Hi guys.
This weekend, wife and i got into it...... with all the shutdowns and lockdowns and assorted nonsense, the only change in my lifestyle is that sporting clay courses and clay venues are closed to non members.... and restaurants are mostly closed. Was never much of a vacationer or mall shopper.
Her..... well, these days have been harder on her. Alot of her joys have been denied her.
I spent the weekend at a family property moving stands and running around the woods all alone. Came home to hear all about it..... tempers are short. It'll all blow over, but the incidents are increasing.
Anyhow, i can't be alone in this situation, can I? Mid 40s and 2 boys 13 and 9 for reference. How are all your relationships holding up?

No

Lots of suicides...i think people who were on the edge got pushed over and are unable to get help like they normally would.

Hell i am more depressed and stressed out due to covid bullshat and the retard living in the white house and where our country is going. Wife and I have been sniping at each other more too.

No, not at all, but older and retired.

Nope, we don't honor or obey anything like that.
It's a fraud and we know it and stand up to it and so far all of those pushing the fraud have backed down when we tell them to call the police if they don't like it.

The cops don't come in Wyoming over this fraud. Our governor said such things would not be enforced.

No

Retired, both of us. Been around each other a long time. I probably piss her off daily, I'm a grump and she knows it. I don't do "feelings" well, so those get hurt too. Oops.

She takes some stained glass, fused glass, pottery classes in town that gets her away. And she walks the dogs more than I do.

But The Corona hasn't made much of a change in our lives.

All good here.I live in rural area. At our age,we don't do much anyway.Me thinks the problem maybe there with or without the lock down.This time should maybe be used in getting closer together and developing more communications with each other

Both essential!

Both working all but 12 days for her.

The most stress we have is putting on a stupid mask when entering a nanny state.


Mike

actually YES! everyone deals with this crap differently. I seek a sounding board. my wife holds it in. How can you not be stressed out when everyone around you has given up their freedoms without so much as a complaint. They continue to follow the government edicts about masks, when they have been vaxxed and or recovered. It seems like no one will question authority. We see people we know get vaxxed despite having recovered from covid. we live in the twilight zone. We have been separated from friends and people we know. vacations which many women really look forward to have had to be canceled in many cases. yeah I don't know how this isn't a huge stress on marriages. for me I try to get my wife talking, talking about her feelings gives her comfort, her being comforted will make you feel useful and make her feel better, look for things to bring you together. don't skip date nights.

holy crap I just saw you are from canada. I think canada should revolt right now. what his happening there is gestapo. what you feel isn't crazy. others are feeling this too.

I've committed suicide a couple times but otherwise pretty normal.

We dumpster dive and shop at yard sales , so no speed bumps in our relationship. People throwing away lots of good stuff now.

Other than mail ordering nothing has changed in my life, I deny the libtards of everything they desire.

We have been married for over fifty years and this bullshit has not been pretty for her but she has tolerated it fairly well. I have completely ignored it, have not changed my lifestyle one bit.

cath8r, I would suggest you take them two boys with you whenever you go into the woods, or anyplace else, give your lady a break.

Find any mower parts recently?

no issues here with the missus. 29 years, never a fight.

OK here... I'm sorry for anyone who's family might be really strained from this BS virus-control crap..

Hasn’t bothered Wifey and I. She works from home, I never quit going, stay out in barn if I’m home and she is working. She is easy to get along with. I got lucky when friend told me her friend wants to dance with me. I was thinking fat gurl, but she wasn’t.

life's normal in sodak

My life never changed. I never missed a days work over it and was never given the opportunity to work from home and neither did my wife. Other than SOS everything here is open and mostly has been for months. I refuse to wear a mask and have only been told that I have to a few times so I left.

I can’t see giving the government the power over this BS to let it impact my life. Probably bothers the retards that I see walking around outdoors with mask on that have bought in to the BS a lot more.

Honestly not a lot changed for us. We usually ate out once a week and went to the movies about once every two or three months. My wife did get to work from home for several months in the beginning, but that was good. Other than going to the movies, pretty much everything is back to normal now.

Nope, no issues. This Covid schitt is nothing compared to some of the early hardships in our marriage.

She spent a year in a 500 sq foot mobile home with three young children using a hand dug outhouse and water carried in from the well in five gallon containers.

Showers were with a hanging campers shower and water heated on the stove.

Things like that put a proper perspective on the world.

Momma has learned the joys of shopping from her phone. Damn!

Actually she is pretty conscientious about the budget.

