Dear Hannah:

If you significantly contribute financially to your parents’ home, being the only one working, let your parents, particularly your father, know that you need not be disturbed during your at-home working hours. If your father cannot respect you as a human, and as his daughter, maybe he will respect you as one who brings in money.

During a quarantine, it is crucial that all individuals sharing a household arrange for individual alone times, occupying private areas within the home, respecting each other’s privacy, determining “do not disturb” times during the day (having a sign stating that outside your room, is a good idea. It is a good idea for all participants to have a meeting and come up with rules of interactions during this quarantine.

Regarding no one reaching out to you to ask how you are doing during this pandemic, I don’t reach out to people either, to people who don’t need me, that is. I can’t explain it at the moment, but I am significantly less likely to call people I have met in person now than I did before the pandemic.

But as you can see, I am okay communicating here with people I have never met. Do post anytime.

anita