For nearly two years we have chosen to eat through savings and live in poverty on one work from home pay cut salary in order to care for our now 2 y.o. child and not bring home COVID. I have been looking for work after little one is asleep for the night bc we are really feeling the crunch and today they looked up beaming and said ‘Mommy and Daddy are always here’.
It was sweet but it really fucked with me. Like what more important job is there to do than to be with your child especially during their first years.
Fuck this. Also I’m gonna have to eventually break their heart and probably expose them to covid in order to not be homeless