I’m pregnant and have a 2yo. I’m a key worker and therefore potentially exposed to Covid but my workplace only allow me to work with patients who have had a negative Covid swab.
In laws are coming to visit soon who we haven’t seen since the start of lockdown. They will be travelling from an area that has high Covid rates and they’ve been using public transport and generally not very cautious about social distancing.
I’ve said, and DH is happy-ish to go along, that we will use one room of the house that is easy to clean and that we should socially distance. If DC approaches them then I wouldn’t pull back but they shouldn’t be entering her space or trying to initiate physical contact. I’ve also said we won’t share a car journey with them.
I’m getting stressed about this because I know that there will be comments or eye rolls about this being precious, controlling and ruining their time with DC. Would other people be thinking similar?
To avoid a drip feed - we have a difficult relationship with them and are new at asserting boundaries. I find them intrusive to personal space, so I’m relieved that there’s an opportunity to ask them to keep their distance due to Covid. It would potentially make the visit less stressful and intense, but I guess that’s the wrong reason to ask for social distancing. I think it’s a mix of that reason but also that I don’t think we’re exceptions to the rule, and we should expect social distancing if that’s what other people are doing.