Quarantine Confessions (share yours here)
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Anonymous
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, fun, and head over heels in love with him. She is significantly less attractive, but she won the geography and timing battle.
Anonymous
^^^It sucks when some other woman gets the life that you thought you were going to have. |
Anonymous
| I am thriving in quarantine. Super productive at work, love seeing my kids 24/7, even cleaned up my diet because I fear the supply chain and think we will not have food soon to buy. I just worry what our society will look like when this is over. It’s frightening. |
Anonymous
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I’m seeing the positives.
I already worked from home anyway, but I didn’t have my kids around. Realizing this is going to last until June, and maybe even later, means my kids will celebrate their birthdays on Zoom. They’ll miss end of year celebrations at school. They will remember these days for the rest of their lives I suspect. With that as the backdrop, I’m thinking how else can I spend more time with them? What else can I do to make this special? Think of it this way - if you normally spend 2 hours a day after work with your kids, you now spend probably close to 14. That means that in three or four months you’ll have spent as much time as you normally would over 2 years with them. It’s a sobering thought on how formative the time might be. |
Anonymous
| Those that live will certainly remember this for the rest of their lives. |
Anonymous
Honestly, I agree about the 80+ elderly in care homes. In previous generations when a grandparent lived at home, their lives would have ended with a virus like the flu brought home by a younger family member. Seems like what played out in Italy where they called COVID-19 "the grandpa disease." The Malthus theory on population checks: https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/malthusian-theory/#a-positive-checks-or-natural-checks |
Anonymous
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I confess that when my parent lingered in a nursing home for 4 years, Coronavirus would have been a blessing. You get to the point where your parent is legally alive, but not living.
There are entire communities where the elderly are kind of warehoused and dependent upon aides to dress, bathe, move, toilet, diaper change, feed and otherwise attend to and it’s all impersonal and isolating. My parent was in a lauded, expensive facility in a private room and it was beyond depressing and dire. We hired a private duty aide and visited to ensure our parent was rarely alone. Otherwise, the frail elderly are left alone for hours. Call buttons ignored. My parent literally wasted away and died while sleeping. I’ve changed my medical directive that I am not be be kept alive by any extraordinary means/DNR. |
Anonymous
something to consider - maybe he has the same regrets about you and did all along but didn't know what to do about it? |
Anonymous
It’s possible, but he wasn’t the sentimental type like me. Much more practical. It is so pathetic, here I am thinking of him every day for some reason after all these years, and he probably barely remembers my name. What a loser I am. And why do I even have a right to be sad about this stupid thing with all that is going on? |
Anonymous
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parental nap time = sexy time; nap time is basically a daily occurrence now.
our 3 kids are all teens and if they're not engaged in remote classrooms, they're in the basement playing video games our playing ball in the driveway |
Anonymous
| I bought my teenage son a video game to get him to take a shower. No energy for fighting about it- straight up bribe. |
Anonymous
| I’m now playing cards on an app. I sent $100 yesterday for coin refills. |
Anonymous
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I'm the OP and glad this thread is thriving. I have two more confessions:
1. Last week I went to take a nap on my "lunch hour". I accidentally overslept by 15 minutes and was late to a meeting. Whoops. Hopefully they thought I was working on something and couldn't stop. 2. All day today I couldn't really make myself do any work. I think the problem is that I don't have enough to do, so I hold onto the one thing I have so I won't have NOTHING. I finally did my one task at 4pm. 
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Anonymous
My goodness, you followed perfectly the playbook for how nit to get a person to marry you. |
Anonymous
I know. We were living in different cities after college, and I just wanted to be with him, so I put up with his coming into and out of my life and his mixed signals. I know that he never really loved me. But I’m not sure because, from what I know, he broke up with the woman he married several times too (and that it when he would get together with me). So maybe he just had a general mental block toward relationships. Anyway, she was ultimately in the right place at the right time, so she won. Anyway, who cares. His life probably turned out great, and mine turned out bad. I’m an idiot who never meant anything to anyone. |