Something wrong with me, loving lockdown

[Coronackered]

I love that nobody coming toy door, I live that I don't feel obligated to visit family, only thing I'm hating is they're phoning me more often. I have a lovely family what is wrong with me 😭

The birds are happier, the air smells sweet and clean there's hardly any traffic on the road, all those stupid chelsea tractors are grounded 🤣
and no aeroplanes it's bliss I'm loving it💙

Now I've stopped I'm actually starting to process a few things. I've had a few well over due tears the ladt few days, over dtuff ive mot emotionally acknowledged before so have I. I think its been very good for me.

I am a homebody so this suits me as well . Myself and DP have a hectic life , self employed and carers for his mother who has dementia and is an alcoholic so not fun.
I thought I would enjoy it more but we have all be ill going on three weeks now so doing nothing but getting out of bed and laying on the couch while trying to stop 2 teenagers killing each other and stressing that my house looks like a hurricane has hit it 😡

Im loving it, but my dcs are older so are much easier to care for. If they were all little I would be struggling. Really feeling for those stuck in with little ones, especially with no garden, must be awful.

At the moment I'm loving it. We find every single weekend that so many people have demands on our time - we have to see my parents, and FIL and MIL separately because they're not together, and that's every weekend. MIL is extremely demanding and needs jobs done every weekend. Last time it took 6 hours on a Saturday then we had to see FIL and my parents on the Sunday as well as fitting in everything we needed to do. The weekend is the only time we can do a food shop. So yes, we are enjoying it at the moment. I do miss seeing the family but the normal pressure is just too much. We never get time just for ourselves and we have to rush to be out all the time.

I wasn't enjoying it at first - the shock at the sudden change to all our lives was too much, plus the thought of trying to homeschool was horrifying, and for the first ten days I felt dreadful - started isolating nearly a fortnight ago after developing a dreadful cough.

But now I'm loving it. In normal life I play a lot of different roles for different people or groups and they only ones I'm ever really just myself around are DH and the DC. Just getting to be me and not having to "perform" is such a relief! It's actually making me quite anti-social - my heart sinks every time someone contacts me at the thought of having to "turn it on" for them, I wish they'd all leave me alone! I miss my mum and wish I could give her a cuddle. That's about it.

Plus, I'm getting to do things I never normally have time for. I've started knitting. Yesterday I watched The West Wing for three hours. Right now I'm having a soak in the bath. Honestly, my main worry is that when this is all over I won't want to go back out and face the world again!

I think it's great you're enjoying it. Happiness feels like a precious commodity these days so enjoy it : )

My incredibly introverted husband is also quite content. I'm feeling claustrophobic and sad for my kids who miss friends and family.

This is a nice thread. Thanks op.

It will get boring eventually.

Enjoying not having the in laws pop by and expecting to be entertained I must admit....

I'm loving it too. I've always been a secret introvert and homebody living with a larger than life extrovert. Circumstances mean I'm getting the lifestyle I love, with a huge plus, not being able to spend time with my aged, moany parents.

So I can garden, cook, knit, sew and read to my heart's content and FaceTime with other family and friends.

Not a boast, a recognition that we're all different.

Still working but on the phone and computer.

I have no idea why people are writing such nasty things OP. I guess they're jealous.

I’m enjoying not having the pressure to be ‘doing things’ all the time. I see constant social media content of families with jam packed weekends and often feel a failure as a result.
I’m enjoying a little break from that feeling

Loving it too
Self employed and business is closed ( holiday cottages ) so I should be worrying about money , but I’m not
We wanted to sell up and retire , can’t sell up now , obviously but the practise retirement is going well
Just worried about DD , who was working in Spain , got back just before Spain locked down and is now unemployed with no chance of a job for a while ( she’s not bothered though , enjoying watching Netflix all day , going for a walk with us , and I’m teaching her how to cook )

I’m an introvert, I’m quite happy staying at home.

Of course, I don’t enjoy worrying for friends and family, particularly those working in the NHS. Terrified for them. I am sad for my children missing out on all their usual clubs and sports. I love taking them to those (as long as I don’t have to speak to too many people ).

