Anyone actually enjoying lockdown

[Gre8scott]

I am loving it no rush to school no rush to get to work no rushing about get kids to clubs.
Being with my beautiful family all day every day.
Not having to worry about the fact I dont go out at weekends
Love it

Nope, dieu, I don’t have a partner. Just four dc.

No point in being a Debbie Downer about it. See the positives where you can.

For me it's been a (bearable) pain in the arse and I can't wait to resume normal life. I want my kids out from under my feet. I want to travel. I want to go out for dinner. Just to be free again.

I’m OK financially and companion wise. I’m loving the stresslessness of it all. ( apparently the number of people having heart attacks and strokes is down. -what does that tell you?!) I’m loving that it’s been good weather so we’re able to chat to neighbours from the garden. ☀️

I’m missing my family hugs soooooo much now though. 😞

SecondaryBurnzzz I have a couple of friends where I've felt like we've been growing apart for a while, and not seeing them over lockdown has only confirmed that as I don't miss them at all Not sure how we're going to navigate that going forward.

I do have a decent coparenting relationship with dc’s dad though. I’m willing to concede that that makes a difference.

However, given the choice between being without support during lockdown or out of it, I just know I would find lockdown infinitely easier.

It depends what you find stressful I think and pretty much all my stress comes from interaction with the outside world.

I love it. All my stress comes from the world outside my door.

No.Everyday like groundhog day.Nothing to get up for and then watching the news and seeing how many ppl have died is so depressing. Highlight of the day is getting a bit of food in.

It's entirely possible to be enjoying this period on a personal level while still feeling empathy for others.

And nope. No partner here to share anything with.

My mental health is a lot better than usual. No anxiety based around the pressure to go out and do things. So when 'normal' life resumes I assume people won't post about how wonderful it is. Because, you know, empathy!
Of course I don't really expect people not to celebrate/post whatever. But I've often found that empathy (or other emotions) is only expected to be one way. And for some of us life (on a personal level at least) is better at the moment .

I'm pretty good at self-isolating, as I've been ill for quite a long time now. I'm missing my mum though.

YABU to say so when so many are ill, dying, and suffering.

YANBU to be enjoying it. I'm not hating it myself.

It's entirely possible to be enjoying this period on a personal level while still feeling empathy for others.

This. Obviously not happy about the terrible parts, but on a personal level, it's an easier lifestyle for me. Quite like having everyone here all the time. Like the fact I'm not rushing around getting DC2 into childcare that I didn't especially want to do yet, anyway. Love not having to dress for any weather just to do anything, like the fact we are saving money by not going out and doing stuff. I love seeing people and I am missing that, but it stressed me out so much that it cost money to do so. So in many ways I am happy to just pause that for a bit.

I do feel incredibly lucky and grateful to be stuck in with DH who is calm and lovely, and that my two kids are the ages they are - I would have massively struggled I think if they were not right where they are now. As it is DS1 is old enough to be independent and contact his friends remotely so is not too fed up, but hasn't hit full on teenage grump mode yet. DS2 is little enough to nap and go to bed relatively early and be more cute and hilarious than frustrating.

Yes, very much enjoying it at the moment.

BUT, I will caveat that with acknowledging that I am in a very privileged position. Though I’ve got no work due to lockdown (self-employed supply teacher), DH’s work has continued, and he earns enough that it doesn’t matter if I don’t work for a while longer. Especially since we aren’t now spending any money on the gym, dance classes, pubs or restaurants. We also don’t have any children to worry about.

The only way it’s ruining things financially is that it now means we will be saving even longer to buy a house eventually 😫

I really like my new daily routine. I get up when DH does for work, spend an hour cleaning/organising/doing DIY that we’ve been putting off for ages. Then I go and volunteer at a doctors’ surgery all morning. Then in the afternoon I read books. All afternoon. It’s blissful.

The only horrible thing I’m struggling with is not being able to see my mum and my granny (I’m very close with both), or my best friend. Luckily, my mum and granny live in the same village, so I walk past their houses some days and wave/chat from the bottom of the drive.

