Anyone else teary tonight

[StealthPolarBear]

It's not like me. It's just hit me.

I feel really low. I'm in an abusive marriage. Not physical but emotional and financial. I'don't finally got my act together and was getting support and advice and now this happened. I also go out a lot to.meet friends to get away from the situation bit ill be trapped indefinitely. I'm so sad for my little girl. She was doing so well at school and now won't see her friends. Just devastated.

i suppose the big thing for me is there is no end

It’s this isn’t it? The uncertainty. The creeping awareness that life may never go back to the way it was - it will be normal again, but normal will look different. I really think this must be exactly what people felt like in 1939 when they gathered round the radio to listen to chamberlain declaring war.

Wetdog I know it doesn't help but I'm sending best wishes

Rockybooboo

You shouldn't have to stay because of the situation.
Maybe the benefit will be that you'll finally find the courage to do it?

I wonder how many marriages will survive social isolation.

Rocky it's stories like yours that really makes my heart hurt

Oh rocky

Oh rocky ☹ I'm so sorry you are in that shit position xxx

I'm so glad you've posted this. I've been really teary today and thought it was the hormones (27 weeks pregnant). I'm
Sure it will be fine. I just feel
Sad that I feel so anxious

Me too. Shit shift at work (midwife) and just not being able to buy loo roll is making me feel so sad!!

@StealthPolarBear and @CochonDinde, thank you. It does help. Talking about it helps soften it.

We must all pull together as much as we can. Keep talking. Keep skyping/facebooking/mumsnetting! To keep even keeled.

We may not have bombs dropping, but that doesn't mean the impact of this won't be felt. to you all this evening.

Yes I am. Nothing as bad you though @Rockybooboo and I am sure there are others like you.
I really feel for my kids missing out on seeing their friends and doing school and all their activities and parties. We had so much planned for the next few weeks - kids parties, my best friend’s wedding, holidays, anniversary, my birthday, now all cancelled. I’m worried about my relatives and I’m now going in to day 9 of self isolation with my family and it is getting tough. There isn’t really an end in sight either which is hard. I haven’t been upset at all until today. Watched the video of that 39 year old lady struggling to breathe and cried. MIL is still smoking and lives far away by herself.

I was yesterday and earlier. It's the schools closing, and then hearing they probably won't open until at least September, yes I know that's selfish. I can't help feeling upset by it all and all that children are going to miss out on.

Then it's the stress of worrying about our jobs and the implications.

Now I'm angry and frustrated at all the people ignoring guidelines thinking they're invincible going out to the pubs and all of that.

I was, last night. Feel a bit more with it, tonight. Knackered, though - watching the cadbury thing on more 4 with DS1 then heading to bed.

Teary here. Scared of loved ones dying. Scared that the food situation will be really dire in May/June and there won't be enough to go around. Scared DH will get really ill because he's a smoker. Devastated for all the Year 6s whose last few months of primary school have been snatched away from them. And angry, as from what I've read this might all have been avoided.

My cousin is heavily pregnant. I have no siblings so she and her sister are the closest I've got and this baby is the first baby in the family since mine, over a decade ago. I'm going to tell her I'm not seeing the baby until this is over and ask for Skypes, but we were all so excited about having a new baby in the family.

Yes, today has definitely been the hardest 😢 We’ve been in self-isolation a week due to DD having cough and fever last week. Just over a week ago life was normal. Now her preschool is closing tomorrow and I’m so gutted...the loss of her routine, a setting where she’s been thriving and the not knowing if she’ll go back there at all, I’ve been crying a lot today. My baby is due next month and alongside the anxiety of giving birth in these circumstances, the thought that most of our friends and family won’t get to meet them for potentially months is really upsetting.

Yes I was teary today as well. I can't quite believe how quickly things have changed. I feel so sad for my year 6 boy that he may not get to finish primary school, and for all three of my kids that they can't see their friends or do their clubs. I miss my own friends and family, going for coffee, going into shops without fear. But most of all I'm constantly worried sick about my dad who was really ill for a lot of last year, and all the people I love who are older. Life has changed so much in such a short space of time and it's sinking in that this is just the beginning really. It's going to be a long haul. (I was listening to Adele while I made the kids tea this evening which may have contributed to the teariness...)

The children playing in the playground at pick up. That's finished for months. They don't know. I'm heartbroken. Final day of normality tomorrow.

I think the anxiety is exhausting. And trying to keep cheerful for partners and kids and parents when you just want to hide under the blankets. I keep telling myself that this will end, and that every day we do of it will be one less day to do. I’m embarrassed that it feels so hard already, after three days!

Really overwhelmed. This will be an outing post potentially.

DH had a trip to A&E on 29th feb that resulted in them discovering a large, aggressive brain tumour. He had surgery to remove what they could a week later but we are still waiting for biopsy results, the prognosis and a treatment plan. If it is high grade - which they think it is - it is likely to be terminal. He is 46.

So, that news made me feel like I'd been hit by a bus. The waiting for results is awful now, compounded by being in isolation for the foreseeable future as he needs to stay well to access treatment.

Poor DS is Year 6 and will miss these last weeks at primary, let alone not having the comfort of going to school and seeing friends while his dad goes through treatment.

Dd, my daughter who is 21, has just applied for extenuation as she is in her third year of uni. She has Asperger's so lives at home and we are a very close family. I know she is scared for DH and the coronavirus news is panicking her too. She had leukaemia when she was younger so I think the fact we are having another cancer episode in our home in less than a decade is adding to the stress/misery.

I am scared for DH - his family want to come and see us but they can't as they are isolated too. We can't enjoy time together, apart from low key family stuff indoors. I can't really go anywhere with him. I would have liked some time away as a family. We did have a disney holiday booked which I've cancelled.

I'm WFH, full time, and trying to keep us functioning. I have chronic illness and I'm knackered. I'm worried that if I get it, it will finish me off as my stress has been through the roof since DD's diagnosis in 2011.

Fuck my life. I try to stay positive, but it is HARD.

I'm very teary tonight. I didn't get to say goodbye to my colleagues, left work as usual on monday then my son came home from school with a cough so we're self isolating. My son didn't get to say goodbye to his school friends, some of whom he won't see again. DH left his old job 2 weeks ago to start a new one at the end of the month, we don't know if that will happen now.
We have almost no food, can't get a delivery slot and can't go out. Life feels overwhelming and I'm trying to hold it all together but currently failing miserably

I was last night after dc were asleep, that everything has just stopped, all their outside school activities that they love doing every week just ended til we don’t know when, yes bigger things are happening but just so sad for all our dc everywhere that their world has changed beyond recognition at the moment

My hands are shredded from all the washing too. At least I've stopped using gel. That was torture :)

That was a big old post of misery

I just had a little sob when I saw the critical care nurse on the news crying because she had just finished a long shift and gone to the supermarket to be greeted by empty shelves

It kinda summed it up for me