To be angry DP doesn’t remember what lockdown was like for me.

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We have two DC. Youngest is in Reception. I commented to DP that youngest is making faster progress with learning and that it’s not surprising because eldest was in Reception in lockdown and wasn’t actually there a lot of the time.

DP said ‘oh but that doesn’t make sense. School was only closed for the odd week here or there’.

School was actually closed for fucking months and I was on my knees. I cannot believe they don’t remember and are so casual about this time of our life.

Our eldest has some additional needs and lockdown was really, really hard going. I took time out of work to look after the DC and my mum had just died. So I was on my own with the DC all day while DP worked upstairs. Eldest DC was often quite violent during this period.

AIBU?

Wow. It says a lot about how involved he is with the kids he remembers months of children being stuck at home as a week here or there. He should be embarrassed about getting that so wrong.

Jeez!

I'm in Leicester so we had 'local lockdown' just as everyone else was starting to re-open, schools closed in March, didn't re-open till September and then closed again the following January till after Easter holidays.

We were working full time from home with a 5yr old, no furlough and actually my work cut our salaries by 20% to combat the financial effects so I was working full time while 'teaching' a 5 yr old for less money.

It was one huge head fuck! How your partner could have forgotten it all is a bit beyond me.

It was one huge head fuck! How your partner could have forgotten it all is a bit beyond me.

OP says herself her partner carried on working as normal, just from home.

It was similar in our household - we don't have children but DH carried on working as normal whereas I had to close the physical side of my business for three months. We both had very different experiences of lockdown through no real fault of our own.