off the hook(up)
I have been madly in love with my co-worker for the past three years. We hooked up and decided not to pursue it further, however became very emotionally close over the period. Quarantine and work from home came into full effect and I find myself mourning our "fake" relationship while being quarantined as we try not to have out of work contact
However I see it as a blessing as its forcing me to break the emotional connection as well as focus on my marriage and children. My husband and I are definitely getting along better while we try and keep things normal for our young children in quarantine. This maybe the break I so despise needed and may save my marriage.
olfactory factory
In the grand scheme of things this just isn't important.... but I just dropped $250 on scent diffusers because the smell of my house is annoying me
the little bad
A few years ago, when I was still studying, we spent everyday together, as I went to his office with him. Little discussions here and there but we got along and it was great.
Now, we're both working from home and we spend everyday on the computer and cellphone and we barely talk to each other. I feel I've been looking a lot at the little bad things he usually does but, to be honest, my reactions have been the most we have been interacting so far. Not really sure what's going on.
man-child
Because of his flexible schedule, my husband watches our toddler during the week while I’m in a traditional office setting. Clearly now we’re all home together and he is playing video games all day while I balance working from home and entertaining the 2 year old. How did this happen? Why is this ok? I’m going to lose it.
getting shot down
My family and I were supposed to go on a beautiful trip to California last Tuesday, March 17th. We rented out a beach house in Venice that was just moments away from the ocean. For background: My family lives in Las Vegas, NV and I live in NYC. It’s been about year and a half since I’ve seen them and in this time, I now have a new nephew! So this trip was very much welcomed. By Sunday March 15th, as we all know, shit hit the fan. Around 8 P.M. my phone is going off but, I can’t answer as I’m at work. Finally after some free time, I’m getting messages from both my sister and brother in law, sounding frantic. Turns out California Gov. Newsom calls for home isolation, essentially shutting down everything from bars to gyms, restaurants to theaters. By 10pm, Gov. Cuomo essentially does the same. By Monday, I’m unemployed, so is my brother in law, and everything we had planned is absolutely cancelled.
But.. That was just the intro to the gossip.
Well in just 24 hours, out of nowhere, both my sister and brother in law become conspiracy theorists (we’re talking the kind using verbiage like “Deep State” and matching Apple icons to Illuminati type stuff), and gun nuts. My sister, on her instagram stories, shows she’s buying another gun. Perhaps if NYC had different gun laws, I would be viewing this differently but, even when I lived back in the west coast, I never agreed with the idea of guns. So to me, this feels a little extreme, especially with how abruptly it became a priority for them.
At first, I did my absolute best not to mention anything about the guns or how they look like nuts posting conspiracy theories. In my mind, civilization hasn’t collapsed, we’re just being told to stay the fuck inside! Well, my sister eventually asks me what I’m going to do, do I have food and water, do I have cash on hand? She’s genuinely concerned but, then she begins asking things like “How will you get out of NYC if all the bridges close?”, well, one thing leads to another and the subject of guns finally comes up and it all falls apart with us. She’s saying it’s to protect her family (sure, understandable), I’m saying it’s a little extreme to go from stocking up on toilet paper to mad max fury road on this whole situation. And well, the conversation didn’t end nicely. We haven’t said a word to each other since Tuesday. I don’t know if I’m upset or sad to know my family were like this but, it’s a bummer I won’t get to sed them anytime soon.. or maybe not? (No, i’m kidding!)
a different kind of social distance
Last March, I started a correspondence with someone. In May, I flew out to the east coast to meet him, & we both decided that we had feelings for one another. It has been a long-distance relationship ever since.
Our story is rather complicated, but the short version is: DD (boyfriend) currently going through a messy divorce, & I'm married to DJ (husband) who has terminal cancer & has been supportive of this whole thing. Because my relationship with DD has been purely email, call & text-related, & not at all physical, we've been able to build a foundation that is strong.
The big downside: there have been countless attempts to meet up with DD ever since May, & each & every time, it has failed spectacularly. Some of the blame is due to his job, which takes him away for 6-10 weeks at a time. But most of the blame has been due to his fears of actually being able to have happiness with me. We've cried, talked, & distanced ourselves from one another during these hard times ... but it's clear that we cannot function without the other, even in a friendly manner.
But now, things have changed. Since this virus hit, & having the relief of knowing he's back from Europe & safe in his home, he has been under mandatory self-quarantine (he's not infected, thank heavens). Yesterday he called me crying & said that somehow, his fears of being happy with me have completely disappeared. I can't explain it, but for the first time since this all started, I believe him. I felt it with him & we cried together for the better part of an hour over the phone. I guess when you're completely isolated like he's been, priorities shift & things that once seemed important become fodder compared to what really matters: love.
