With over 20,000 deaths globally over coronavirus outbreak, many relationships have been put to test with some ending up broken while others are a few metres shy from ending.
Since the outbreak in China's Wuhan province, the World Health Organisation has asked other countries to ensure that they practise social distancing and wash hands regularly to prevent the spread of the virus.
In Kenya, more than 30 coronavirus cases have been recorded with the government tracing over 1,000 contacts.
One person has so far died of the virus and two are in a critical situation at the Aga Khan hospital.
The government has gone ahead to place a curfew on its citizens from 7 pm to 5 am.
But with all these measures and curfew, relationships have also been affected during this difficult period.
As I sit under my makuti hut in the Karen area, I overhear a conversation about Covid-19 from one of my philanthropic neighbours.
"What is wrong with you? If you don't want to use a sanitiser, get out of my house. This is my house, and I choose to do what I want with it and in It," Kamau Njoroge* shouted at his cousin.
Njoroge who is in his 40's was addressing his cousin who went out in the morning to the Nairobi Central Business District and came back in the house and did not wash his hands with soap and water nor did he use a sanitiser.
"You cannot come into the house after probably greeting over 10 people then you refuse to use a sanitizer? You are telling me that you don't want to use a sanitiser? This is my house, and you have to do as I say," Njoroge said.
"We can't allow you to come here and hold my spoons and bring this virus here. We are trying to be careful and you are behaving as if you don't care."
Njoroge said this even as he kept on walking to the balcony with a visibly angry face.
"You are a joker! Leave my house," he added.
As I listened to this conversation, the next thing I saw, was the man - Njoroge's cousin- storm out of the house, a clear indication of how the coronavirus outbreak has affected many relationships.
I then called my friend *Tamara Anne, 27 who tells me that she has had a fairly tough relationship since the Covid-19 broke out.
"Yes... I do have a boyfriend... we both know what’s going on so we are respecting each other’s spaces. Our mode of communication is mainly texts and phone calls," Anne tells the Star.
But Anne notes that the relationship has not been easy as it was before the coronavirus.
"It has changed a lot. No outings, no dinner dates, no nothing..It has been a hard time but we are trying to cope," she says.
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