'It felt like I was living with a stranger': How lockdown, booze and resentment turned a once loving couple against one another 'Everything I have known has completely collapsed around me' Updated 'All these insecurities came out'' (Image: Simon Dack / Brighton Argus) Divorce inquiries, problem drinking, and domestic conflict have all increased in the last nine months, according to experts, as the pressures of the pandemic put couples and families under strain. Research from organisations including Drinkaware, Co-op Legal Services, and our own data unit - which found one in five crimes during lockdown in England and Wales concerned domestic abuse - has laid bare the worrying trends over the last year.