A fuming wife has slammed quarantine rules for keeping her apart from her husband who works overseas.
Jackie Hodkinson, 58, from Murrayfield, has written to the First Minister pleading for exceptions to be made for families like hers.
Husband Darren, 50, is the director of a construction company in the Middle East.
The Scottish Government announced this week that all arrivals in the country on an international flight will have to quarantine in a hotel for ten days at a cost of £1,750, from next Monday.
Jackie told Edinburgh Live: "My situation is pretty dire.
"My husband works in Saudi Arabia and, as it stands just now, because of the travel ban, I can't go and see him.
"I would usually split my time between here and Riyadh where we have another home. I can usually go out there for six months at a time as an expat's wife but I can't travel out there because it's not deemed to be essential.
"I would say living with your husband is essential but someone could turn around and turn me back, that's my understanding."
"I don't have any living family in Edinburgh, other than my mother-in-law but she lives down south, and I can't see my friends like I normally would.
"I'm completely isolated.
"I can usually go out there for six months at a time as an expat's wife but can't do that at the moment."
"After Nicola Sturgeon's latest rules, which I call incarceration as far as I'm concerned, means my husband can't come home.
"He wouldn't come home at the moment because Saudi have their own borders closed but, if and when he could come home which shouldn't be too long, he now can't because Nicola Sturgeon will have him incarcerated in a hotel at your cost."
Jackie also slammed the Scottish Government after writing to the First Minister to find out whether she could fly out to be with her husband on compassionate grounds and claims the only reply she received was around information around face coverings.
She continued: "You think can you get round it by him flying into London but looking at what Nicola Sturgeon has said yesterday is potentially having checks."
While UK quarantine rules only apply to people arriving from "high risk" countries, there are no such exceptions in Scotland.
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman previously said she could not rule out border checks between England and Scotland if restrictions are not tightened by the UK Government.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, she said: “I’m not saying yes and I’m not saying no.
'What I’m saying is, those discussions need to continue to see what more we can do, if we can’t persuade the UK Government to take the tough, clinically-led approach that we are taking, then we need to work with them to identify how can we then continue to protect Scotland to the maximum level.”
Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed border checks are a possibility, with no formal agreement currently in place on closing the loophole.
Jackie and her husband "do not want to break the rules" and she says they're quite happy to isolate at home where he can also work remotely. She fears that if her husband did try to fly home via England he would still be forced to quarantine in a hotel.
"I've written to Nicola Sturgeon about this and also asking if I would be able to travel out on compassionate grounds, considering I don't have anybody. She's never replied to me and what made it worse was the only reply I've had from her was a copy and pasted reply from one of her team about face masks.
"What on earth? It utterly disgusts me. I'm not in a very good place mentally because of this and I don't know if or when I'll see my husband again."
"There must be thousands of people in my position and I can't believe she has overlooked the expatriate work situation.
While Jackie accepts that quarantine is necessary and calls for an approach more similar to that of England, she insisted: "People like my husband other expat workers, coming home on leave, should be allowed to quarantine at home."
Edinburgh Live approached the Scottish Government for comment.
