How strict are you social distancing with family?

[Justwantacuddle]

Name changed. Hard hat donned. Truthfully, how strict are you personally being at not giving select few, closest family a cuddle? Letting them hold your baby? I haven't broken any rules, but I'm struggling to keep that up with my nearest and dearest.

[2beautifulbabs]

In wales and I can't even see my own family sodding 5 mile rule I'm desperate to see my parents and brother and for my DCs to see them

Come on Welsh minister bloody help us out and allow us to see our loved ones allow us to have a bubble where we can stay with them and socialise only with them.

[DisobedientHamster]

Not at all. We all isolated the first month and then after that have been carrying on as close to normal as possible. Use your common sense. FFS, don't hug your family but people have been carrying on with affair partners and hook up sites left, right and centre. I'd rather take my chance with this virus than live like that. 'Social distancing' is unworkable long-term.

[Pootle40]

No not making a point of following them. If we happen to be sitting roughly two metres apart in the garden then so be it. But I'm ok with hugging and PILs hugged our children when they visited two weeks ago. My children have played outside with friends from same household but they have definitely touched each other while playing. Haven't given it a second thought.

[Pootle40]

And someone asked if the huggers would self isolate if had symptoms or were contacted by track and trace. I absolutely would 100% but otherwise not living my life like a freak.

[Nonnymum]

We meet my daughter and children outside. They are very young though and it's impossible to make them stay 2 metres apart from us. There have been no hugs but there has been touching I can't reject my 2 year old GC when she put her hand in mine to hold. Or when she came behind me and put her arms round my neck. We have followed all the rules very, very carefully up until now and we only meet in the park. I am sure the Governmnet must have realised that families meeting small children will break the 2 metre rule.

[MayFayre]

We are but it hasn’t been difficult for us. We don’t have family nearby so there’s no temptation to meet up or pop and go into houses.

However this weekend we were invited to a family gathering where numbers are already at 7 and others have been invited (potentially up to 13 plus us 4). We said no because you’ve already got more then 6! We’re now being seen as killjoys and miserable.

[EsmeeMerlin]

I and ds1 have met my mum in a park and sat in my nan’s garden. We did go inside to use the toilet but generally stayed outside and did not hug either. I did not take ds2 because he is only 2 and can not social distant.

Have just had ds1 crying his eyes out this afternoon. We went on a walk and saw his best friend helping his grandad fix a fence in their garden. The boys were desperate to play in the house. Ds1 does not understand how he can go to school tomorrow but can’t go in his friend’s house or my mum’s house who he is really missing. I don’t know how much longer i’ll be able to keep it up without breaking rules.

[EsmeeMerlin]

On Monday that should say, he goes back to school Monday not tomorrow.