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AIBU?

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notyourmummy · 17/12/2020 21:54

I'm currently working from home, doing a voluntary job and a paid job that take up around 10hrs/week each on average. I have 2 children, one in nursery school half days and one in primary school. I'm not a particularly outgoing/social person, but I've always gone out and done things (playgroups with my children, met a few friends for a run/cuppa and chat) and I'm a
very affectionate person, I would always hug friends etc. I feel like lately I have no purpose or direction in my life, I'm either looking after the children/house or sat on computer working, I have nothing that defines me as me and I feel really worthless. My husband (works full time) doesn't understand why I'm finding life so difficult at the moment. He says I should feel fortunate that I can be at home because his job earns enough to support the family without me going out to work and I have to accept the way things are because of the Covid pandemic and that I shouldn't yearn for the way things were before.
My aibu is am I being unreasonable feeling low about myself and my inability to be "me" at the moment, or should I just be grateful that we're in a privileged position and accept the way things are?

OP posts:
RandomMess · 17/12/2020 21:57

You can be both appreciative of your privileged position financially AND feel lost and worthless because you are isolated and not able to be "you"

Thanks

Covid has been very hard on a lot of people, lack of human contact is so difficult on most.

thepeopleversuswork · 17/12/2020 22:28

OP a lot of people are struggling with life right now. You don't have to be ill or on the breadline to feel that life is tough. COVID has affected people's mental health in very deep ways which many of us haven't begun to properly process.

I think so many of us have been just running on adrenaline trying to get through it day to day for so long, now many of us are about to go into a period of relative down time its given us a chance to think about how traumatic its been.

Be kind to yourself. You don't have to justify feeling isolated and scared and weird. This is most people's normal now.

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