Honey, I’m (always) home! If you live with a partner or a roommate, coronavirus quarantine isn’t just about managing your own needs and anxieties. It’s about finding a way to coexist with someone and all of their needs and anxieties every minute of every day in a confined space for an undisclosed amount of time. If you think that should be easy because you already live together and love one another, you’re wrong and you know it.

There would be no escape from the squabbles, for one thing, whether they’re about toothpaste or President Trump. The experience would be stressful and taxing and maybe even traumatic. If you do end up quarantined due to the spread of Covid-19, the extended period of isolated-yet-never-alone confinement you’d be facing has more in common with shipping out to an Antarctic research station, a submarine, or the International Space Station than it does with your domestic daily grind. If you want to come out of it with your relationships and sanity intact, it’s time to start preparing for your mission.