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[quote=Anonymous]Yes OP, I totally feel this. I think it’s that life with young kids was already busy and required staying on top of things (I have 3 and work full time), but now we’re trying to do all the things we did before with depleted resources.

Like I burned through a bunch of leave thanks to various close contact quarantines (preschool kept up with that long after the rest of the world went back to normal). And we burned through a lot of savings having to hire a pod teacher when our oldest started K plus I cut back my hours for a whole, which cost us even more money. I have somewhat gotten back into exercising, but I’m nowhere near at the fitness level I was at before (I used to be the type of person who would get up early for a 5:30 am orange theory class and now just a jog through the neighborhood is tiring.

Also, a lot of things have changed. Some older people at my job left during COVID and because I was too busy surviving I missed the boat on some promotional opportunities that will likely not come open again for a while. Not to mention I feel like my ambition has been crushed seeing how little society gives a crap about working moms. And everything just costs more — restaurants and babysitters $$$ making date nights feel like an extravagance. We recently took a family vacation somewhere we had visited before and were shocked at the start of the hotel compared to our last trip pre-COVID. Plus the rooms cost more and no longer even have the same level of housekeeping. Not to mention the costs of things like groceries. So it just feels like we need to be more careful with our money.

I don’t even think I’m depressed or anything like that. But like a PP mentioned, I am a different person now than I was before.

I think we were all running along the life treadmill and suddenly got forced into a marathon in March 2020. Now we aren’t running full speed anymore, but we never really got a chance to restore ourselves so even a regular jog feels so much more exhausting. I don’t know how to get my pacing right again. [/quote]

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