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[quote=Anonymous]It’s not back to normal for me. My toddler is still unvaccinated. There’s a war in Ukraine, the prices of goods and groceries is sky high and rising, every trip to the grocery store/gas station is painful, my wages are worth less, we can’t afford a premium
7K extra charge on a new car due to the parts shortage so we are doing without, my partner and I have a lot of healing in our relationship to do as we fought tons these last 2 years over different opinions in COVID risk, handling family visitors, what was safe for the kids, child care, and fighting and jockeying over balancing kids at home doing virtual
School with our work and meetings. I am so sick of hearing my partners work calls and work voice and negotiating whose
Meeting is more important and who gets the office and who has to watch and supervise the kids. Our relationship has been seriously damaged like many couples and I have a hard time seeing us get back to where we were before. We are also dealing with continued illnesses and struggling to find decent child care - centers don’t offer full day or don’t have openings, etc. So much pressure on to make up for 2 years of missing fun activities for the kids. Sleep deprived and burned out and I have realized that I hate being a working parent and feel strongly (ironically for me as an ardent feminist) that to be an active and good parent for the kids and to raise them the way we want, one parent needs to stay home. And yet we cannot afford this in todays society so we both are struggling and being crappy workers, parents, and partners since we are all expected to do it all. Also - I am so angry at our grandparents who basically always say, oh I wish I could help when life is hard for us yet just want to come and visit, be waited on hand and foot, hardly help at all with our kids, and have little to no COVID precautions anymore despite being at risk and having unvaxxed grand kids. Oh and then there’s the friends who dropped/judged me for being COVID conscious with a newborn - I’ll never get those back again and I don’t want them - but no energy to find new like minded friends [/quote]

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