I'm OK in myself most of the time, but it's so sad to hear about people dying. I'm sad for my grown up children. DS s whole life has stopped, his job, his playing in bands, seeing his mates. He's stuck at home with us and although he's OK, I feel so bad for him. DD is shielding with her bf in London so we've not seen each other for so long. She can't go out, she's got no garden and her health problems are a worry. Although she seems fine when we talk, I know she is missing her life. I'm missing my job and so is my partner. I'm really not interested in doing jobs around the house, and I've always cooked and eaten together. I'm working from home, which is a bit rubbish. We're making the best of it but I'm so angry how it's been dealt with, and now can't watch the news. It's heartbreaking. I'm glad that people are loving it, but I don't understand how anyone can really.

Really I thought nothing much had changed for me. I was enjoying it, didn't think I was bored.

Then last week I noticed I'd spent 5 minutes watching ferret racing on TV.

Hands up.
Apologies, I did what I hate others doing. We should have threads like this.
I just heard of two young mothers dying today aged 28 and 32, they worked with my ds2.

Ok, it's not a huge change for me but I love the peace and quiet, my dd being at home, bonding with her. Slower pace of life. Chatting to neighbours, it's easy to keep a distance from them but still socialise.
The garden is beautiful, we've sorted the house, lots of projects o the go, keeping ourselves busy.
I'm reading and even dd has picked a book up, that has to be a first, off her own back.

Pre-lockdown it was ok to say ‘life is great,’ even though life was awful for others.

Same applies now.
People aren’t celebrating death or the actual illness: just aspects of lockdown that they are enjoying.

This weird twist of fate has brought happiness to some people. How is this unempathetic?

“And for some of us life (on a personal level at least) is better at the moment .”

@PorpentiaScamander, that is a very well-articulated point, and very much resonates with me.

Obviously, the reason for the lockdown is absolutely terrible. Awful, awful for any families who have lost people, and a terrifying situation for the entire country to be in, in terms of not knowing when/how badly the virus will strike each of us.

However, when you remove the context, and look purely at “lockdown life” by itself, I agree that there are some people for whom it does actually feel like a break from other trying situations in “normal life” at the moment.

Hating it.

DH and I are both working full time from home. Our kids are 5 and 2. We work in shifts from 6am till we go to bed. The five year old won’t do a lick of schoolwork unless you practically sit on top of her and it’s a fight all the way.

In the meantime, work has never been busier and yet they have furloughed half my team. We have all had our pay cut to 80% just to make it fair though 🙃

Pre-lockdown it was ok to say ‘life is great,’ even though life was awful for others

Plenty of people on this thread are saying they love the different pace, or that they appreciate its hard for others but it's great for them, or that they love spending more time with kids... That's totally reasonable, we're all stuck and it's good if at least it can change some people's lives for the better.

Saying you are "loving lockdown", on the other hand, when it's causing immense pain and heartache to others and building up a necessary but nightmarish debt for our children is still definitely lacking in empathy and imagination.

This thread makes me at all the threads going lockdown must continue.

My dd says she is. She went straight from uni into a fast paced job, has to commute to work, and said she's never felt so well rested since being furloughed. Her usual day is up at 6, get ready, off to work, get home, go to gym, home again, cook dinner, bed.

She's back here and enjoying getting out for walks with the dog, cooking leisurely meals, sitting in the garden with a book, it's one long holiday!

Someone else I know is always at the beck and call of the family, caring for grandchildren and dogs etc, and they are loving being at home doing their diy and gardening with no demands on their time.

Yes OP! I am totally DREADING going back to normal I could cry 😭

Saying you are "loving lockdown", on the other hand, when it's causing immense pain and heartache to others and building up a necessary but nightmarish debt for our children is still definitely lacking in empathy and imagination.

But this is a thread asking if people are enjoying lockdown? You may as well suggest nobody ever says they enjoy anything because there are always other people who are suffering and not having a good time.

I am loving the time with my family, and although I am still working, the flexibility of managing my own time etc.

No I loathe it.