When will we be able to stay with family?

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No real point to this post as I know no one knows the answer but I'm feeling so fed up.
I'm an only child and my parents live three hours away in Devon.
I miss my mum and dad and they're missing my toddler so much.
None of us are high risk and none of us have really seen anyone in the last nine weeks and yet we can't even meet up because it's too far. In reality the only way to see them is to go and stay but we can't because of the current rules 😭😭

The virus is never going to go away until there's a vaccine, so is that it for another six months, a year, two years?

And yes I'm well aware of the stay at home, don't mix, there are people dying and everything else that comes with it. I'm just feeling incredibly lonely being separated from the people I'm closest to and would normally see every couple of weeks.

I think the fact they mentioned that SAGE are looking into two households meeting in the recent updated guidance gives a bit of hope we can see some family in the near future. At a guess - early to mid June?!

It’s not going to be anywhere near that long I don’t think?

I’m in similar boat and desperate to see parents as they were due to stay the week after lockdown (obviously didn’t come) so haven’t seen them since Christmas. Desperate for them to see DD.

I can go without friends for a few more months but need to see my parents and happy for them to literally be my bubble! I’m hoping this will be allowed in June or July. If you keep it to one other household/small number of people (eg 2 parents) who have all been isolating and can travel by car Surely the risk is minimal.

My parents own and live in a big hotel so we can easily social distance and stay with them - I'm hoping we can stay alone soon. I'm worried about them rattling around on their own in there worrying about how their business is going down the pan

I’m similar OP but my partner lives in Ireland
Haven’t seen him since February. He is hoping to travel soon and would quarantine

I think it'll be shortly after schools go back...seems illogical otherwise that you can send your DC to school to mix with 15 others but you can't swap childcare with one friend/sibling/younger grandparents

Thanks everyone, it strangely makes me feel a bit better knowing I'm not alone.
Makes it harder when friends and colleagues talk about meeting up with family in their gardens but we have no option to even do that. Even DHs family are all in France and no chance anytime soon of seeing them.

Like a PP said I'd forgo seeing friends for a while longer just to see family.

We're going to do this before schoo, goes back. I'm in school tomorrow, then we're going to do a week of proper isolation, then going to go and see parents- who have also done a week of isolation. They are older and I don't want to see them after child and I have been in our different schools. End of half term is the safest time in the next 2 months for us.

@pfrench that sounds like a good plan. We were also going to go and stay for a long weekend but my parents have said neighbors are reporting second home owners and visitors visiting so rules it out.
DS goes back to nursery on 1st June so no idea what we'll get to see them