# Might people's marriages break up before this is over **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-peoples-marriages-break-up-before-this-is-over/850792 "2020-04-01T09:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-peoples-marriages-break-up-before-this-is-over/850792/61 "2020-04-08T12:35:16Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > On last weekend’s ‘special edition’ of Live PD, they talked to a lot of departments (instead of riding with them) most, but not quite all, of them reported a lot more calls for domestic issues. As people get more and more annoyed spending so much time not just together, but cooped up inside the house, tempers flare, people drink, things get said and suddenly someone is throwing a chair or yelling loud enough for the neighbors to hear. I don’t think this is a fair description of how DV works, especially in this situation. I don’t think we are seeing “novel” DV, normally non-violent people pushed to the edge. It’s more that victims of DV learn techniques to minimize/deescalate-they know when to leave, or to get the abuser out of the house, or invite people over-and they can’t use those techniques. Past that, if you are a person whole already deals with frustration and lack of control by physically lashing out, well, this is a time of extraordinary frustration and lack of control for everyone. There’s also the increased opportunity for sexual abuse. I worry a lot about some of my students. Over the years, I’ve read so many college essays that talked about “I learned not to go home” or “school was important because it gave me an excuse not to go home” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-peoples-marriages-break-up-before-this-is-over/850792.md?page=3)