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Is it normal to want the things you don't have1

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Rose220 · 28/05/2019 19:43

Recently I have been feeling low. I have the most amazing husband and three children. Who are soo well behaved and adorable. And I'm a full time mum which I really love and believe is the best job in the world. But I have no job career and sometimes wish I had. I miss my children small and wish them as baby's just for one more day. I brought a house which I love but I'm not sure it's my forever home. And wish sometime we brought another house.i wish I had gone on more holidays while my kids were younger and wish I had traveled more. I look back at old photos and want those days back and miss the photos I do not have. Exspecially as I feel absent from my children's life's as I am lucking to be in one or two a month. Now my kids are in school I feel lonely when they are in school. Today we went out as a family we really enjoyed best day we have had in a while. I've laughed alday but it wasn't till I got home I realised we only took 4 photos and none of me and my husband but at the time we all talked played and really enjoyed. I feel so sad as sometimes I think about the things I would like but can't have or is in the pasted. Exspecially the first 5 years of my children's lives I wish I was in more photos not just 1 a month from the day they were born. And I sat and cuddled them for longer x

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looselegs · 28/05/2019 20:22

Its perfectly normal- we're only human but we don't want to seem ungrateful for what we have.
You can't change the past- I, too, sometimes wish I could go back to when my kids were tiny,and cuddle them more, played with them more, read to them more....they're 16 and 21 now and mive away from me more every day. All you can do if you think you need to, is make changes to what you think needs changing now. Kids don't worry about photos, or how many you've taken- they just need to know that you're there and they're happy, whether you're having a family day out or just doing the dishes!

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