AIBU to ask if you get your energy from being with others or being alone?

[PippaParsnip]

For me, it's being alone.

I love my husband. He's amazing. We get on really well. But I just want to have the day to myself. My kids are older - one is working but lives at home and the other is a young teen. Again, he's fine but annoying in the way that teens are

I work from home and I'm used to being at home ON MY OWN. I get stuff done, I like having the house to myself, I just want to be on my own.

Instead I've had months of DH working from home too for the lost part, the youngest learning from home and the eldest working shifts so in and out

I've realised I need to be alone to gel energised. How about you?

@Tweaker exactly! I can - and do - sit in our other living room. I go for long baths each night. I often pop upstairs and either send some emails from the bedroom or read

But it's not restorative as another poster just said. I've realised I need one at work, one at school and the other I can probably cope with! She has a full on shift job plus she's moving out soon ish

I just need that 9-3 definitive back I think. And then I feel guilty because give it 5 years and both kids will have moved out potentially.

So I shouldn't moan. I'm lucky - we've got a nice garden and the house is big enough too

But AAGHHHHH I just don't want to see my husband for literally all the hours there are

I have been alone since last January (before Covid) as I lost my job and had a car accident a year ago.

I went out three times over the summer with my friend but aside from that I have only been to the pharmacy once a month.

I miss my old life so much but I never thought that I would spend a year with so little human contact.

I think the major problem now is that everyone is being forced to extremes and yet because of Covid you haven't got any means of relief.