He's made up his mind to come out to where I am in the Rockies after his quarantine is up (on the 30th). He's finally ready. And what's even more striking is, it'll be on the exact 1-year anniversary of when our correspondence began. It's been dramatic for so long ... but now happiness can really start. Finally.
ration the wine
DON'T TOUCH MY WINE!! So, my fiance and I decide to stock up and stay in. Before this we make a list of projects, food and booze we will need to survive. He chooses beer. I chose my wine and we buy enough to keep us out of the stores for a bit. The other day ( our 3rd day in) I come upstairs from laundry and he is sitting on our patio drinking a glass of MY WINE. I totally lose it and start screaming at him as if he was the worst human being in the world. I am like " what are you doing? Why are you drinking my wine?? How could you do this to me???? You are so selfish!!! On and on. I didn't even know who I was, lol. He was like "I'm already bored with my beer so I thought I would have a glass of wine" ...pretty harmless under normal circumstances, but these are not normal times... so in true hysteria, I tell him he has to ask me if if wants a glass so I can monitor intake and gage how long I have till I am out. Then I locked it up and now, I AM THE ONE SITTING ON OUR PATIO WITH A GLASS OF MY WINE thinking "God the poor guy is in for it". He really has the patience of a Saint and I will try and share my wine, maybe... 💯❤🥂
the only science happening in my home is a sick social experiment
About a year ago, I was so sick of my husband playing video games in the living room that I moved his entire gaming setup into the home office that we never use. He loves the space now because he can do whatever he wants with it. Fast forward to Covid-19 quarantine, my husband and I are both working from home. He's a chemist and can't run experiments from our house. I actually need to work, but I can't because my husband won't stop playing Fortnite. The only science happening in my home is a sick social experiment.
twisted sister
My sister knows how scared I am of getting the coronavirus and she has begun to develop a cough. Every time she coughs SHE TURNS AND LOOKS AT ME. Every time I complain the rest of my family yells at me and I’ve resorted to going to bed at 7:00 every night.
hangry
Last week, on our first day of WFH and beginning of quarantine, my husband ordered a bagel off Grubhub and I didn't find out about it until it showed up at our door. He didn't ask if I wanted anything. I got shaky angry (hangry) with him and he acted like her had no idea why. I called him a cunt which I've never called anyone in my life.
another farting story
I am the kind of girl that has never and will never feel comfortable passing gas or number two-ing in the same vicinity as their partner (yes, I am aware I should get over this, but no, I don't think I ever will). The gym, the office, or basically anywhere else has always been my outlet. Let's just say that now, living in a 600 sq ft one-bedroom apartment with my fiance, I am miserably trapped. I have nowhere to *literally* go. This is not a drill. Thank you COVID-19 for fucking up my entire digestive system.
mom’s house, mom’s rules
I'm 24 and I still live at home with my mom. We have been quarantining for several days now, with me working from home and my mom continuing her tutoring job via Skype lessons. Amongst many other things I do that displease her, I like to smoke weed when I'm done working. Out of respect for my mom's home I always go outside the apartment building to smoke my joints. Last night she called me while I was smoking and said that since I had left the house, and since there's no way to know what I've been exposed to, I would not be allowed to come back inside. She said it just wasn't worth the risk, given that she's in the vulnerable age group . So I slept at my neighbor's house and this morning I went home to get my laptop for work. She stayed in her room while I grabbed my stuff. She didn't say anything to me. I think I'll be allowed back home once the virus outbreak has died down, but yeah, I guess for now I'm technically homeless.
here kitty kitty
I'm getting divorced, but thankfully my husband is not quarantined with me in our house. I live alone with my cat who really likes the sound of my vibrator. It's become a problem. I have to lock her in a separate room away from mine, otherwise she'll sit outside my bedroom door meowing loudly and scratching, trying to break in.
do HR rules apply during a pandemic?
Do HR rules apply during a pandemic? Day 4 and Late chatting via a popular app I am sent a dick pic... Intrigued and bored, I ask for a full body. To my surprise, it's my work crush of 2 years! We have made out drunkenly and secretly during two work holiday events, but haven't gone any further because he sort of reports to me. Corona be damned, Day 5 ALOT of HR and Quarantine rules were broken. I don't regret restarting my quarantine day count. This is my 3rd Day 1
stay home grandma
My 78 year old grandmother who takes blood pressure medication will not stay in her house and I live three states away, so heated phonecalls about not needing to pop in to discount tire while running around are pretty regular. How do I get a woman who has never listened to another person in her life to just stay in her damn house.
no true home
Would You Rather, mental health edition: a Tempur-pedic mattress and a roommate that plays awful guitar all hours of the day, or a shitty twin-sized mattress and a mom that stuffs your face with lasagna?
But how I really feel is like I have no true *home* at this moment in my life.
love on top
My boyfriend has been staying in my 350 sq foot studio apartment with me since the quarantine started. He sleeps until noon everyday while I hop on client calls at 9 am and I just couldn’t take it anymore. On the 3rd day I broke and sent him back to his place because we were on top of each other and I wanted to murder him as he kept sleeping and I had to get up and work.
...4 hours later I called him and begged him to come back. He did.
Can an eligible man knock down my front door and take me
I am in Australia.
Stuck with parents. They are nuts.
I am recently single and was LOVING life until I woke up in a whole new world.
Dad speaking in terms of “the wolf is at the door”- he is of course referencing the 3 little pigs.
Mum has told me to “lockdown a boyfriend in the next 24 hours”, to ride it out with.
Sat on couch listening to them discuss my dating prospects in this new age- mum “she needs to be touched, she’s 25, it’s important”.
Yes- I died. But also aggressively agreed. Dad naturally delighted by prospect of me being locked away from men!
Tensions among us are high.
I screamed “fuck you” at my dad for opening a packet of teddy bear biscuits that I had marked for “stores”.
Can an eligible man knock down my front door and take me.
At this point I’d take the wolf...