To the person you are quarantined with what would you really like to say!?

[Rainb0w]

Dear husband,

You don't want to go to the supermarket yet you moan about what food I've got planned for today... Please either shut the f up or don't eat it and I'll save it for tomorrow for me.

What would you really like to say to the people your quarantined with but won't to keep peace?

To ds1(9) Put the fucking ball down its annoying as hell, also if you don't stop whining like a 2 year old everytime I say something to you I will put you in the Harry Potter cupboard obviously I can't say as hes too sensitive and would cry for days.

Ds1 (9) please stop sitting so close to me we're supposed to be 2 meters apart also stop playing with my bingo wings ot creeps me out.

I'd tell my kids they're champions for dealing with this so gracefully, and I'd tell my husband and kids to stop being such slobs.

Please calm down. Not everything is about you. Can you not see what is going on around you?
Also
Clean up your mess. It’s getting beyond boring cleaning up after you.

I love you with all my heart but stop telling me to be careful and stop telling me to wash my hands. I am careful, I do keep washing my hands and you're my husband - not my Dad, OK?

You are a lovely and wonderful person and I should tell you that a whole lot more often.

Old-enough-to-take-responsibility-teenager,

Your schoolwork is VERY clearly set out. You're teachers are doing an amazing job, I get all the notifications too. Do you think I'm blind or just stupid when you tell me that you just have to read XYZ. You don't. It says in black and white what you have to do. It's set to take you 12 hours, not 15 minutes.

We're all here to help you and are more than willing to. But only you can do it. You clearly don't give a shit whether you pass or fail, why should I tie myself in knots and cry over it any more?

But I do. And will continue to. And that pisses me off more than anything.

Stop working so hard. I know it’s important and you’re in demand but you’re working much longer days than usual despite having no commute. They’ll cope if you don’t answer every email the second it lands. You’re doing brilliantly and have nothing to prove. I’m glad you’re home and I’m grateful that even though you’re hectic and getting piled on you’re the best company I could wish for.

I'm sorry I shouted at you for something you have no control over. I'm just worried sick and it came out as a rant instead of concern ❤️. 😪

I'm sorry.
Sorry for shouting
Sorry for snapping
And thank you for being patient with me.
I'm frightened and this is an alien concept for me as I'm the strong one who just gets on with it, but I don't know how to right now and I dont like it.

Dear DH, love you loads. You’re the only person I’d ever choose to be in quarantine with 💖💖💖💖

Will you all just get out from under my feet??!!!!

Dh. You do not have coronavirus. Coughing a couple of times during the day is not a persistent cough. Tension in your chest, that goes away if you go for a walk with the dog, and which doesn’t leave you breathless, is not a coronavirus symptom. No, your forehead is not hot and you don’t have a temperature. You are fit and healthy, and I don’t want to have this discussion with you several times every bloody day.

And please, lease fuck off and let me read the paper and drink my coffee in peace. I am an introvert, and am really struggling with having people (dh and ds3) around all the time - normally ds3 is at uni, and dh works away a lot - 2-3 nights and 3-4 days a week, so I get plenty of alone time. Now I am getting next to none, and am close to losing the final shred of my sanity. If I can start the day with that bit of peace, with coffee and the paper, I can cope with the people-y-ness of the rest of the day - but dh keeps coming in and talking to me, or worse, reading the paper over my shoulder. He will lose a hand soon.

Thank you for being so calm and patient and understanding. I know I have germ centred OCD and at at this time you are finding me VERY hard to live with.

I think you are a wonderful person, loving, kind and gentle. After a age of abuse I landed in your arms and I feel so safe with your support. You make me belly laugh every day.

You are my world.

Oh my husband has thought at some point every single day that he has CV.

Cue weak cough, 'do I have a fever' and so on. Every morning. Then, a normal day: work from home, afternoon run and big dinner, lots of wine, off to bed.... and the next morning, repeat.

I can't tell you how proud I am of you, as I'm already sick of hearing about how you are a key worker (tongue in cheek)! I'm petrified that something horrid is going to happen tomorrow when you get trained up for mortuary work. I can't get my head around this and my anxiety is making me sick.

Dd(15) you have work to do...don't leave it until the last minute, I'm sick of nagging and my head hurts. Please think of the future-a levels but you need to get a good assessment gcse grade. So get off Animal crossing and get it done. Please...

Ds(13) I know I have hardly anything in you want to eat but times are hard and having no cheese strings or decent chocolate is not the end of the world. Also turn your tv down!!!

I'm doing alright, surprisingly.

UMI don’t understand the positive/nice ones! The title says ‘what would you really like to say’ it implies that saying something negative will cause friction, therefore say it here instead.
The positive ones, surely you’re already saying to the person? Why wouldn’t you?!

I did just say it.

Well, actually I screamed it at my dick of a DH who thinks it's his job just to shout at and dictate to everyone else in the house.
I lost my shit after this morning when I got in my car to go to review an urgent patient and realised I had a completely flat tyre. Obviously sitting at his laptop was more important than helping a nurse in need and I cried while I tried to remember what to do with the bloody compressor (no spare) in my uniform in the street covered in muck from the tyres, then he shouted at me because I was on the phone trying to find someone who could help me and I wouldn't listen to him.

Then he shouted at DC as they must not be doing any schoolwork because they weren't typing. DC were doing all sorts of schoolwork that did not require typing.

Then I got grunted at when I said what was for tea. Then I tripped over a charger and got shouted at again.

Then I lost my shit with him and now I'm considering the logistics of moving out during a pandemic.

To my dh... sit the fuck down, stop trying to micro manage everything me and the dc do because you're bored

@LurpakIsTheOnlyButter 💐 Your dh sounds like a dick!
My dh likes to micro manage us and it does my head in, but no where near as bad as your dh x

Dp, I like you but 16 days with you confirms you can be a very grumpy MF .

This is like a second honeymoon, admittedly with less sex.
I'm enjoying your company, not rushing around to help out our adult dc, going on lovely long walks and talking to each other properly
You've also done a grand job with shopping, cooking, cleaning and DIY.
(I have told him all this, we are very lucky).

DS you are a little dream. I love you.

to my partner you have been nothing less than an angel. i have had a breakdown the last few weeks even tried to take my own life though he knows little about mh he has stood by me and tried to do all he can to help me, tempting me with my fave foods to eat etc i know deep down inside he is my soul mate always thought it but now i know for sure

Why are there so many soggy wet tea towels in the kitchen? I don't understand how one man dies that? Especially as we have a dishwasher.

OMG yes! @sugarcherry
How the hell do they do it!!