big little fights

I've been stuck at home with my mother for 5 days now. We usually butt heads at the best of times but this quarantine time has definitely accentuated this, as it's not even 12pm yet and we've already had 3 full blown arguments about minuscule things (such as me loading the printer with paper).

another marriage story

Everyone thinks I have the perfect life. I’m married to an amazing, handsome husband (think Jack Pearson)... I have the perfect honor roll, athletic kids. We go to church, have a beautiful home, a great circle of friends. Except I have been having an affair with a man at work for the past year and a half. He lives with his girlfriend. And now we’ve just been notified that work has been canceled for the next two weeks. Possibly longer. Could be until August. We had just finally admitted we were in love last week. And now, we can’t even communicate. Social distancing equals break up equals no closure.

seven weeks in heaven

my boyfriend was in la for a semester-long internship and told me on feb 13 that he might be staying there (i live in nyc). it almost broke us up on valentine’s day - he wanted to keep up long distance no matter what, but LDR no end in sight was a dealbreaker for me, and i was heartbroken. i decided to stick it out for a few more months until it was for sure. in that time, corona happened, his work went remote, school housing shut down, and he flew home to quarantine with his family. because i am also spending this time with my parents, we are now only a few hours’ drive from each other. i hate myself for it but i’m so fucking happy. we had facetime sex in the bathroom. i’m in love

doctors make the worst patients

I'm in a high risk group because I'm immuno-compromised.
My housemate is trying to persuade me it's OK for her to see her boyfriend (who is a doctor) because we can 'just keep to our own rooms for a few days'.

*simon from RHONY* just because i am a man, doesn't mean i can't be a housewife!

Day 9 - Instead of saying hurtful things to each other when tension and anxiety is running high, we have taken to yelling Housewives quotes at each other.
"You're such a fucking liar Camille!"
"Close your legs to married mens!"

We are both grown men.

marriage story

WARNING! Venting session comin’ at ya!!

So all day I’ve been trying to get little things done around the house that i wanted to do...things that made me happy. Like refill my diffuser, change the duvet cover, decorate the guest bedroom...However My hubs and my husky kept following me EVERYWHERE! It literally feels like I have two toddlers! Nonstop talking - nonstop interrupting - nonstop barking. 😡 And I can’t escape.

Then just now I was in the kitchen, prepping for dinner. Hubs sits down at the island and watches me. Just sits and stares. He then proceeded to ask “what are you trying to make” in a very unfriendly and demeaning tone. I told him not to worry about it that I was making it and he should just be happy. Then he proceeded to continue to sit there and watch me finish all the prep, put the dish in the oven and start to do the dishes. I finally slammed the pots down and said “I need to get out of here” and walked away and went straight to my bedroom and locked the door!

This quarantine shit is gonna lead to divorce papers!!!! 😫🤯😡

absolutely mad (men)

I worked at this pretty exclusive ad agency. About max 115 people, we work with a lot of exclusive clients/projects.

So in light of being quarantined, on Monday, without absolutely ANY warning, the company decided to lay off 45 of its best employees w/o severance. And wanna know how they broke the news? Over a FUCKING video conference call, where they invited all 45 people to sit in a google hangouts meeting titled “COVID-19 Updates”, turning off everyone’s microphones besides the head of the company. They couldn’t even bother to call everyone individually.

Some of these people are the most talented, kind, and hard working people I’ve ever met. Some had been there 4 months, others 4 years. 45 people, and I was one of them.

But it’s whatever, most of the people left working there are too stuck up and self absorbed to even reach out to the rest of us to make sure we’re OK.

We don’t need em anyway, we’re in this and out of there together!

trade-offs

My husband of five years is an economics lecturer. He's a great husband, but now he's teaching from home and I have to come to terms with the fact he's The Embarrassing Teacher TM and makes Embarrassing Teacher Jokes TM and I have no choice but to live in his classroom, since our home is very small.
I never wanted to learn this much about economics, nor indeed about my husband.

social distance makes the heart grow

My long-distance ex and I broke up in June, really broke up in August and fully stopped talking in November--until we started talking again in January. Somewhere in between he started dating someone else and I suspect they now live together.

Though we've been good at only talking sporadically, in the midst of my solo-self isolation I checked up on him, and that morphed into a pretty constant dialogue. And so, now we talk (a lot) and since our relationship was largely spent at a great distance, this feels all too familiar. But I live alone! And also love mess! so maybe his co-living social distancing isn't going so well.

Me, alone, I'm doing great, but I really need to get over him.

hitachi magic wand sponcon

Broke up with my boyfriend of 8 years and bought a new vibrator right before the world fell apart because I knew which one I wanted to spend the lockdown with😏

on the lockout

My husband and I are both working from home now. We are in a one-bedroom apartment, so he works in the bedroom and I work in the living room. I like to take breaks throughout the day to check in on him and on day 3 he is apparently already sick of me.
I tried to go in the bedroom and he had locked the door and wouldn’t open it!

healing takes time

I'm in a relationship that wasn't going that great. Last week i've been really sick, and my boyfriend's reactions just, as usual, so disappointing and rude and mysogynist. I was thnking to take a break, but when I'll get better (i couldn't breath and it was really stressful so it wasn't the time). Then the quarantine, so i decided to take things cool and say nothing until it's over (cause of course we live together).

