These couples who live apart containment

"I don't care, you take three fines and come back!" Here is the warm message that Marion, 34, sent to her husband Vincent. After a week of confinement. If it were necessary to defend this incitement to break the law in court, Marion would have four good excuses: their children, aged 2 to 7 years. When the closure of the schools was announced, she took them to Brittany, to the family home. Since then, Marion has discovered the joys of single parenting at the same time as those of telework. So yes, obviously she misses her husband. But she knows that the case is folded. He cannot run his business remotely.

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For long-term couples, the separation from confinement, if it is rarely voluntary - those who are married have committed themselves to “a community of life” - is less painful than for young lovebirds. They know that Anatole France's warning, "there is no love that resists absence", does not

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