This maybe a bit of a rant, but it’s getting me down.
My child’s (2years) dad has no contact.
I’m very lucky as I live next to my mum in a very, very rural area and during lockdown we’ve all been isolating for 6-7 weeks now only leaving to collect click shopping every 2 weeks. We haven’t had to leave even for our daily exercise due to a garden. We are very lucky.
we have been over for coffee, at my mums, only once we’d all completed isolation for 2 weeks to make sure none of us had the virus. We spend an hour a day next door. But other family members and friends, who have partners and lodgers keep trying to tell me how hard it is for them to, doing everything “alone”…. I get what they are implying. Probably thinking my mums and partner are having my child everyday for hours whilst i sunbath, not the case! Apart from that hour for a coffee, where I am involved, maybe not watching as much as usual, as there are three pairs of eyes and not just mine. I have absolutely no down time. My down time normally is work, I have no alone, adult time at all.
dont get me wrong I’m loving the time with her, gardening, painting, cooking, dancing etc…. but to put it bluntly, I haven’t had a piss by myself since the beginning of isolation/lockdown! Or just a piss without a little voice shouting “what you doing!” One real bonus of being at work! Those minutes alone and in silence are priceless 🤣
Does anyone else feel this need to scream at people who have one or two people who can put there child to bed, comfort them during a nightmare, wash up, Hoover, cook dinner, washing, have a shower alone or just someone else to think of things to do during the day to entertain them?
rant over!
take care all
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