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Who's partners are still working from home? How are you finding it?

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Wintersnuggles10 · 28/11/2021 11:41

I am struggling with this so much. I have no right to complain at all but its hard and I have no where else to moan!
My husband worked out of the home every day before covid. Then it swapped to working from home where possible through 2020. It was so so tough having 2 kids off homeschooling and him working from home expecting absolute silence during his meetings etc. Luckily I'm a sahm so didn't have to worry about my work on that front. It was just something we all had to get through wasn't it? I didn't think it would be for long.
Life slowly returned more back to normal, kids went back, and husband decided he was going to work from home probably 95% of the time. He will go in now and again as he is senior management at a food production company. But he mostly chooses not to.for no reason apart from laziness which he admits. He has become extremely lazy. He doesn't get dressed or shower very often. He sits on the sofa under a blanket with his laptop and basically never moves. Never leaves the house. I feel absolutely smothered.
Before covid I suffered with depression and anxiety. Covid made it a lot worse. I am very introverted and I get very mentally drained being around people for a long time. I have to spend an hour or so by myself every now and again to reset myself and then I'm OK for another few days. Now I can't do this at all because there is always someone here. I have no life of my own because I don't work.
My son has just recovered from covid so I've had all that to deal with. Due back to school tomorrow. I felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Then it snowed. Now husband saying I'll stay home this week when he had planned on going in for a couple of days. I feel like screaming. I've had to come upstairs for a few mins. I feel terrible saying I don't want my own husband here! It's not his fault! Bit work and homelife should be kept seperate. It's just ground hog day with no end to it Sad

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DSGR · 30/11/2021 11:37

I don’t think you’re being fair at all. It’s kit your house and he’s just an inconvenience. He has as much right to be there as you do.
Surely you need to just carve out time for yourself - go to the gym, go for a swim, get a job, spend an hour a day in a coffee shop

Wellarentyouacleverdick · 30/11/2021 11:50

DH and I have compromised on him going back in two days out of four a week (he does long days).

Honestly him being here 24/7 was absolutely doing me in, and it was no good for his MH either. He'd often go 4 days without leaving the house. I'm a sahm to a preschooler and a carer to my school aged child. The children are much harder to handle when he's here. They make noise, they want him, it's all just too much. Pre covid he did 5 days, out of the houses 7am-7pm because of his commute. 2 days at home and 2 in the office works for us all.

I will cry if they reinstate 'work from home if you can' because then his work will not let him back in without a business critical reason because he can work perfectly fine from home. His work unlike lots of others are happy for everyone to wfh and most people do!

ColinTheKoala · 30/11/2021 12:09

Tell him to start working in the spare room office - that's what it's there for.

Make it annoying for him to work in the lounge.

And tell him to have a shower.

And if he makes comments about you daring to sit down, tell him to bog off.

Angel2702 · 30/11/2021 12:18

Mine hasn’t gone back and their office has downsized so only very rarely will they be in the office.

I don’t mind too much as it means he is here on time to help with kids clubs etc but he is working from our bedroom as we have nowhere else for him to work, which I find very intrusive.

It’s hard when the kids are home trying to keep them quiet as he is on video calls all day long.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 30/11/2021 12:46

He sounds like an absolute selfish arse!

He can’t have absolute silence for meetings - that’s not in. It’s a joke first and foremost, and he’s got a spare room to work in. He should go there.

If he’s able to go in, he should do or accept your home as he finds it.

He doesn’t get to pass comment on what you’re doing

Wintersnuggles10 · 03/12/2021 09:29

That's the other thing. It's so unhealthy for him. It's Friday today. The only time he's been outside this week is to collect our daughter from school on Monday night that took 5 minutes because I had a bad back. He has not stepped foot outside of the house since then. No fresh air, no sunlight on his skin, that can't be healthy surely.
I've had a better week this week, I've gone out every day and finished the Xmas shopping. I'm going to see my parents today and go for my booster Jab. I feel much brighter.

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hopeishere · 03/12/2021 17:09

Glad to hear you feel brighter!

I'm wfh and it can be hard. My world has shrunk.

What about a family walk this weekend?

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