When the world collapses, simple things are important

The first thing we are looking for in difficult moments is support. Loud words do not always need. Often there is enough gaze, touches, silent presence nearby. It is important for a person to know: you are here. You hear. You are not afraid of his tears, panic or powerlessness. Sometimes just such silence nearby becomes stronger than a thousand comforts.

Crisis as an amplifier of feelings

Hard events can make relations even deeper. When you go through pain together, there is a special proximity that cannot be created on ordinary days. Partners learn to trust, be patient, attentive. They open to each other not only in joy, but also in weakness - and this is one of the most intimate forms of love.

But not everything is so simple

Sometimes the crisis, on the contrary, exposes weaknesses in pairs. Someone goes into their own, someone is angry, someone is losing strength to support. At such moments, it is easy to fall into alienation, to start reproaching each other, to wait for the perfect reaction from the partner, forgetting that he is also worried. Support is not perfect, but alive and sincere.

How to stay together when hard

It is important to say. Even if it is difficult to choose words. To voice fear, fatigue, anger, powerlessness. Do not hide behind "I'm fine", if not so. And hearing another is not to argue, not to correct, but simply to be near. General rituals - a cup of tea, walk, evening film - can return the feeling of stability in an unstable world.

Love is not protection from pain. But it can be light in darkness.
A partner nearby is not the one who decides everything for us. And the one who does not let go of the hand when everything collapses. And sometimes, having survived the storm together, the couple becomes stronger, wiser and closer than it was before it.