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Has anyone else not got anyone they desperately want to see after lockdown?

32 replies

sweetkitty · 30/04/2020 23:05

Just that really, people keep saying oh who will you be going to see first after lockdown and there’s no one I’m really missing. We don’t have any close family really and have always been on our own DH and I and our four DC. I have my Dad who over the years hasn’t been great, we see him maybe 3 times a year, if he visits he’s desperate to get away if I phone he hardly asks about us it’s all about him or more about how much he hates Boris and Donald. My SIL is a weird one she’s having a mid life crisis has reached 50 and is a grandma but in denial, she’s never out the gym and lives on kale and of course if you don’t you get a lecture and she hates the fact we’re younger than her (yes really)! Last year we kept asking to visit (we live an hour away) and kept getting excuses so stopped asking.

I have some close friends I’ll see but that’s about it, feel quite sad really especially for the DC having no grandparents.

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BamboozledandBefuddled · 01/05/2020 08:39

No-one for me. I've got DH home with me all day, every day Hmm DM has a flat in the same block as us and I'm her carer so I'm with her several times a day. No other family and I have acquaintances rather than friends. First visit I'll be making is to the dentist to get a broken tooth sorted.

nauseaandnipples · 01/05/2020 08:41

I'm not massively bothered about seeing people for myself but I'd love for my son to be able to play with his cousins and friends and to see his grandparents, uncles and Aunty.

Vitaceae · 01/05/2020 08:44

No. My parents are both dead, no other close family, one cousin who lives a long way away & we're not close.

DH talks to his mother daily to make sure she's ok. She hates me so I'm not desperate to see her Grin

We're fine as we are - me, DH & the DC. Just missing being able to go out & to see friends.

sweetkitty · 01/05/2020 20:31

I saw some work colleagues today our janitor opens the school every Friday for an hour, we’ve been collecting supplies for people in hospital (because they can’t have visitors they aren’t getting things like magazines, biscuits etc) so we put together care packages and took them in to be collected. Had a social distancing chat with colleagues today which was lovely.

I always get a bit down about having rubbish family, have just sent away birthday cards for people who don’t bother with us. Including a great niece who I don’t really get to see but think it’s not her fault so I chose a present and sent it to her. It’s rubbish that no one does that for my children and I don’t mean the present just acknowledging their birthdays but I think it’s my standards and what I want to do and I’m doing it not to get something back.

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Connie222 · 01/05/2020 21:01

No, no one.

I’m dreading having to see my difficult elderly father again though, he’ll be laying on the usual guilt trips and pressure as soon as he can (at least he can guilt me all he wants at the moment but I can’t see him).

peridito · 01/05/2020 21:05

I'm very anxious to see my twin who has ,since lockdown ,been diagnosed with an inoperable cancer with a poor prognosis .

Cecilia2016 · 01/05/2020 21:12

Yes I’m desperate to see my husband. He left home first week of January for work abroad and he was supposed to come back home before Easter but no flights from where he is coming out

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