@joedimeo
Joe DiMeo
@joedimeoย ยทย 2:25

I Haven't Seen My Parents in Two Months?

article image placeholderHow often do you see your loved ones during Covid?
And I know some friends whose moms are in their 90s and they had Colbert and nothing happened to them. So this is a very random thing as far as the mortality goes. But again, I'm concerned with the there's going to be a balance between the mental wellbeing of a person meaning contact, and there's going to be a way of mitigating other risk of having them contract COVID by, you know, obviously being in contact with them

#covid #family #wellness #copingwithcovid

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@AllanMatthes
Allan Matthes
@AllanMatthesย ยทย 2:34

A grandfather perspective

So I agree with you that it can be used as an excuse to avoid people that maybe aren't as favorable in people's eyes, and that's tough on both sides because young kids need to know their grandparents, whatever age, whatever condition, in whatever circumstances. And grandparents need to know that there's a future that they'll not see, but they'll be part of in that life or those lives of those futures. I know you have younger kids than I do
@joedimeo
Joe DiMeo
@joedimeoย ยทย 5:00
She chooses to live alone because she's still very independent and she's doing well physically and everything is the way it should be with her. But at the same time, it's extremely important for her to have contact, particularly with my brother and I. And with my brother and me. Correct grammar. And I just see other people who again just use the excuse
@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoeย ยทย 2:46
One couple. I know they will sit in their driveway when the weather was warm. They would sit in the driveway and have happy hour, and their neighbors would be across the street sitting in their driveway, haven't gone anywhere, haven't intermixed with anyone. So in those circumstances, I think when people don't visit the parents, they're being legitimate. I think they're that
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@joedimeo
Joe DiMeo
@joedimeoย ยทย 2:36
And if my mom wasn't worthy of being, of course, there were people like that. They're their parents. They're our friends. There are spouses. I'm divorced. So I can say that that we just don't want to be with. But what worries me is the I shouldn't say worries me. What I always pay attention to are these people that have to create this facade of caring when they really don't
@AllanMatthes
Allan Matthes
@AllanMatthesย ยทย 0:14

New posting announcement

Hey, Joe and his followers. I just wanted to let you know I put up my own string called The Cabaret about singing. If you want to check that out under my hashtag at Alan Mathis. Bye
@Phil
phil spade
@Philย ยทย 0:48

My Thanksgiving excuse

Joe, just being completely honest. I use this as an excuse last Thanksgiving, and it was absolutely an excuse. And for me, it was like right after the election, you know, the election was still going on. There were the fraud conversations going on. I wanted nothing to do with those conversations. And I was very quick to say covet. And it was literally an excuse. It absolutely was. And I will just come clean on that one
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@joedimeo
Joe DiMeo
@joedimeoย ยทย 2:17

@Phil

I'm very aware of my surroundings, but I think the most important politics are the ones that you manage at home, the way you assist your children and the way they think, how they feel, the way you handle the people around you that matter to you, your parents, your cousins, whoever happens to be somebody that matters to you, the way you manage your household, your finances. If everybody does that in their own household, that makes for a better country
@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoย ยทย 0:42

I donโ€™t got any excuse, itโ€™s something I need to do more of. @joedimeo

You know, Joe, I'm gonna be honest. I don't have the best relationship with my parents, and my kids have probably seen and my parents more than I have for they visit my mom probably every other weekend. And there's no excuse. I could give you a million excuses and reasons why I can talk about my intro version of my comfort in my own home. But the truth of the matter is I need to make time, especially in these trying times. That's all
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 1:48

So many ways to go here.

I think those people that suffer from a lot of isolation anyway will further isolate, but I think this is on charted territory and within families, it's really a crazy thing. I had booked a flight to see my mom for her birthday. I cancelled it. It's been over a year since I've seen my mom. She lives across the country in Baltimore, so Zoom is not her favorite thing, but I've been thinking about a lot
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@SeekingPlumb
The silver lining, though, of COVID, is that we have been able to see and hear each other more often via face time than we used to do previously. So it's sort of been the opposite other some people are experiencing, at least for me
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@joedimeo
Joe DiMeo
@joedimeoย ยทย 3:37

I should have erased and re-recorded! ๐Ÿ˜†

I hate this because it's not the greatest of topics, but ultimately it still comes down to doing the right thing if you want to do that. So I totally get that some people don't have great parents. I get that that spans any relationship quite honestly. But what I'm curious about is the people who need to pretend that they're good friends and good family members or whatever the case is, and they feel like they need to justify it by not by just saying, oh, goodness
@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoeย ยทย 2:34
But they are because throughout your life, for whatever reasons, you formed a bond, and they're the ones in a weird way that I place more value in, because again, they don't have to do it right. You're talking about people who if they knocked on your door at 02:00 a.m., you wouldn't get upset. Well, I'm talking about being the person who might knock on the door at 02:00 a.m.. Not that I would. I'm very tired at this point
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@joedimeo
Joe DiMeo
@joedimeoย ยทย 0:57
Joe Pokemon. That was beautiful, man. You have yourself a wonderful night. I'll have to. I'm laughing. I'm actually laughing out loud. I was good. All right. I'm not going to add to the conversation anymore. Whatever you said was said beautifully. There are so many different avenues to explore with this topic, but I'm glad that we started it, so it's good. All right. I think I have another post
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