Do you ever feel like you are just existing and not living?

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Today after dropping my oldest daughter off to school i just felt like "Dammit this is not living" Everyday is a hussle and bussle to get the girls to school, work all day and to have a hectic evening after picking the kids up, cooking. Doing homework, cleaning and pumping and then doing my homework. Have no extra funds to do anything outside of paying bills. This is not living. On the weekends all I want to do is sleep because I'm so tired from the full week but when you have smaller children you cant rest. Next thing you know it's Sunday and you have to prepare for the next Busy week. Sighs I want to enjoy life and my children. Anybody feel like this sometimes? Man... This thing called LIFE

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I left the career I worked so hard for because my autistic son was having some sort of crisis every day. I made some HUGE sacrifices for my family. That was over a year ago. Now he's finally getting better (knock on wood), which is wonderful.

Still, I have a big hole where my personal passion & ambition used to live. I love my family and my role as wife & mom are fulfilling, but I know I'm not living a completely fulfilling life. I'm just on auto pilot. I wish I was one of those people where being a sahm was enough, but I'm just not. My work provided the creative outlet, the mental challenge, the socialization and overall adventures I needed in my life. Now it's gone & I'm feeling utterly lost.

So, yeah, I'm simply existing right now. What I do for my family is important and I wouldn't change my choices I'd I could do it all over again. It's just that I relate all too well.

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I pulled into work the other day and started crying cuz i feel the same way. While my toddler thrives on routine, i just wish we could do something different. I need a vacation from "life" lol

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Yes me!

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Yes! I don't know how to fix it but yes

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Yes very much. I get so envious and resentful when my husband finds time to relax or do hobbies because I feel like I get zero down time to myself. Maybe when the kids are older it will get better.

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Sometimes. Sometimes I imagine what I could be doing if my life had been different. But in the same breath...I wouldn't change it at all. My family is my life. And I love it 😍

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Only all the time. Everyday it feels like im not actually Living, Im just Not Dying. 😩 We live in a shitty small town, doing the same shit every single day, i clean, i cook, I pick up the kids, I have no life outside of that, I have zip zero no friends in this area, noone to talk to, my husband is all I have, I have no external family nearby, we never have any fun because of my husbands work hours and we're so far away from anything remotely fun in this small shitty town. It literally feels like im just not dying everyday, because this sure as hell aint living. We're moving in 5 months to a city, our home town, we miss it, life will get better there. But till then we just gotta stick it out here and hope to hell this depression doesnt worsen 😩

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I'm sure my mom felt that way when I was younger. Now I'll be doing the same thing thing. My daughter will be here in may

Do you ever feel like you are just existing and not living?

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