We measure the perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on romantic relationships in the United States. We contrast Family Stress theories emphasizing potential harms of the pandemic with Family Resilience Theory suggesting that crises can lead couples to build meaning and strengthen their relationships. We examine closed-ended and open-ended questions about relationship responses to the pandemic from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surveys from 2017, 2020 and 2022. We analyze potential correlates of relationship outcomes including education, children at home, gender, time spent together and pre-pandemic relationship quality. Subjects were three times as likely to describe pandemic relationship benefits compared to harms. Couples in high quality relationships were especially resilient to pandemic stresses, and derived benefits from more time together. Couples made meaning out of the pandemic and used the normalcy of their domestic situations to make a common front against an external threat.

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我们衡量了 COVID-19 大流行对美国浪漫关系的感知影响。我们将强调流行病潜在危害的家庭压力理论与认为危机可以引导夫妻建立意义并加强关系的家庭复原力理论进行了对比。我们从 2017 年、2020 年和 2022 年的夫妻如何见面和相处的调查中研究了有关对大流行的关系反应的封闭式和开放式问题。我们分析了关系结果的潜在相关性，包括教育、在家孩子、性别、花费的时间在一起和大流行前的关系质量。受试者描述流行病关系的好处的可能性是其危害的三倍。处于高质量关系中的夫妻对流行病压力特别有抵抗力，并从更多的相处时间中获益。夫妻们从疫情中汲取意义，并利用国内局势的正常状态，结成共同阵线来应对外部威胁。

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