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I Started the Pandemic Married, with a 2yo, and Living in California
Now I’m a divorced, single mom of two living in Oregon.
Double mom of one to a single mom of two.
The pandemic has been a whirlwind and I know it’s not truly over yet because I finally got Covid for the first time a few weeks ago. Now I see what all this fuss has been about.
It’s felt almost like I went into a cocoon and emerged a different person.
I suspect the pandemic changed the time frame of a lot of things that happened in my life, but I think all of those things would’ve still happened at some point without the pandemic.
We may have had a second child earlier than we did. We didn’t know at first if Covid would have any effect on pregnancy.
We probably would’ve gotten divorced eventually, but the pandemic essentially trapping us together made our issues more obvious.
The pandemic led to the pregnancy and divorce happening at the same time. I don’t generally wear formal clothes but I had to buy some maternity formal clothes in case we ended up going to court.
We were living in the Bay Area for my now ex wife’s job, but with the pandemic her job went remote which allowed us to move back home to Oregon without the need to find a new job.
