About this episode
If you, like many of us, are bunkered down in your homes right now, during the period of social distancing and isolation you may be facing a lot more time with your partner than usual. And if you’re human…that can mean sharing a range of different emotions that you don’t usually experience together. For some couples that could bring you closer together, and others.. can tear you apart. Even the strongest of couples would be tested right now.In China, where they are now coming out of long periods of isolation from the outside world, there has been a reported spike in couples filing for divorce, indicating at their time together seriously amplified friction!New words like Covid-divorces and Coronababies are being spread around the web and it looks like it is break or make time for many of us!I thought I’d get an experts in to help us before we all end up at each other!Isiah McKimmie Couples is a sex Therapist & Coach, with a masters degree in relational psychotherapy, and Science of Medicine in Sexual Health, as well as a post grad diploma in sexology. She is also the host of a podcast called Wholehearted and is committed to loving relationships, deep intimacy and whole-hearted sex, and she’s here to give us some practical tips so we can use this time to strengthen our relationships, rather than tear them apart. Link to online couples program: https://isiah-mckimmie.ck.page/acd0c670bd // Keen to travel with EXPLORE WORLDWIDE? **Click the following link to save 20% on Explore’s most popular small group European adventures: ** 20% off your European holiday here - **Offer available from 4th - 25th September, 2025 // See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.