What bits of adulthood do you find shit?

[Iwonder777]

Mine is shopping - specially food shopping.

My parents growing old and ill. I find that very sad.

As a single parent - men who think they're doing you a favour by giving you any attention at all. Yuck.

If I like you it's because I actually like YOU. You don't need to feel all insecure and think I'm choosing you because I'm desperate. And if you don't like me, fine, I'm not desperate for you to like me. Just be upfront. If you like me and I like don't like you, well suck it the fuck up.

As you can tell I'm over dating. It's ridiculously over complicated.

Bills. The monotony of having to be constantly on it because no one else will eg. Kids, have they got the right nutrician, are they getting out enough. Am I a good mam? The rolling too do list that is in your head. Really look back on my school days as the best years of my life

Domestic shit. But I like having a tidy house (though it only last for a few minutes) and eating nice food. I would love to have servants. Apart from the inequality bit.

Motherhood, work, goals. Those are the easy things about adulthood. It's other people, particularly men, who bring the difficulty. Did I mention I'm over dating?

Choosing what to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner, trying to accommodate everyone's likes/dislikes, within budget, healthy/ish.
A huge chore every week. It doesn't get any easier.
You find something everyone likes, then someone doesn't like it anymore

Working. Such a waste of life.

Having to plan nutritious and balanced meals EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's the most tedious part of the day. If I was very wealthy, I would employ a housekeeper and cook to do this for me.

Right now? All the fucking bereavement.

Being in charge of all the decisions to be made

Putting kids to bed. Every night. it’s relentless

Cooking.

God, the tedium.

The thoughts of having to cook for the rest of my life fills me with doom.

Wonder how different or similar the lists would be by male and female.

And if you compared the lists of couples

Not being able to stop worrying. Even if rationally know things are beyond my control.

When something goes wrong, or if a situation requires a responsible adult and it dawns on me that I am an adult so I have to deal with the situation myself. Although I usually phone my friends mum and she sorts us out.

Paying bills.

Having to be in charge, I much prefer having someone tell me what needs doing, otherwise I just do things I want to do rather than things that need doing.

Deciding what we're all going to eat, making sure it's healthy, affordable and something everyone will like then having to shop for and cook it. I'd be happy to live on on salad for the rest of my days.

Taking out the bloody bins. Even though DH mostly does it 😆

Cleaning the bath,

Bloody fecking tax returns.

The decision making.

The finances and the ongoing knowledge that you must be good at your job, otherwise you will get sacked, and then you will have no house, and end up destitute on the street, so you have to keep going.

The wanting things and not being able to have them, but sometimes slipping and buying the thing, that you can't really afford and then having the consequences of trying to pay for it. Rubbish!

Endless food prep.

Cleaning the dishwasher filter

Weeding

It's post. So exciting as a child! Now I hear the thwunk of the post slot and I'm like "Christ, what now".

Just being an adult! Specifically a parent. "I've done a messy pooo", FUCK OFF, I've just say down for The first time. The endless food making, I'm not a 3 meals a day eater so it drives me nuts having to make 4 lunches over the holidays.

People- in terms of love, hate, life and death. We've lost a 29 year old mother of two this week and that fear is... I just can't or I won't sleep.

I, like you @Iwonder777 hate food shopping. Dh does it. I just walk into/view website saying I don't want that, or that, or that... I buy duck all but a multipack of double deckers for me...

The constant repetitiveness of it. I reach the bottom of the laundry basket, feel like I am a superhero then realise that I’m wearing clothes which will need washing at the end of the day. Same for all housework tasks.

When I was a kid, I thought being a grown up was going to be staying up late and unlimited ice cream. To say it’s been a disappointment is an understatement!

Having to stay sober most of the time, and people thinking I'm somehow interested in their children/want to hold their babies just because I'm an adult. Oh, and not getting away scot-free with public meltdowns and tantrums is a bit of a downer.

Paying council tax, every month I hate it and wish I could spend it on fun stuff.