Making the lockdown with the other half.

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Anyone else close to killing the other half....
he’s actually doing my head in, I love him to bits but this is why we don’t do everything together 24/7, we’ve been together 16 years but not being able to go anywhere for space is slowly killing my spirit. To top it off DS 12 is autistic so this out of routine is really making him anxious. And DP will not shut up about him doing all the work. He is doing some but I’m trying to look out for his mental well being. I get he’s worried but he’s really pushing all my buttons right now...
Anyone else...

Yup my DH is driving me insane too. We live in a small house and his anxiety is bad due to him having underlying health conditions. He’s constantly talking about the virus to the point he talks about nothing else. He snaps at the DCs and has the news in constantly. I keep trying to explain his anxiety is getting worse due to all the news etc then he shouts at me. We don’t have many places we can all get personal space and I feel like it’s crushing us all. But what can we do

DH is still having to work. But we fully expect Friday to be the last day. He announced last night that when he is off he will clean the house from top to bottom.
Im dreading it. I don't have the energy for that. We have been together over 30 years and I know he will shout and sulk and make it uncomfortable for everyone

I am quite pleased DH is a key worker but not front line, it means he is out of the house 3 days a week and will stop me killing him.
Yesterday he was off, spent the morning tinkering on his PC, the afternoon tinkering in the garden, then went out with DD fir his daily excercise.

Meanwhile I did a 9 hour day in my home office trying to bring order to chaos and came out to find the kitchen a bomb site, the dishwasher still full of clean and that nobody wanted to cook dinner.

I’m praying he gets the job from the agency, working in the kitchens at the hospital. We both need the break tbh, the kids aren’t used to him being here all the time so it’s affecting them too. I feel I’m gonna flip out on him soon. And we are only 3 days in.

So, so happy to be divorced. :)

What will you all do when you retire?

My DH has been home with me since last October! Physical health problem which he has slowly recovered from thankfully. He’s classed as a key worker and will be going back in on a phased return next week. I love him very much but I will be doing a little dance when he leaves for work on Monday.

Me too. He is supposed to be doing the supervision of the children but I am doing it as well as working.

We’re actually quite enjoying it. We really really weren’t expecting to because we’re both very territorial and like our own space - we live in separate homes by choice even though we’ve been together years - but decided I’d move into his from last week onwards. It’s a one bedroom flat and we’ve realised we’re actually really good at simply existing in the same room, doing separate things.

One of us gets up early and goes to bed early one of us gets up later and goes to bed later.
We meet in the middle for around 12 hours have a meal together and at least get some of our own space

Luckily it's not much different for us! We both work from home most of the time anyway. The key for us is that we each have our own 'rooms' so we don't always have to be in each other's way and can have space to do our own thing. When we had a much smaller house, things were definitely tougher as we had to work and then live life in the same space together all the time. Here we don't really see each other during the working day anyway, bar crossing paths in the kitchen, and then in the evenings we sometimes do stuff together, sometimes separately.