No, this is not 'a nice thread'. This is a gloating thread on which those of us who are really suffering have been told we are 'haters', 'knobs', 'nasty' etc etc.

OP - no, you don't 'love' the gym given that not being able to go obviously doesn't bother you at all.

I go to the gym every single day, as well as walking several miles. It is an ESSENTIAL part of managing my eating disorder. Since my gym shut, and my exercise has been so restricted, my ED has flared up hugely. I've lost half a stone already and I can feel it getting worse.

I ordered gym equipment two weeks ago and there's no sign of it ever being dispatched.

I know lots of friends and family whose mental health is being utterly destroyed in other ways, and that's not even including those who are suffering directly as a result of COVID 19.

This thread is just an opportunity for smug people to boast about how great it is for them while many others are suffering hugely, and to tear strips off anyone who disagrees.

I also feel desperately sorry for my kids who are missing their friends and their activities so much. And my parents who are deprived of everything that was keeping them going.

Well bloody done you for not caring that you can't visit your elderly relatives. I do care.

Of coarse there are things and people I miss.
I'm still working more than full time but it's nice to come home and do nothing without guilt.

No, this is not 'a nice thread'. This is a gloating thread on which those of us who are really suffering have been told we are 'haters', 'knobs', 'nasty' etc etc.

OP is just sharing her own experience calmly, you don't have to agree with it you can just ignore the thread if it's not your cup of tea,
Instead you describe people on here as gloating, then go into a right old angry rant.

Sadly you are one of those people who come across a thread that does not exactly relate to how you are feeling now and trash us all, tar us all with the same brush.

There is far too much of this rage on mumsnet right now.

If you come across a thread that doesn't suit you just walk on by. I am sure there are plenty of other posts that you feel more comfortbale contributing too.

It isn't all about you. we are all different.

There are plenty of threads for people complaining about the lockdown - perhaps you’d be happier posting on one of those.

Different strokes for different folks.

God some people on here are right dicks.

Fuck me. How can someone lack so much self-awareness that they put both these sentences in the same post?

Circumstances mean I'm getting the lifestyle I love, with a huge plus, not being able to spend time with my aged, moany parents.
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I have no idea why people are writing such nasty things OP.

Oh and @leli , why wouldn't I be jealous of someone who claims to be so happy and delighted with a situation that is causing immense suffering for me and many others?

I had an operation on the 7th March I’ve been in since them which is now 3 weeks. I’m having a wonderful time. I usually work extremely long weeks. As a business wonder ( which has now had to close) I’m making the most of the rest. Also TTC so it’s good timing as my husband and I have nothing else to do lol

@madcatladyforever
If you come across a thread that doesn't suit you just walk on by. I am sure there are plenty of other posts that you feel more comfortbale contributing too. It isn't all about you. we are all different.

I didn't say it was all about me. I think posting a thread that says, in the title, how much you are 'loving' a situation that is causing huge, widespread mental, physical and economic distress, anguish, loneliness, hardship, pain and suffering for literally billions of people is, to say the VERY least, really fucking insensitive.

I'd go so far as to say it's pretty cruel.

And yes, OP. I do think there is something wrong with you to be so happy about a global pandemic that is destroying the lives of people across the world. I think that's pretty sick.

*I also feel desperately sorry for my kids who are missing their friends and their activities so much. And my parents who are deprived of everything that was keeping them going.

Well bloody done you for not caring that you can't visit your elderly relatives. I do care.*

Another unecessarily angry person, it's absolutely none of your business why OP feels like she's enoying this break, you don't live her life.

I'm enjoying a step back too, before all this I worked full time in the NHS - still do - on the frontline and spent almost every weekend driving 200 miles to do stuff for my parents instead of having a break and clearing up my adult childs messy life, paying off their debt etc.

I'm loving offloading my parents off to my siblings and letting my kid do some growing up without my input. It's great.

You won't die not seeing your parents for a few weeks.

Not 'loving' it but just used to it, just wish the deliveries would get back to normality so I don't have to venture out into the mayhem.

Do like the fact that I don't have to do my hair and makeup though and, yes, that nobody will be knocking at the door.