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As it gets colder, and harder to gather outdoors, some of Kenzie Billings’ conversations with her loved ones are feeling a bit more fraught.
“It’s felt frustrating at times. You know, you can feel energy from people in terms of wanting to be together,” the 29-year-old from Portland, Ore., says.
Her sister, who is pregnant, has been taking social distancing rules very seriously, she says, but others in the family are more eager to get together indoors. And she has found it especially hard to navigate these negotiations without being face-to-face.
As it gets colder, and harder to gather outdoors, some of Kenzie Billings conversations with her loved ones are feeling a bit more fraught. It s felt frustrating at times. You know, you can feel energy from people in terms of wanting to be together, she said.
A push and pull of competing concerns
Billings, 29, lives in Portland, Oregon. Her pregnant sister has been taking social distancing rules very seriously, she said, but others in the family are more eager to get together indoors.
She said it s especially hard to navigate these negotiations without being face to face. So there s a lot of push and pull there in terms of, Okay, where are my boundaries? And then exerting those boundaries is actually really hard, with the people that you love, Billings said.
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A Stay Home sign is taped to a driver s vehicle as she passes Christmas lights during a car caravan of nurses calling for people to remain home amid a coronavirus surge last month in El Paso, Texas.
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As it gets colder, and harder to gather outdoors, some of Kenzie Billings conversations with her loved ones are feeling a bit more fraught. It s felt frustrating at times. You know, you can feel energy from people in terms of wanting to be together, the 29-year-old from Portland, Ore., says.
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A Stay Home sign is taped to a driver s vehicle as she passes Christmas lights during a car caravan of nurses calling for people to remain home amid a coronavirus surge last month in El Paso, Texas. Mario Tama/Getty Images
As it gets colder, and harder to gather outdoors, some of Kenzie Billings conversations with her loved ones are feeling a bit more fraught. It s felt frustrating at times. You know, you can feel energy from people in terms of wanting to be together, the 29-year-old from Portland, Ore., says.