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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel the same. I drained a lot of PTO due to lack of childcare, illness, and then moving during the pandemic and still haven't had a chance to take enough of a break to recharge. We've been in our new house for two years this summer and it still looks like we just moved in. My family of origin also fell apart over the past two years and I went from having my parents as a support system to zero support at all - which happens to everyone eventually but amidst everything else I'm really reeling. The way I describe it is I was in a hole nearly six feet under, and even though I've crawled almost all the way out, it's still the same hole and still feels like a hole. I wake up in the morning and the work is still there and the expectations for getting it done don't change.[/quote]

I relate to this so much. We moved twice during the pandemic and are still not fully moved in. My husband is a freelancer and lost  a lot of work and income so we moved in with family to save on rent. Then I got a new job with a significant salary increase so we could afford our own place again. Right after we moved we went into the most intense part of the pandemic with our kids ages 3,6. DH and I sharing a tiny office. Meanwhile all of my colleagues are either childless women or men aged 55+ with SAH partners or fully grown or teenage children. Just when I thought this year we might catch our breath, my chronic illnesses flared up in a big way, then DH and I got COVID and had to isolate again. I’ve had to spend a lot of time working from bed, taking PTO or scaling back on work for dr appointments, treatments, rest. The sad thing is no one seems to notice or care, everyone else palpably exhausted too after the past few years. There is a collective feeling of exhaustion, depression, indifference.[/quote]

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