My house is so empty.

I am sorry you are going through this, that we all are. We are all doing the best we can by sending our kids away to keep them safe or our spouse spending the next few months at a motel. We all feel this pain and loneliness too. This too shall pass, one day we'll all feel a sense of normality again, even if it's the new normal. One day we'll look back at this time and know we made it through it. We can look forward to a future knowing we did our part.❤

I'm so sorry your going through this. No healthcare provider signed up to work with limted PPE.

Just know you are not going through this alone. There are a lot of empty homes out there because we don't want to be a source of infection to our loves ones. It's not easy. I hope it gets better soon. I'm praying for nothing less than a miracle. Be Safe.

My heart goes out to you. That sounds so painful. I'm very glad your husband didn't insist you be the one in the hotel though! At least you are in your own comfort zone. That seems small, but it really isn't. I hope this is over soon so you and your family can re-unite.

6 minutes ago, BeenThereGoingThere said:

My heart goes out to you. That sounds so painful. I'm very glad your husband didn't insist you be the one in the hotel though! At least you are in your own comfort zone. That seems small, but it really isn't. I hope this is over soon so you and your family can re-unite.

I tried to get him to go stay with her at his parents but he refuses to do it. He said that he doesn’t want me to get sick and be by myself. I’ve insisted and he’s pushed back and said if I have to go through this then he’s going through it with me. We’re young(er), I’m about to be 30 and he’s 35. I wasn’t really concerned about myself getting sick until I read about the 30-year-old baseball coach, Ben Luderer, who passed and was seemingly much healthier than either me or my spouse are. I pray this virus stays out of my home.

I'm so glad you have a supportive loving husband. I pray the virus doesn't even touch you.

Now you understand what it's like to be single and ugly. At least you have your own family to look forward to when all of this is over. Imagine living this loneliness for the rest of your life.

I actually give short shrift to the original post for another reason, too. Her nursing job is, before anything else, a job. It's a fiduciary relationship, not a marriage, and she has zero obligation to stay in it if she's not happy doing it. America is (still, as of this writing) a free country and nobody is compelling her to work at a job she feels constantly anxious and distraught over. No government is threatening to take away her license to practice if she doesn't take Corona patients. She can quit now and get another job after the crisis is over. Heck, she can even fill out the questionnaires her county has, meet the criteria for Coronavirus testing, and if she comes back negative, can rejoin her husband and child and go back to a relatively normal life. She says "I didn't sign up for this" and nobody is forcing her to be a martyr here. I'd tell her to resign to regain her peace and sanity.