::Weekly Vent Thread::

Myself and all three kids had covid last year. Somehow, despite treating negative several times, you were "just as sick as us" and I had to take care of myself and three kids.

You ignored tooth pain for weeks until it got to the point that three teeth needed to be pulled on extremely short notice on a week where I had so much happening at work. Ok, I'll make it work. I always make it work. You can't take your meds because then you can't get pain meds. Ok. Great. Now myself and the three kids get to deal with you being an asshole because you're in pain and unmedicated. Fuck. Ok. Fine. We'll get through it.

Oh. You have Covid. Well fuck, that sucks. Covid is awful and you just had three teeth pulled yesterday. I hope you feel better. I'll call out of work today and beg them to let me work from home because you're the stay at home parent and we have three kids. That's part of being a partner and that's fine. Go ahead and isolate and I'll bring you everything and you rest because that's what partners should do for each other when they're sick.

The toddler has a fever. I can't focus on anything and feel achey. Great, me and the toddler have covid too. I also have 2 other infections. This sucks. Ib get to be very sick, take care of a covid toddler, try to keep the older kids from getting covid and keep them fed and alive and entertained enough. School? Nope, I don't have the mental space or energy to get them there. I can't do it. I'm just going to have to be the bad parent on this one. And here I am with covid, trying to take care of everyone while you're an unmedicated, sick, uncaffinated asshole.

I had a work meeting today at lunch time. I sit myself in the bedroom for 1.5 hours and did it. I came out and you had managed to feed everyone which was great, thank you. Except you didn't make anything for me to eat, and I spent 45 minutes dealing with the kids being kids and you needing to talk through concrete repairs in the basement. I have covid and 2 infections and I'm so hungry. I don't have the mental space to make a plan for how to do minor repairs to the basement right now. I can barely navigate remembering to take everyone's temperature. Please just leave me alone and let me feed myself.

/r/ADHD_partners Thread