Still working but not a key worker

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My partner is not a key worker but I am. He is not the father of my children. His company still expects him to go out to work visiting various customers and says if he chooses not work he will not be paid. He is a workaholic and we need his income to survive as it far exceeds my own. I am worried about him and also worried about sending my children to school because he's not at home.

I have asked him over and over again to stay home but he won't because he won't get paid and he hates sitting in the house all day. I have said I don't want the children in school but this is not working either as he doesn't have a strong enough bond for that to be a reason to stay home.

What else can I do?

Chuck him out. The children are your priority. He’s refusing to do the right thing, which is to stay home.

And if he doesn’t have a strong bond with your children he shouldn’t be living with them.

You say yourself that you need his income, so what do you expect him to do?

To be honest I think that the longer term economic impacts of potentially losing your home will affect your children far more than having to still go to school at the moment. Public Health England has explained time and again that the decision to close schools will actually have a minuscule impact on the overall spread, its just that they have judged that they need that extra bit of impact to help suppress the curve.

What does he do? Is there any way he can work from home at least a couple of days a week? Are your children old enough that they could be trusted to entertain themselves one or two days a week?

What do you expect him to do? If he has a job and he cannot work from home, then he has to go to work - like everyone else. Or he resigns his job and he has no income.

I sort of do understand but I cant help worrying. He does have underlying health conditions too. I just hope his work sees sense and allows him to work from home. Children are too young to stay home on their own.

I just wanted to have a whinge about the situation. I know nobody can help really.