I HATE video calls

[Sunbo]

I hate feeling the pressure to have video calls with friends and family. I am actually enjoying not having to do my hair or wear make up every day at the moment, the last thing I want to do is video call someone!

I feel I am having to do it for other people, ie for grandparents so they can see my kids/ their grandchildren and for my sister so she can see her nephews. I am really not that bothered and could do without it! I am exhausted from managing my two young boys all day long!

Having to face time with my sons school friends which means I am also involved With it as he is only 5! So I end up appearing on screen too.

Obviously I must be an introvert! The worst was my DH doing a family call with our boys and his family, and then they were like ‘where is your mummy?’...’go and get her!’ I obviously looked so rude by not then joining... but I wasn’t ‘screen ready’. Eugh I hate it!! Anyone else?!

It’s really irritating. My ex wants to vc our son every two days. Yet for the last eight years he’s seen him one day a week, and not wanted more.

Ds is fed up because neither of them is great conversationalists so I have to write a list of things he could talk about, so they aren’t just sat in silence looking at each other.

And my ex keeps saying he can do zoom, or FaceTime or WhatsApp or teams like it’s some sort of weird techno-competition.

To me it feels like my ex constantly peering in the window. I find it massively intrusive.

I HATE FaceTime with a bloody passion. I refuse to go on camera as I hate looking so rough.