Remote working: the distance is longer if you're childless
Yet another lockdown. You are alone. You've been home for days. You go out to take a breath of fresh air and buy some food. But more than anything else, you go out to see people not on your PC screen, and to talk to someone, if you're lucky. You're working hard to keep away the destructive and painful thoughts about your fate that brought you here, in the silent world of childless people. - While your colleagues in Zoom complain about their kids they can't properly handle. - While your colleagues’ children are there playing in the background of the PC screen during online meetings. - While the children of all the neighbours are on home schooling, and you can hear them screaming and laughing, - You are always there: you're one in five women without children. Isolation makes you live over your story of loneliness and grief. As often happens, it is a really painful story that you live with every day and that you cannot share with anyone, or can just share with
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