It gave me a chance to grieve my divorce in private and learn to be more frugal and more self-sufficient socially.

It looks like my switch to working from home will be permanent, and that has been life-changing in extremely positive ways.

Anonymous wrote:It’s made me mad. I will never ever forget the feeling of abandonment. The whole world walked out. I was home alone with 3 small children, one with special needs, for 15 months. Our schools didn’t reopen. Therapies were only on zoom. And nobody cared. My parents social distanced from us. My DH can’t work from home and was out of the house from 8-7 every weekday. Soooo many “friends” and neighbors gushed about all the “silver linings” of the pandemic and how they enjoyed the family time and slower pace. Can’t relate. At all.

Sounds like maybe you bit off more than you can chew.

It’s left me utterly confused. The politics… the masking… the vaccine… the public school parents… everyone seems completely intolerant of different points of view now.

Anonymous wrote:It coincided with lots of deaths of family and friends. It made reassess things and make a 180 degree career turn with about 30% paycut. No regrets there.
But thinking about that life is terminal every single day pretty much.

This is me as well. I lost two important family members a bit too young (not COVID, but circumstances were complicated), and as part of the fallout, my remaining family left the place that has always been our hometown. I feel unmoored and so, so thinking about life as a terminal situation. I'm also very much struggling with doing the basics of healthy habits, which doesn't help aforementioned worry.

Anonymous wrote:Lost my job (airline pilot) and my home. Had a suicide attempt from the forced isolation and will never work again as a pilot. My marriage is hanging on by a thread and I will likely lose that, too.

I'm so sorry. Sending you hope for strength and healing.

Lost my job (airline pilot) and my home. Had a suicide attempt from the forced isolation and will never work again as a pilot. My marriage is hanging on by a thread and I will likely lose that, too.

Not what you want to hear but we had a series of really bad things happen for the last 8 years and school was a bust with a bad teacher so COVID gave us respite from a bad school year/teacher and gratefully nothing significant happened. Its all so subjective on what you consider bad. We readjusted things and made them work.

Anonymous wrote:It’s made me mad. I will never ever forget the feeling of abandonment. The whole world walked out. I was home alone with 3 small children, one with special needs, for 15 months. Our schools didn’t reopen. Therapies were only on zoom. And nobody cared. My parents social distanced from us. My DH can’t work from home and was out of the house from 8-7 every weekday. Soooo many “friends” and neighbors gushed about all the “silver linings” of the pandemic and how they enjoyed the family time and slower pace. Can’t relate. At all.

Well, I can understand why of course your parents distanced from you, and since your husband works outside the home, isn’t thwt what you wanted? Did you really want your elderly parents to expose themselves to covid via your husbands workplace exposure? You need to let that anger at your parents go.

But I get what you mean. My husband had to work outside the home too and his ex with whom we share custody had a dangerous job too. Meanwhile so many of my friends were able to hunker down in country houses and telecommute. Or even just their own homes and telecommute. Yet many of them complained rather than realize how lucky they were, to be able to stay home.

And one of my friends who was telecommuting from a beach house got in an argument with me about how people like my husbands ex (who works in a restaurant) should be working in person because it’s good for the economy. She said this while staying home and getting groceries delivered. It pissed me off. She offered no sympathy for our situation. Just complained about how hard it is was to be sequestered in her beach house with her kids and live in nanny. Poor poor her.

I can’t be friends with her anymore. I’m still pissed.

Health care worker. I'm so tired, and I look so old. I never dealt with anxiety or burnout before this, and I find myself irritable and ready to snap all the time. I have some cardiac damage from a likely COVID infection early on, and that's probably going to shorten my lifespan.

It’s made me mad. I will never ever forget the feeling of abandonment. The whole world walked out. I was home alone with 3 small children, one with special needs, for 15 months. Our schools didn’t reopen. Therapies were only on zoom. And nobody cared. My parents social distanced from us. My DH can’t work from home and was out of the house from 8-7 every weekday. Soooo many “friends” and neighbors gushed about all the “silver linings” of the pandemic and how they enjoyed the family time and slower pace. Can’t relate. At all.

Anonymous wrote:Covid put trump and his idiot sycophants in the rear view mirror.

Finally woke up the country to the fact that an idiot as Commander-in-Chief is the stupidest thing you can have in a crisis.

Covid put trump and his idiot sycophants in the rear view mirror.

Covid took my best friend and a teacher who I admired more than anyone.

Allowed me the grace to learn to stop accepting the BS from family and friends. I now prioritize my mental health above all else.

It coincided with lots of deaths of family and friends. It made reassess things and make a 180 degree career turn with about 30% paycut. No regrets there.
But thinking about that life is terminal every single day pretty much.