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I'm so ungrateful for what I've got and I hate it

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atbobbyshouse · 18/03/2019 10:51

I've just turned thirty. I've got a healthy three year old DS. I've got a husband who I love and who loves me. We own our property. We earn a good wage between us. I have an extremely flexible job where I work from home.

I don't feel happy. I don't feel fulfilled. I started out in an admin job when I left uni and I'm now working as an operations manager so basically just a higher level admin job. I enjoy some parts of it, it pays the bills and allows me to be around for DS but it's not very interesting and it's certainly not what I thought I would end up doing - I feel a bit like I got stuck down a certain path.

I have really dreadful anxiety that I feel has held me back, it stopped me travelling when I was younger and still stops me now (utterly terrified of flying, yes I know it's irrational, yes I've done that BA fear of flying course). It also means that I feel very strongly that if I talk about how I feel, then something bad will happen to teach me a lesson because I should be grateful for what I have.

I know how much worse so many other people have it and I just feel like a fucking fraud, feeling dissatisfied with my life when I have so much.

Has anyone else felt like this and how were you able to overcome it?

OP posts:
Needallthesleep · 18/03/2019 22:39

I’m another one who could have written your OP. It sounds like it’s more common than I thought!

Probably echoing others, but I have two hobbies that I absolutely love, so am lucky to have found two passions. Having a baby does make it a bit more difficult to do them on a regular basis, but they bring me a lot of joy.

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