Wife and I have been married one year. We both work (she in the office, me from home).
For the first month or so of quarantine we tried to make the best of things. Her department switched to work from home and my whole company did as well, so we spent time together, took lunch breaks together, and ended our evenings with movies and takeout a lot of the time. Well, that didn't last long. My wife went back to work after about a month (she works at a hospital) and I stayed at home, so loneliness set in. We lost interest in Netflix and takeout just made us gain weight. We delved into our individual hobbies and basically accepted the situation. Unfortunately, it's slowly starting to wear us both down. We both have at least some level of depression. I feel flat out despair sometimes about the state of the world. We haven't seen our families in months. We spent our first wedding anniversary eating tacos on the couch. We canceled our honeymoon and have no idea when it'll happen.
My wife wants to take a vacation. Something to break up the monotony, she says. First off, I can't think of anywhere 'safe' to go. Our parks are crowded, no one is wearing masks, plus my wife works at a hospital! A vacation sounds great but it's just not practical. Even a road trip, where would we go? So far the only thing that might possibly work is camping but that depends on how crowded things are, and neither of us even like camping.
My wife understands all this, but the situation made her cry. It sucked having to cancel a honeymoon and spend our anniversary on the couch. It sucks not seeing our family and possibly spending Christmas and Thanksgiving alone. But there's nothing we can do.
I still want to make her happy though. What can we do?
tl;dr my wife craves a vacation and it's just not safe
Submitted July 31, 2020 at 09:01AM by Aware-Minimum8174 https://ift.tt/3geXTUZ
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