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Here’s my advice, and what probably saved our marriage during our last renovation: find a board game cafe. That’s the whole recommendation.
I cannot tell you how many times we were too stressed out to speak to each other, too angry or exhausted to cook (at the time we even had a functioning kitchen), or just had to be out of the space that was stressing us out… So we’d go to the boardgame cafe and play games designed for two people (Jaipur, Odin’s Ravens, A Little Wordy, Boop, etc). We’d have a couple of drinks, eat dinner, and just play and laugh. We’ve ended up buying most of those games and still pull them out when we just need to unplug from the stress of work, neighbours, the state of the world, etc.
You will get through this, but you have to remember that it’s you against the problem, not against each other… Unless you’re playing a game, where is perfectly acceptable to oppose each other, and then you put that sh!t back in the box and go back to being united.