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Collected Item: “Quarantine Marital Problems”

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Quarantine Marital Problems

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Meme from Instagram

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.


When COVID-19 hit and we were all quarantined with our families, the cracks in our relationships began to fracture in some cases. There were a lot of jokes about marriage and this meme shows that this particular couple had fissures so big and the wife was so desperate, she was digging a grave.
Her husband was clueless about her plans, but who knows? Maybe he had similar plans of his own.

This is funny because of course no one will actually kill his/her spouse no matter how badly they might want to! Right?

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#ASU, #HST580, #humor, #marriageinquarantine, #quarantine, #marriage

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Instagram post

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2029-03-26
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