ELIZABETHTON — A group of Carter County leaders and regional education administrators spent Tuesday afternoon showing Gov. Bill Lee the inside of a 50-year-old building they hope to transform into
ELIZABETHTON — A group of Carter County leaders and regional education administrators spent Tuesday afternoon showing Gov. Bill Lee the inside of a 50-year-old building they hope to transform into
The center will be dedicated to bringing nursing, business, liberal arts, education and other academic and support programs together to increase the pipeline of opportunity and augment the supply of
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As a relationship therapist, I can tell you firsthand that what you suspect or perhaps experienced yourself is true: The pandemic has upended every aspect of most couples’ lives. Many are forced to coexist 24/7 in small spaces and with children constantly underfoot. Add to that ongoing climate change, political turmoil, and reckonings with systemic racism, and the result is a mountain of stressors that drastically tested the limits of even the most devoted couples’ ability to navigate “for better or for worse.”
But you don’t have to take it from me. Here, 15 couples divulge how 2020 has transformed their relationships from the couple who willed one another to survive when both were infected with COVID-19 to the interracial couple whose participation in protest marches led to increasingly candid dialogues about racism to the queer couple who impulsively decided to quarantine together. Keep reading for their hard-fought lessons learned.