{"id":98425,"date":"2020-05-06T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/?p=98425"},"modified":"2020-05-06T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:50:54","slug":"what-has-quarantine-hell-taught-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/articles\/topics\/life-issues\/challenges\/what-has-quarantine-hell-taught-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Has “Quarantine Hell” Taught us?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A month and a half ago, life moved along at a predictable pace. Your kids had school and extracurricular demands\u2014along with a demanding list of social and emotional expectations.<\/p>\n

The Dow was behaving like it was on crack. Which made the marketplace feel like one huge slam dunk. Most businesses were winning without having to try hard.<\/p>\n

Church was on a roll, too. Children\u2019s programs, youth group meetings, mission trips, retreats, and small-group studies all took turns bouncing into each other.<\/p>\n

A month and a half ago, our homes were primarily houses where our families started and finished their days<\/a>. Parents and children did their best to have civilized relationships within parameters dictated by a consuming culture, antagonistic world views, and overscheduled lives.<\/p>\n

Married couples found their relationship defined far more by their role as parents and their work than as heart-connected lovers writing a love story.<\/p>\n

Then, out of nowhere, a microscopic virus with a symmetric network of suction cups and the ability to kill with a vengeance raced its way around the world, leaving massive death in its wake.<\/p>\n

When a quarantine orders you home … to stay<\/h2>\n

Equally out of nowhere, leaders of the largest and most powerful nations in the world agreed the best way to deal with this nasty threat was to bring the mainstream marketplace and life as we know it to a skidding halt.<\/p>\n

The response started with admonitions to wash hands 200 times a day and maintain social distance. But overnight, it morphed into orders to go home and stay home until you hear otherwise.<\/p>\n

And just like that<\/em>,<\/strong> the busy schedules, social demands, and ships-in-the-night relationships families accepted as normal were over. Now converted into a new “deal-with-the-ones-you\u2019re-stuck-with” dynamic that most families hadn\u2019t contended with for a couple of generations.<\/p>\n