Haha, retiring in 2013 caused stress. After about a year and a half, out of the blue, she told me I needed to go golfing with my friend Scott. WTH, The only tome I've ever been on a golf course was to drag hose across the fairway to get to a brush fire. I got it and went to work for BPS for about he year and she started riding horse so I quit BPS. No arguments though relating to the pandemic.

No change except we don't go out to eat anymore. We still go hunting, fishing, shooting hiking and walking the dog together like we always did.

Thanks guys.
Yeah, Canada isn't doing this thing right.... i have strong feelings about where humanity i headed... my biggest concerns tbh. We have both been working (thank you god!)... kids are home schooling, so that has been a little bit stressful. We are on solid footing relationship wise... just the sniping is coming up a little more frequently and I've been a bit of a grump tbh.
Thanks guys!

Overall, Divorce rates are up 50%, so yea, there's been an impact.

Not at all.

In fact, working together on our Victory Garden, bomb shelter, and day rationing has brought us closer together in these dire times.

Not all with my wife as we are similar in politics and attitudes to all that transpired in 2020 and on, but with my siblings, including a lawyer, two physicians, and a pastor, yes.

I expect they consider me, the oldest, just to the right of Attila the Hun. 😉

I should be clear, it’s not because of the lockdown here in Iowa —two are in other states — but the politics of the whole COVID scenario, and even long before, really starting with Obama.

no it was kinda nice when we were both home around the house. , even during the worst of the lock down, we did projects together around the house

My wife has turned into an online shopping ninja, I think she likes phone shopping better than store shopping. Other than that life goes on as normal.


We are looking for a place to retire, that's adding some stress. I'm happy to retire sooner to a cheaper place and she want's a place with a pool and warm weather. As long as I don't have to work and can shoot and hunt I'm pretty happy.

This ^

Not just to give your lady a break but to be with the boys doing active things. You'll wake up tomorrow and they'll be men. You will regret the time you could have had with them if you don't, that's a fact.

Yup.... i hear you. Kids want to go, but one thing lead to another and they couldn't....
I was also going to take them the weekend before, before our premiere (canadian word for governor) walked back authorizing police stops (i didn'twant to get pulledoverwith my kids in the car, the drive up is 3hrs).
Nothing about whats going on is ok with me, but i feel people waking up and the tide potentially turning.

I'm getting along better with the ex...

Not at all. We will celebrate 24 happy years in July

Life is good.

Fuqk the wu-flu

Retired early last year.

I help her with some house work, she goes to work every day.

I shoot and fish when I want.

I've had much worse times without a pandemic, this is a cake walk.

Covid BS, no. But getting my house ready for a tenant has been.

What ?

I’m still a grumpy old fart, and the redhead is a homebody, so nothing much changed on the personal level. Business has been stressful, but we’ve managed to navigate through without completely biting each other’s heads off.....

Bring kids into that equation, and keep them isolated from their peers, take away their social structure by closing schools and team sports —- and you’ve got yourself a stew of potential depression, anxiety, the whole 9 yards. Kids need way more social interaction, and if they don’t get it at school, you better find another way to give it to them.

I predict a whole bunch of these lockdown kids going off the rails right about.... now.

If it didn’t lead to more love, sex, and fun things together then something is wrong with ya

I’m not so sure that I believe that. Unless of course a persons kids are running feral. Modern day schooling with full time K-12 as the norm has only been around for a generation or two and has in many ways caused more harm than good.

Even when I was a kid in the 80’s kindergarten was a half day. Now it’s a full day and the push is young fives and pre young fives! Vs my grandparents generation that mostly left school after 8th grade to work the farm with very little free time to hangout, play organized sports, or socialize with peers all day. Honestly I think society was better for it. Before it became about school as a daycare/indoctrination center and spending all there leisure time outside of it with nothing better to do than play on soccer leagues starting at age 3 and travel sport leagues every weekend or laying around the house on social media.

Been high stress around here for over 35 years, this ain't nothing. Canada sucks, we miss traveling up there and my wife hasn't seen some of her family for over a year.

You obviously need-to give her a good rogerin' .... that'll fix everything. Be sure to pull her hair and spank her bottom in the process ... teller she's a bad girl.

She's just craving attention.

Oh, and wait until she hits menopause. Be prepared for 5+ years of hell. You think this Covid lockdown stuff was/is trying on your relationship ... you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I can honestly say my marriage has never been better. Wife stayed home to home school the kids anyway. Covid canceled a lot of the non essential bs running around we did before. We eat together as a family every night, movie night with kids once a week. The kids are closer to each other as they are home more. We have a few other family’s in same position that we get together with a few times a month.

