No space

[Frozenintime]

Anyone else feeling like this? DH WFH since March last year. DS uses playstation in living room - our choice as don't like consoles in bedrooms. I'm longing for a little time alone just to watch a film and enjoy some quiet but it will be weeks away

Yes, absolutely. It's difficult and can feel stifling. We are hopefully looking towards the roll out of the vaccine and a return eventually to some type of normal, so just try and look positively to that. But I know it's not nice when you just need your own space and some quiet.

I’ve started watching more on my phone. I downloaded the Netflix app and take myself off for a long bath.

I go to bed early. Just so I can close the door and read a book in some sort of solitude

Send DS to bed early occasionally

He doesn't need to play x box every night

I’m a lone parent so this is my life all the time, I can’t even sit in the kitchen for 2 minutes without my kids trying to find me 😒

Yep. Doesn't help that we were already overcrowded anyway, the house we're in wasn't designed for a family of four, let alone with anyone working from home (2 bed, no dining room, living room only just big enough for a foldaway table) Add on the fact my family won't even let me go to the toilet without at least one of them trying to task to me through the door - it's all too much. I long for a soundproof room with a lock on the door.

Yep. I have 2 homeschooling on the dining table (lounge diner no other room downstairs) - neither can do this independently it seems 3hrs work takes today 8 hours as he just won't concentrate. I think I'm winning with the older one though.
Dh in my office 8-6 wfh. So its either the loo or the stairs! I even sat on the chest freezer in the garage for about 20mins the other day before I got too cold!!
I've worked from home for 10+ years and used to having the house to myself - driving me mad!!

He has to stop at 8pm but then is all over the sofa

Going bat shit crazy in my house. OH normally works 12hr days 5 days a week. We have his 2 kids after school/overnight Weds/Thurs and my 2 Fri after school/overnight and one Saturday a month. With OH being off and his kids not attending school during the first lockdown they've been here alot more than normal. Only living room/kitchen downstairs, 2 bedrooms upstairs. I sat on the kitchen for a while but OH smokes at the back door and his youngest follows him everywhere. Frequently queue for the bathroom. Our room is next to the bathroom so I get to listen to everyone's toilet trips. Arghhhhh. 36wks pregnant, due to go on maternity leave end of this week. Can't go out because its cold and wet. Haven't the money to be driving myself off anywhere to sit in a cold car. Thoroughly fed up and fecked off. Spending all my time satbon my own in the bedroom like a naughty teen. OH seems oblivious playing computer games with the kids. Only spoken to at the moment if someone needs taking somewhere.

I understand! Single mum with 2 primary kids. Console in living room as I won't allow in bedrooms yet. Constant noise. I hide in the kitchen a lot! Bed time is my favourite part of the day when I can just sit in bed in peace.

I was about to start a thread on this. I feel the same. I feel like screaming when I sit on the sofa in the morning looking at the same walls and then trying to not go mad spending most of the day in the same lounge playing with the same toys with a toddler who now hates going for walks. I feel like I need a room just for me. I wonder if everybody will up sticks and move once this is all over?

@Mochatatts you don’t have your own kids that much. Doesn’t sound that bad.

My DP has such a loud booming voice which gets louder and louder when he’s on a zoom meeting which is all day and evening and it’s really getting to me.

My kids are here half the school holidays but much of my contact is dictated by my exh. I've been working 3/4 nights a week throygh the whole pandemic and see my kids after school for tea every mon/tues 50 miles away. So what little alone time I had at home to recharge has now completely gone.

And ds has that booming loud teenage voice

I find myself getting really, really arsey with my H at the moment. He’s actually a very decent fellow so I don’t know if it’s being locked down for the best part of a year on the advice of my midwife (while I was pregnant last year, not just generally), having a baby during lockdown and not being able to go anywhere or do anything or see anyone (no one could hold him and now he’s 8 months snd a little lump), still being fucking locked down, or if it’s PMT, or never being able to get away from his face or if it’s just the general stress the mental health of the entire nation is under at the moment, or what...... But I’m fed up and life feels like we all have nothing currently to look forward to.

It’s grim.

Sorry, that was quite the rant.

Oh dear lord to add to it, he's got a monitor arriving from work in a few days so he can work with 2 screens. So that's even more work stuff in our little living room. 😳

@Winterwoollies

Sorry, that was quite the rant.

Totally ok. It's not healthy for families to be saturated in each others company constantly