Living with someone with conflicting view on social life during COVID
My primary relationship in my adult life has been with my mother, because of a mixture of discouragement from her, struggles to be social when I tried, and anxiety. I started having a midlife crisis a few years back and finally worked out a way to try to meet more people, but COVID came along. We've both locked ourselves away at home this whole time. I'm fully vaccinated (It's caused tension in the house). I see seemingly everyone else living varying degrees of a normal life. All I want is to go on a few dates when I can find someone suitable to go on one with and try to deal with as few people when I go out with them as possible. Not to concerts or fairs, not even inside a restaurant, just something outside and with that person. Whenever it seems appropriate, I'd want to be alone at length with said person.
Problem is my mother won't even let family come over to help with things or visit them because she's scared of COVID and won't get vaccinated. She's gone from saying she's upset about staying home all the time to talking about people she's known who lived like that.
We've talked about my desires enough that she knows I'm looking and I told her I wanted to go on dates and my plans, but from the way she talks, I can't tell if she's accepted the full implications of that, and I don't want to push it until I absolutely have to.
I feel wrong potentially bringing home this dread disease, but I'm so lonely and unused to social things and depressed and anxious. I've had to fight to overcome being suicidal because of my loneliness, worries, and hopelessness. Nothing seems fair or right.
I can't get a clear idea in my head of what everyone else is doing and what is the right thing to do. I feel like, logically, it's all about reducing our chances of getting it with what we have to do and how we feel comfortable, but what do you do when you live with someone who feels differently than you do?
Hi @YellowComfort
I really feel for you, such a tricky situation.
You Mother seems to saying she's afraid of Covid (as well all are) yet she refuses to have her jabs, that doesn't make sense to me.
I am concerned that you are feeling trapped in a situation you can't get out of but maybe, just maybe that is why your Mother doesn't have the jabs, to prevent you finding a life for yourself. I hope you feel strong enough at some point to do what's right for you, you deserve it. Hopefully she will realise this ❤️
Take good care of yourself
Lucy2
@lucy2 Thank you, Lucy. ❤️
@YellowComfort
You're very welcome <3
Lucy2