To ask how your life changed since 2020?

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Did your life get better or worse since covid happened ?
Mine definitely got worse. Made redundant from a job I was very comfortable in and which I had been in for many years. My colleague passed away at the age of just 39 (Lockdown became too much for her 😞) and DH diagnosed with a second chronic disease which caused a strain on us all. Life just feels very different now in a way I cannot describe. I wish more then anything to go back to 2019 life but I appreciate not everyone feels that way.

Life has changed a lot but I don't think Covid made any difference. We have moved house, DC1 started school and we had DC2. I closed one business and set up another. Financially I did well with some investments so we are more financially secure.

DC1 was a toddler in lockdown and doesn't remember it now, and in hindsight wasn't affected much as it was only the first lockdown that she was very restricted. Later lockdowns she was in nursery so life was fairly normal. Nobody I know was affected in terms of health

I now work from home, which I love 80% of the time. 20% of the time I feel lonely and cut off.

I've got a beautiful dog now whom I adore.

I suffered 2 horrible bereavements, which was absolutely awful but overall has made me stronger.

I've gained weight.

I go out a lot less.

I use public transport a lot less.

I cherish my friends and family a lot more and find it much easier to tell people I love them as I learned through Covid times that nothing is promised.

I still do the odd facetime as it's actually really convenient.

I overall care a lot less about the small stuff.

It's a really mixed bag. I definitely feel like a different person, in both good and bad ways.

I am happy and settled now with a kind and caring partner. I socialise loads less though. I think it's partly post-covid and partly being settled. I see the friends I really like but I don't go out lots. I used to love going out lots and now I don't.

So sorry for everything you've been through.
I obviously wish the pandemic didn't happen, such a tragic loss of lives, but the lockdowns immensely improved our lives and we wouldn't want to go back to 2019.
We've lost weight, eat healthier, have more active social lives, enjoy life more - mostly due to working from home. Not having to commute and being able to do housework before work/on my lunch break has saved enough time to change our lives. We get more work done at home so we're doing better at work, working more efficiently, moving up in our careers.

Not that different for me - same job, house, DH, kids a few years older. DH and I both wfh more than we did before Covid which is a positive.

Oh better overall for sure. Start of 2020 I was a couple of years married and living in New Zealand for (their) summer season, we came back just prior to lockdown. Now I’m still v happily married, still running our own business which has grown enormously, raising our toddler son, added another dog to our gang.

@HellonHeels I am so sorry 💐

It’s hard to know if our life would have taken this turn if Covid hadn’t happened, but we bought a house in my U.K. home village in January 2020, and by the end of that year, we were living over the other side of the world back in DH’shome country.

I WFH, which I definitely wouldn’t have been able to do pre-Covid and I love it. We have a beautiful golden retriever, we live by the sea and DH has started his own business. DCs are thriving. I do think hand on heart if Covid hadn’t happened We probably wouldn’t have made the move back over here and I’m so glad we did. Our quality of life is 1 million times better.

My life is definitely much worse since before Covid/lockdowns, as is my Husband’s. Finances have been greatly affected, as has our lifestyle and my mental health.

I started writing down all the changes on here, and how I feel now compared with then, but then deleted it all, as it was all far too outing! If I deleted some of the details it wouldn’t have made proper sense. It was actually extremely therapeutic to write it down though, as usually of it just whirs around in my head.