuinely new experiences and new answers to "How was your day?" Whether it meant trying unique recipes or exercising together while gyms were closed, we had to cherish these small relationship "wins" wherever we could find them.
Through it all, spending this unprecedented crisis together demanded the kind of emotional availability and openness that doesn't come naturally to everyone. And now comes the difficult part—incorporating the hard-earned lessons of the pandemic into our relationship once things are back to normal, and figuring out what normal even means anymore.
As much as we all would like to forget the past 14 months, everything that we did to sustain our relationships in that time has the power to make us better partners and more aspirational versions of ourselves, whether you are coming out of the pandemic single, partnered, or married. | | | | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Verywell Fit newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. | | A DOTDASH BRAND 28 Liberty Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10005 | | | | | | | 
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