Day 4 : just did a huge speech and cry and all about how and why i can't be with him anymore. now he's like not really talking to me. it's gonna be long

working it out

She never went to the gym, but now she’s doing home workouts in my living room.. what did I get myself into. ( it may be over)

love in the time of

My boyfriend and I just said "I love you" 2 weeks ago, and then COVID hit. He's a doctor working in hospitals where there are coronavirus patients. Basically, I don't know when I'll see him again. I'm wavering between "I will see him again soon it will be ok" and "It could be months I'm going to lose it." I'm so sad but also so happy but also so scared for him. There's little to no guidance for partners of doctors, I'm trying not to feel like this is the beginning of something awful. I already miss him so much but know he's doing important work. Please everyone, take the measures seriously so the people who love doctors can see them again.

going on 30

he wakes me up with coffee in the morning, always kisses my forehead, and sitting here in the smell of his greasy baseball cap I wear. my husbands been working 7 am to 11 pm at the hospitals as he works to move staff to prepare for every bed filling up. i had just returned from a 2 week trip away and thinking how it was so great to have some time to myself alone, to now being too much time... so I take a walk and cute babies keep walking by waving their baby hands out their strollers as I walk about. And I just melt like most basic white girl ever wishing I didn’t have to keep 6 ft from this frickin’ adorable baby. Guys, these are serious times... while half of us are probably going to get divorced.. the other half’s probably gonna end up pregnant.

home from the holidays

So I've hooked up with my roommate. then he gosthed me durning the holidays. he just came back home, because he lives here and pays rent. and we are stuck together in this house.

only in santa cruz (alternately: you see, i see: you see, SC)

Today the second day of Spring 3/20/20 I finally left my home to go take care of some business but, when I got to downtown Santa Cruz, CA, I was shocked that it was a “Ghost Town!” Stores were closed, most businesses closed, the SSA closed and the city library was closed! I couldn’t believe it and I was shocked. I ran into my Crystal Healer friend and the first thing he told me was, “Don’t have any FEAR. Don’t walk in fear. Stand or sit or lay out in the SUNLIGHT as much as possible. The sun kills germs and viruses etc. The SUN is powerful. Stay calm as this is more healing for you. And turn OFF the radio and TV because that will instill more fear. Don’t let fear get a hold of you!” Well, I had to agree with him. These ways of being will help a person to overcome their fears. Fear destroys our immune system. He told me this pandemic and the fear behind it will make more people sick. So DON’T WALK IN FEAR. Build up your immune system with Vitamin C and the sunlight and healthy organic food and herbal supplements etc!
This is good and healthy advice from my Crystal Healer friend whom I respect and love very much. He is a leader/healer! May God bless, heal and prosper all people on planet earth!!!

being blue out of the blue

My partner and I moved in together in January. So far, so good. However, this quarantine situation has my exes crawling out of the woodwork with well wishes and recollections that I know he isn't fond of.

One ex writes, "We were in and out of each other's lives in less than the space of 2 years, but it feels enormous. I will make a confession: I ran a data recovery program on my computer trying to find 'that one video I deleted,' but couldn't dig it up. You are still my #1 [sex partner]."

After two years of nothing, another ex messages, "It's only day 4 of this stupid quarantine and I'm already going down memory lane. Still have so many photos/notes from you. Had a nice cry."

It's nice that this situation has been helping people open up and share their true feelings, but if you are one of my exes, please just keep it to yourself.

other side of the coin

So here is the tea. Moved in with my boyfriends parents 6 months ago. It is an absolutely hugeeee 9/10 bedroom house with a completely self contained flat at the top of the house that me and him live in. Soo they are millionaires, I am not. Before living there I was in a normal but smallish 2 bedroom house with my mum where we share just the one toilet (context for later). My mum is in her late 60s and is a carer for old people. So they have loads of extra space for self isolating if the need arises. They have the self contained flat at the top, a garage which is converted into offices and is the size of a small house and I'm pretty sure they have a couple of empty flats floating around London. Now they have his nan staying who to be fair is old and at high risk and is staying in one of the bedrooms in the main house. So, I accidentally got exposed due to work with the nhs. I went into a facility which has a coronavirus confirmed patient, who was locked up in another room. Went straight in, didn't touch anything and then straight out when I was told. Obv then profusely washed my hands. So, low and behold I am told that I cannot self isolate in the self contained flat at the top of the house or anywhere else that they own incase I give it to the nan, so I have to move back in with my mum. Now, I would understand this if this is a normal house. But it is a hugeeee mansion with a self contained flat, which I am meant to live and other resources on the grounds where I could stay too. But no, I was forced to move back in with my poor mum where it would be very difficult to completely isolate myself. I was told that it was nothing personal. So I have gotten out of that relationship straighttt away, don't need that every man for themselves attitude from a potential future husband!

the enemy

We’re very lucky, my sister and I. Our parents planned well, got plenty of groceries, games, movies, liquor. They didn’t think it would be that different from our normal spring break. And while we’ve had plenty of little fun moments, we’re four days in and we’ve had more screaming fights than my four years of high school combined, my sister and I versus our parents. Now my sister and I spend most afternoons and early evenings sneaking outside her bedroom window with glasses of wine plotting a stealthy getaway, while the parental team sits in the backyard smoking and presumably doing the same. They were grateful our rebellious phase never came when we were seventeen, unfortunately it appeared four years delayed, twice as strong, and during a nationwide lockdown. Although time is moving excruciatingly slow, things are changing fast. Today my sister and I fought, she turned to me and said “I never thought we’d be quarantined long enough to see you become the enemy.”

But we all make up when we remember the real enemy of the Coronavirus.