Glad to hear from you, @MarcusAurelius That's cool that you are studying German. Most of my in-laws from my husband speak German. His oldest sister and his brother, and their families, have lived in Munich area since the late 1960s, and his younger sister is a German-Czech translator. Growing up, German was the most common foreign language for them to learn, save Russian, which was forced on them. That's because Czech Republic was once part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, and because two of the bordering countries are German-speaking. Many people in Czech history were even predominantly German speaking, like Franz Kafka, Gustav Mahler, and Antonín Dvořák.

Are you able to get out of your apartment/house at all? I know that with the pandemic getting out is not as nice as it used to be, but it's still better to get out a little than not at all.

I can understand how us living with another with a mood disorder can be rough. My husband is in a mild depressive phase now. Growing up, my dad often had some mood issue or another.

Hugs