Hi Cardinal, I took a little break from the board and now with the world changing, I thought I’d check in. I am in CA which is a lock down.
I do some work from home, but I don’t know if I can work away on Monday. (I work with a company that works for cities) so it isn’t possible I’ll be home for a month.
My H has drifted in and out since all of this virus blew up. I think he goes to drive thrus to eat away in the car. Our daughter came home from grad school so he has resorted to sleeping in the den. My daughter and I watch tv in my bedroom and leave him alone. He is supposed to travel for work on Sunday, which isn’t ideal, but if he can leave, he will go. Last week he traveled to Colorado. It makes me nervous, but I can’t be his mom. He was extremely sick after traveling to Mexico in January, and I wonder if he already had the virus. But regardless, this is hard. He is, in my opinion, having a hard time staying home. I am just doing my thing.
How does a WWS deal with staying home with the spouse they walked away from? Not very easily. I am content to be home, and our weather can be nice for walking. He has run away since the beginning of all of this, so I got used to a routine here. He didn’t. So I know this is hard.
I will say, as a plus to him, last week when things were ramping up, he went and bought a bunch of snacks for the house. That was nice and unexpected.
I hope you find a routine with having your H home more. I’ll be trying here, too.
PLC, I've been wondering how you are. This is such a strange situation for us all to be in! I don't know if my H recognizes the gravity of what's going on or not. I hope your H is able to settle into his own routine, and that it's less annoying than the routine my H seems to be setting up...