Saving more money, house/ hunny-do list caught up. Way less stress for me.

No worries here. Wifey and I have our own business, deemed essential, and we stay out of each other's way for the most part at work. We don't wear masks at work, and damn sure don't wear them anywhere else, unless we absolutely have to. Places like the Dr. office etc. I avoid the Nazi stores like Costco that enforce the mask wearing per corporate policy, and our local Publix and Kroger stores don't enforce the mask "request". Its good to see smiling faces instead of a bunch of people wearing diapers...........

There has no change in our lifestyle, other than not being able to comfortably travel out of state to see my family! We still leave the house every week or two and go to Walmart 2 to 4 times a year! memtb

Lol...as a cop who has been married to his first wife for 35 years, I get lots of questions from the young guys.

I just tell them to be prepared to be more miserable than they can ever imagine for 20 years, then it improves from there.

It sucked that we couldn’t go dancing for almost a year, finally can again.

I’ll be married 35 years August 1, my second

11 years the first time. She is a great person, we were both easily angered, hold grudges, not good!! I had to get away from her. She has been married 40 years to a Saint, he puts up with her BS

My life, as I live it never changed with Covid one way or the other.

A few times I'd liked to have eaten out and the restaurants were closed, and a couple of times, I was asked to wear a mask in retail places.

But other than those minor things, I had absolutely no change.

Some areas are pretty eat up with it , and some peoples employers are hard asses about masks and such , sometimes it is the supervisors B.S.
the company I worked for shouted from the rooftops about distanting and mask , but like a lot of rules they weren’t enforced .
The corporate level people always gave big speeches and kudos to us for such an outstanding job of compliance on the phone safety briefings . We just grinned and went about the day .
A few stores , mostly NOVA area , required them stringently.
Been hospitalized , that really opened mine and some family’s eyes to the B.S. about the ER’s being overrun and the personnel’s attitude toward it .
I suppose it or something is fugging people up , but at least in our area it seems to be over emphasized.
Wife and I are getting along fine , but in a heavily restricted area and a couple that possibly has problems about sharing concerns and working on some relief time , I can see it might be a problem .
Good luck and work on understanding each other’s concerns and things you could do together .
Kenneth

No, I think it has been better. We got married because we love each other and this last year we have spent more time together, it has been great from that standpoint.

Hasn't really affected us much. I gotta wear a mask at work and finally management has back off on me if I'm not wearing it correctly. Gotta wear one walking Into the arena for my daughter's hockey games and practice. Otherwise we don't wear them.

The lockdowns sucked for food and stuff like that.

Sometimes it was more frustration in our house. Especially with a 10 year old.

Helps being in a small town where most everyone ignores the mask thing. Even the sheriff's don't wear them.

My wife was off work most of last year but still being paid. We got to spend more time together last year than any time since we married. It has been great.

It's hard to imagine what you guys having to wear masks are going through.

Yeah rub it in powell...lol I remember when we were free.

If it wasn't for the fact ole gretch wants to get reelected, she would have us all in chains.

Luckily our daughter still stayed in school so that made this shidt easier

Yeah.... we had another 'lockdown' province wide.... they callit an "emergency brake". They gave police authority to arbitrarily stop citizens and ask if our business in public was essential or not. Most police services said they wouldn't comply so they walked that back.... on top of s couple other minor things.

It's been a social experiment to see how much of our personal liberties they could take and what the response would be.

The next one will be worse.

I'm afraid you're right. As usual, East Texas did poorly on the social test.

Typical crazy woman, her hair isn't even wet.

I think it from one of those “Stepson, I’m caught in the sink” pornhub things

If this nonsense is causing stress in your marriage, you're doing something wrong.

Kids at home not at school. Wife working from home. Me working more hours. Hell yes its added stress! Getting thru it though. Get the kids in school 5 days a week. Go to work. Take off the stupid ass mask and move on with life

We're good. We are 60 and 57. Retired. Had some travel plans that various governmental stupidity has caused us to put on hold, although we have done a bit of traveling within the country.

No changes we still get along good.We are both non compliers of mask wearing and social distancing.Go out to eat often just like we always have.Not going to live in fear over a virus or comply with CDC or government.

Yes 💯 after being married for 10 years we had 2 kids in 10 months then this BS pandemic hit so our lives was turned upside down! We been in more fights the last year than the past ten years combined everyone is sick of the BS on edge and eventually we all vent in one way or another!