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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. People on here saying "actually Covid was great for families because there was more work life balance and time with kids" -- I believe that was your experience and the experience of people you know. That was not a universal experience. My work life balance did NOT improve with Covid. My home workload vastly increased, my professional workload stayed the same. Covid was not some great boon that allowed me to save time and money. It made my life harder. I accept not everyone had that experience, but don't sit there and gaslight those of us who did.

2. Yes, of course parenting is always hard. But Covid actually did happen. You can say "this has nothing to do with Covid, it's just parenting," and some of it no doubt is. But also some of it is Covid. There are people on this thread who changed their family planning because of the pandemic. That's a real impact. There are people with burnout BECAUSE of Covid. Not just incidental to it, but because the pandemic put a specific and heavy strain on them and it pushed them to burn out. I don't understand this desire to act like Covid is irrelevant or that everyone would be in the exact same place in life even if there had been no pandemic. That's insane. Covid was an actual thing that happened and of course it had impacts on people. Again, stop with the gaslighting.

3. If you enjoyed Covid because it improved your work life balance, and tend to feel it had no negative impacts on you personally and didn't in any way change the trajectory of your life, congrats. But.... why are you in this thread that is specifically about people who had a different experience? What are you getting out of this?[/quote]

Don’t you remember the great resignation? Lots of people quit and now they are back to work. You sound like you were able to push through.

This was not war. You are talking about housework and childcare. Come on.[/quote]

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

You're minimizing again.  Maybe try making the internet a better place rather than posting on this thread.  [/quote]

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