McKensey and Co. published a report recently that stated that five years of digital transformation over many sectors has been condensed over the last eight weeks.

Do you think your mother would have ever taken the time to learn how to use Zoom if she hadn’t been forced to by fear of becoming totally isolated from her friends and family? Would your grandmother have learned how to bank online? Did you father really ask if he should cut the cable and get Peacock and HBO Max instead?

In the same vein, the COVID-19 lockdown, which has forced my husband and I to hunker down 24/7 since early March, has accelerated my personal growth and transformation and turned me from an edgy and excitable, partner into a gentler, patient and less judgmental spouse. Adapting to the situation — no longer can I slam the door and storm out — I’ve had to leave some of my most resistant character flaws on the doorstep.

It’s not that I haven’t tried to change the way I function in an intimate relationship over the years. I’ve gone to therapy, learned how to meditate therapy

I have been changing how I interact with my beloved during a a time when, according to a Thrive Global poll of 8,000 individuals, 82% of respondents claim the pandemic has negatively impacted their stress more than any event in history.

everything accelerated mental health crisis – thrive Global poll of 8000 people 82% said the pandemic has had a more negative impact on their stress than any event in their history — online banking –

Author(s)

  • Andréa R. Vaucher

    Journalist, Author, Media Pro

    Andréa R.Vaucher has been writing about media, the arts, style, travel and spirituality for over two decades. She began as a film critic at the LA Weekly, was a founding editor of Venice Magazine, and was the Paris bureau chief and European correspondent for Variety. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times, Tricycle, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, among other publications. In 2013, she won the Visit California Eureka Award for her Huffington Post digital feature, “Los Angeles to San Francisco: From Goat Cheese to Gaultier.” Ms. Vaucher is the author of Muses from Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists and Art (Grove Press), the first book to explore the effect of the AIDS crisis on the international art community.  She is currently finishing a novel, Venice/Venice. She divides her time between Santa Monica and Idyllwild, CA, where she regularly disconnects in her vintage cabin in the wilderness.