The other day my partner came home with good news. “Everyone is miserable!” he said.
He’d just been at the pub, his first outing in over three months (he took the lockdown so seriously we started calling him Captain COVID) and had discovered that all of his mates were experiencing some “friction” with their partners during this pandemic. At the risk of sounding heartless, I must confess that I did indeed find this to be very good news.Not because everyone was miserable but because we were normal.
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Some context! My husband and I have spent four months living, working, eating, sleeping and exercising in a 90 square metre apartment.
There was a period of six weeks where we did not leave the house at all - not to shop, not to exercise (see Captain COVID reference above), which for the most part was fine except that in addition to this, he decided to start an entirely new business from scratch, with the help of precisely zero people, in a completely new area of expertise, across several international time zones, in the middle of a global pandemic. To use his words, “I’m the most stressed and anxious I’ve ever been” and “why did I do this” and “f***, sh*t, f***.”
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