To really hate DH working from home?

[manysummersago]

I’m sure I’m not the only one struggling with this.

He is sat in the dining room 830-6 every weekday. He seems to take more space than he actually does.

I hate feeling that he’s listening to everything I do and say. It just feels like I can never just be!

I am sure OP you are not alone in not liking this. Especially if 'work mode' means a different kind of behaviour, conversation and language.

Though don't only blame your DH, blame the man who is responsible for it being four weeks more, the Prime Minister. And don't forget when it comes to voting.

We have WiFi issues. If DH has an important meeting we have to limit use.

I've worked from home for 5 years. During the first lockdown my partner did too. He was up in our bedroom at my desk. Went up at 8am stayed til 6pm while I worked and homeschooled. There was literally no change from him being in an office. But he still hated it and despite being on the shielding he went back to the engineering firm he works for after the first lockdown and hasn't worked from home since. I've slightly wished he would work from home to help more / do the odd pick-up but this thread has persuaded me we have had lucky escape.

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cappucinoandcars

They need to find a solution to this as it's really not fair on your son. He should be able to log on to Xbox when he gets home from school. It's a home not an office space.

Sky say it's up to the University IT dept. The University IT dept say it's Sky 🙄

I truly sympathise with the OP I love my own space and my wife is constantly under my feet.

I long for my freedom! Why do we have to permanently live together as the default setting for relationships? I really favoured just meeting a few times a week

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thevampireswife

That sounds awful. I really don't think it's fair on people to have to creep round their own homes like that.

It's a shit situation certainly but it's nobody's fault, it's just how it is. It'd be a lot easier if we had some outside space!

Can't imagine how much more difficult it must be for people in a similar situation but with DC, too (DD is an adult/student).

@FakeColinCaterpillar

We have WiFi issues. If DH has an important meeting we have to limit use.

I can't go into the bedroom to watch stuff on my tablet because while DH is working the signal is so weak it won't stretch that far. He's on calls all day which seems to hammer the WiFi. If I attempt to use any devices in the main room it often messes up connection.