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When I was three or four years old, I walked in on my parents making love. I’m unclear on the precise time frame because traumatic memory is hard to pinpoint. I only know it was before my younger sister was born. My mother, who had explained to me where babies came from in general terms, called out to me as I stood in their bedroom doorway, “Your father and I are trying to make you a younger brother or sister. Go back to bed, sweetheart.
We weren’t unhappy with our relationship, exactly. In a lot of ways, I felt closer to him emotionally than I ever had before, having learned that I could be stranded with this person and my children on the desert island of our home and still feel in love with him even after the rescue ships arrived. Still, there are different forms of closeness, and COVID-19 hadn’t affected all of them in the same way.
I reached out to the social psychologist Rhonda Balzarini, an associate professor at Texas State University and a member of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Balzarinihad been working with a group of social psychologists from around the country on a far-reaching research initiative called.
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