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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH paces the entire house when he’s on calls and doesn’t close the door to his office when he’s in it, either. I don’t have an office of my own so I do my “work” - job hunting and family paperwork - in the dining room. If i have interviews or need to make phone calls, I will go to our bedroom. When DH is done with calls, he’ll often talk to me about situations happening with his job. I feel like I am living at his company, but I hate to tell him to stay in his damn office and close the door. I am also ready to stop being a sounding board after several years of this since WFH began. Any suggestions on trying to get DH’s job to take up less figurative space in our house?

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Wow, this resonates! I'm back in the office most days now but it is really hard to try to work at home when DH is around because he's everywhere all at once, spreading stuff in every room, and very noisy. We had a lot of hard conversations when we (plus our college kid) were all working in our small apartment a few years ago, and I got a few major concessions (like no working at the kitchen counter, piling papers on the stove (!!!), and barking at DC and me when we asked him to move so we could grab a meal between my zoom meetings/ DC's online classes), but I just have to grit my teeth and deal with the rest because he won't be contained in a single room. [/quote]

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