One more sequel: the COVID-19 It has broken and attacked the most wonderful part of the human being, which is their social relationship and physical bonds. And that’s how the pandemic fractured the love ties of the Mexican
Today hugging, visiting someone, even shaking hands, you reflect on it before, we have stopped doing it for fear of getting sick. This is how the pandemic fractured the love ties of the Mexican
Urges to repair the damage that violence and the pandemic have done to love
This was stated by Verónica Montes de Oca Zavala, from the Institute of Social Research (IIS). Which she expressed that she urges to repair the damage that violence and the pandemic have done to love, regarding the commemoration of February 14.
“We have lost that empathy and sensitivity for others, because we focus all our energy on non-illness, not even on health. We are in the perspective of survival”, she stressed.
The university sociologist and demographer indicated that even though this Day of Love and Friendship is projected as reactivating the economy, “I would like to activate ideas. As well as the reflections and thinking that this day can be a day of culture of peace, of love with nature and with other human beings”.
First of all, freedom must be appealed to.
“Let’s see much beyond commercial love, let’s think about affective ties because within homes there is violence. People are tired, our mental health is exhausted and obviously we are looking at ourselves in a grid every day, ”he indicated.
The also former president of the Latin American Population Association (ALAP) assured that above all, freedom should be appealed to. To break with that reproduction of romantic love, submissive and subordinate, which is propitiated from the same commercial logic.
There has been a lot of isolation towards older people
In Mexico, according to data from the 2020 Population and Housing Census, 38 percent of people aged 15 and over are married. In addition, 30 percent are single and 20 percent live in a free union.
INEGI information shows that in terms of marriage, in 2019 there were 504 thousand 923 legal marriages. Of these, 501,327 were from opposite-sex couples, and 3,596 were from same-sex couples.
However, between 2000 and 2019, the divorce-marriage ratio almost quintupled, going from seven to 32 divorces per hundred marriages. In addition, the trajectory over time indicates that from 2000 to 2020, the percentage of the married population has decreased from 49 to 38 percent, in contrast to the population in a free union, which went from 11 to 20 percent. Likewise, more than 50 percent of Mexican women between the ages of 20 and 24 are single.
There has been a lot of isolation towards older people, we forget to call them, be with them, support them, this is a reflection of lack of love and is part of this logic of survival and fear of this stage; they are living a loneliness that is not necessarily chosen but is imposed by the dynamics of the pandemic.
Love; a solitude or a chosen accompaniment
This was indicated by the also coordinator of the Interdisciplinary University Seminar on Aging and Old Age. Which showed that many older people in their chosen loneliness took advantage of the time to love themselves. “They recovered the time for their music, their space to read. They decided it and that seemed to me a resilient way, there were chat groups that set up clubs to monitor each other as a loving follow-up.
Other people, they met again, they had not seen each other for many years, ex-boyfriends, ex-partners, and even decided to get together, they no longer go out, but they are together. It is a solitude or a chosen accompaniment, he concluded.
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