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[quote=Anonymous]I was having this conversation with my sister today. She is a WOHM and I am a SAHM, and she was talking about how unmotivated she feels.  I think the problem is that for her, as a  working woman or even when she was a full time student, her day was scheduled based on the rhythm of her work day or school.

Working from home for her has messed up her  divide of work space/time and home space/time. A lot of her socializing also happened at work and she misses the inbuilt break of socializing that her work day provided.  Her attention is divided because she is now in two work spaces at the same time - home and work.

On the other hand, being a SAHM, my day is  usually extremely unstructured with a thousand interruptions.  I am seen as always "available" by my family.   The only way I could keep my sanity was to figured out how to do the one essential daily chore as quickly as I could, so that I could go with the flow the rest of the day.  My one essential daily chore is making lunch and dinner.  I basically finish all my cooking  between  8am -10 am.  Since the pandemic, I have been doing that between 6 am - 8am.  While I was not used to my family working from home before, I can deal with the interruptions and their presence, because my one essential task (of feeding them), is done even now.  I am still in my "work space" as before. My challenge is that my family is now present at home all the time...and very often that means that my quite place/time has become rare. I started walking and exercising since the pandemic, just to get a break from them.

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