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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who find the silver lining must’ve had crazy busy lives before. I don’t need a pandemic to spend time with my kids or prioritize family. So no, none of us are happier. We miss our lives. [/quote]

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You must have little kids.  
I don't think we had crazy busy lives before.  Our kids were at school 7.5 hours a day and then maybe had choir, soccer practice, or religious Ed that was another 1.5 hours.  So, they were getting ready to go to stuff for an hour a day, gone 9 hours a day, then slept 10+ hours at night.  Having them home all day is a BIG difference.

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I'm one of the PPs.  My kids are in elementary school, so not sure if that counts as little in your book or not.  Yes, they had school for more hours a day before than they do now, but they loved it, so it's sad that that has been taken away from them.  Also, I could work while they were in school, which is a lot harder to do now.  Plus, my kids weren't swamped with three activities like choir, soccer practice, and religious Ed.  They have one activity that we do jointly and otherwise we spent a ton of time together as a family since both my husband and I are fortunate to have jobs that allow us to be home for breakfasts and dinners every day plus not work on weekends.  Before this we did family walks with the dogs, family bike rides, family games, family puzzles, and tons of family meals.  We're doing the same now, except that none of us can see our friends, plus a million other things that are worse.  We miss our old lives.[/quote]

I can see that.  That sounds miserable.  I’m sorry, op.    I guess that the benefit of all of those activities is that now my kids know how to sing and play music and pray and play soccer and go to church.  So I don’t feel like we are walking the dog and doing puzzles over and over again.  [/quote]

Funny, my kids also now how to do most of those things. And we aren’t doing the same things over and over again. You sound like you’ve realized your previous life kind of sucked, so I’m sad for you. [/quote]

I thought you were all miserable and doing all the same things you did before?  If you know how to play music, then learn something new!  Stop being so dependent on other people for your happiness.  [/quote]

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