i need my space
In quarantine in a small studio apartment with my boyfriend who chooses to have no social life (is a proud introvert with no interest in people other than me and his family), is unemployed (and doesn't try hard enough to find a job and is used to things being given to him, his parents doing things for him etc) and was an indoor type person before the pandemic and is like a pig in sh*t at the moment loving the isolation. He was never an outdoors type and doesn’t see the need to go out for fresh air. Everything is ordered online and delivered. I hear him talking to his family on the phone (because we’re essentially in one room together all day long unless one of us uses the bathroom), him and his family talk about the news all the time and don’t talk about anything else, to the point where it is an obsession and they are all neurotic and anxious anyway even before all of this, so this has just made it even worse. It really is like listening to a broken record. I always put my earphones in to block it out and give him privacy but he talks so loudly. There’s no privacy. When I was going out to work at least I had a break but now it’s his monotone voice surround sound everyday and this irritating laugh he has. When I video call or voice call friends or family, he will later comment on things I had been talking about in my private conversations. It’s just too much! I need my space. At first we were doing ok but he’s been inside for 30 days straight and I feel I’m becoming stir crazy but he’s loving it. We don’t have a balcony or access to outdoor space. Slowly losing the plot...being in one room with the same anxious illogical person is challenging enough without the pandemic but with it, I’m climbing the walls!