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what’s your biggest worry and why

42 replies

Thisisit777 · 02/01/2019 21:33

Me: one of our Dc has autism. I worry we have failed him as parents - despite our best efforts. He struggles and we don’t seem very effective at helping him. I worry about the effects of his autism (outbursts) on our other dc. And for his future.

You?

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Borntobeamum · 03/01/2019 09:37

I worry that the tests I'm currently undergoing may reveal I do have have cancer 😥

FlagFish · 03/01/2019 09:41

I'm not a big worrier but I do feel very concerned about the economic impact of Brexit - especially if we crash out with no deal. (Surely that won't happen???)

recently · 03/01/2019 09:44

Same as Miljah.

heartshapedknob · 03/01/2019 09:50

i worry that having kids was actually a really fucking bad idea given the decline of our planet and resulting tensions over habitable space, wars etc.

golddustwomen · 03/01/2019 09:57

As a pp said, I worry about my children being abducted. I am constantly looking around when we are out and about for dodgy characters. How bad is that!
I also worry about my dd and I ending up with the type of relationship that my dm and I have. Although I know deep down that will never happen, I have learnt from my dm's mistakes.

BifsWif · 03/01/2019 09:59

Me too heart.

fussychica · 03/01/2019 10:10

Born fingers crossed for you.Flowers

lattesforlife · 03/01/2019 10:17

So many big worries on here, it makes me feel bad for mine.

Ds dad and I are separated and he pays school fees instead of maintenance. He wants to stop paying and I will need to move house (school here are crap) and I’m worried Ds is going to lose all stability. His dad doesn’t see him very often and I worry about their relationship.

I worry I’m totally alone, and not coping very well with it really.

Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 03/01/2019 10:54

I worry about dh's health. He has a very stressful and unpleasant job which he doesn't switch off from and doesn't eat healthily or exercise. My dad died when I was a child and I worry he will die younger than he should and leave or children.

I worry about money - the bills are paid but we have debt we're trying to get rid of.

I worry about dd1 who is a single parent and has depression but lives 500 miles away and won't let me help or move closer.

HairyDogsFeet · 03/01/2019 11:35

Security (rudely) agree (grumpily) to bash on his Halls of Residence door (we are paying £6000pa for your services!!)

You did this? Or your worry is being that parent?

NoSixPlease · 03/01/2019 11:42

My worry is how my mum, my son and I are going to cope in the immediate future, as my mum has only weeks to live. We found out on New Year's day. She is in hospital and I am desperate to get her home. But I don't know if I can cope with losing my mum. We lost my dad 9 months ago. I worry that I can't be the mum my son needs while coping with all of this. I worry that I'm not going to cope and he will suffer. I am just a ball of worry.

Tortycat · 03/01/2019 15:25

Nosixplease Flowers for you, that sounds an awful shock. And for others in similar situations.

2018SoFarSoGreat · 03/01/2019 15:53

Hugs to all of you. Worry is one of those things that we don't need to compare. The big enormous ones are no less consuming than the small, sometimes ridiculous ones.

I hope for the best outcome for those of you with health worries. And those with imminent loss, 💐

wearytree · 03/01/2019 17:41

That after my miscarriage I'll never get pregnant again. And that because of this my 5 years younger DH will leave me for someone who is younger and more fertile. Plus an absolute cacophony of other worries related to ttc (for example: a dog barked at me and made me jump and that's extra cortisol now in my bloodstream that will stop me getting pregnant, have I actually ovulated this month, how much ovulation pain is good or bad etc etc etc etc).

That DH will be killed in a car crash like my DMs first husband was.

That our lovely house we've renovated will catch fire and we will lose everything.

So many worries Sad I miss being young and carefree and easy.

Crimson72 · 03/01/2019 18:15

My business going under, losing the house and being destitute. I barely have any savings due to lowish income so it wouldn't take long...

Thisisit777 · 03/01/2019 20:35

So many worries. Wish I could take them all from you! I would if I could!

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Jiminybikkit · 03/01/2019 20:55

Miljah, I honestly thought i was the only one who felt like that. I could have written that word for word. I feel that a judgement is coming on to the West. There is so much suffering in the world, and we've done nothing to alleviate it really, yet it's only an accident of birth that we are here and not there. The Yazidi mothers love and fear for their families just as we do, and look what they have had to go through.

I worry about my parents. They are relatively young and healthy, but I'm afraid I won't cope with watching them grow old and frail. I love them so much, and I'm an only child and I can't imagine a world without them.

I worry that we'll be in a car crash and everyone will die except me

I worry that anything and everything will happen to my DC, from them dying in their sleep, to slipping out of my grasp in front of a car, to developing an illness,to getting into abusive relationships as adults.

I worry that my DH will drop dead of a stroke aged 40, they run in his family at that age.

I worry about going back to work after maternity leave.

I worry about the house burning down.

Carbon monoxide

The tumble dryer exploding

The boiler sounding funny

The car sounding funny

The tree in the garden falling upon the house.

Climate change, Brexit.

Money.

It's exhausting. I can't imagine a life where you wake up and worry about nothing. I've worried every day of my life that I can remember. I used to lie awake as a small child and have a sick knot in my stomach over the possibility of nuclear war

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