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Alli's avatar

I feel this in my soul. We don't have kids but have both been working from home since March and it....wasn't even a conversation that my husband turned our guest room into an office and I'm at the dining room table. At the time it made sense because his setup involves 3 monitors and mine is done on a laptop, plus his company announced nobody was coming back until after 2021 back in June while mine keeps throwing return dates out there so my setup has always felt more temporary. And it's not like we're having people over and need to use our dining room anyway...

What's really interesting is that I'm the main breadwinner in our marriage but also think nothing of emptying the dishwasher during the workday or doing a load of laundry because, well, it's RIGHT THERE and I can't shut a door and ignore it. And it didn't even occur to me how easily I fell into that until I read this post!

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

Well, I'm reading this while homeschooling my kids at the kitchen table and trying to fit in some work, while my spouse has taken over the office (which was always technically shared but was mostly mine). To be fair, this situation kind of happened because he's on video calls all day and I'm not. But still. Frack.

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