Please bear with me. I love him. No divorce is wanted. This is a comedy share!
POST COVID LIFE!
Yes, he works from home a lot.
The day?
6:30 he’s on a meeting in the room across from me in a big loud computer meeting. 9:30 he’s making tons of bacon after I cleaned the kitchen. At 10:30 he’s laying his head in my lap and saying he is sick of his job. A few minutes later he pops his head in while I’m showering and says I’m sexy.
The meetings go on and I’m doing tons. At 1:30 he’s standing beside me while I’m exercising on the machine the Physical Therapist says I need and I’m scared and almost fall over. He says, sorry I frightened you. I finished the meeting and couldn’t find you. Please continue the exercise. (What makes him think after that close to heart attack he just gave me that I’m going to be able to get the machine back to this pace?)
Around 2:00 I sit down and read the prayer we were told to say for the needy. I look up and he’s naked, saying he finished the meeting, is done early. “Wanna fool around”? I say in my mind, I’ll be back to you, Lord, in maybe 25 minutes. And I put down the prayer card. Lol
I’m on my way out the door for errands and he’s says, where are you going? How does he think the groceries get here?
Then the stories about the job life start….
I love him. All is fine. But believe me, later on I pick up the prayer card and say, “Lord, I’m supposed to pray for others, but please God, take him back to working with his friends at the company. Amen.”
I’m looking so forward to retirement. It’s right around the corner. I can’t wait. My arthritis is just beginning and I can’t wait until we are both on the deck watching birds and no cellphone is ringing in the background from work!! And we rub the Aspercreme on each other.
Anyone else surviving work changes after Covid and doing well, but missing the good old days?
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Haha, this could’ve been me a few years ago. We’ve been married 16 years and I adore my husband. But I was used to him working outside of our home. I was used to the fact that every few months, he’d travel globally for a week or two for a work conference. When our kids were small, I hated the time he spent away and resented it, but as our kids got older and his career really did flourish, I guess I kind of just got used to it. The kids and I developed a routine for when he was away. Fun stuff, like breakfast for dinner, family sleepovers, that kind of thing. Of course, We genuinely missed him, and we were always elated to greet him home at the airport!
And then COVID hit and he worked from home and I found that I missed MISSING him! He was just always THERE.
His work eventually went fully remote for good, and now he works from home full time. And I got a job, so I could be the one to leave the house. 😂
He did step up in a big way on the home stuff, ordering groceries for me to pick up on the way home, doing laundry on breaks, and checking in with our now older kids to make sure they’re getting homework and chores done.
But yes, I can relate with missing that personal time!!
I can totally relate, although I don’t have it as bad as you! I’d like to write a long thing but don’t want to hijack your thread! Main thing is I feel like an entitled #%%#% for feeling this way!!