Are you arguing more or less?

[Makeitgoaway]

DH & I are both working from home. He has a heavier workload than me because his work is more or less as usual whereas mine has reduced but we both have a shorter day without the commute and no pressure to rush in and out again to other commitments.

DS1 is on Furlough, but happily keeping himself busy online and doing jobs around the house. DS2 is on an apprenticeship and is being set some college work to do at home plus regular team "meetings" with his employer.

So we have no stresses to speak of and are finding we all get along quite well. When we're more stressed there can be a lot of shouting in this house, which I know mostly comes from me.

It's really making me think.

More here, but we have a specific set of circumstances that is making it quite stressful. Three children under five, pets, a very small house, DH trying to work from home where there is literally nowhere he can sit in peace away from the children, other than on our bed which isn't really conducive to work, plus the baby sleeps in our room.

If DH wasn't trying to work it would be totally fine and we barely ever argue normally, but I'm run ragged trying to keep bored young children quiet while he works. The weather here also isn't as good as other places (we're in Scotland) so it's still quite chilly for them to be in the garden all day.

We are good communicators and generally get on great, but there have been some cross words in the last few weeks which is quite sad.

We don't normally argue and haven't since lock down either. We get a bit snappy with each other when tired/stressed at times and that has been similar.

That sounds tough on you all @mistermagpie