Is there anything you feel smug about?

[Sway19]

Hi all,

Is there anything you feel smug about? Perhaps something you wouldn’t admit to in real life?

Gloat away

I've got the job of my dreams, in a company I love, who respect my work and opinions. It's taken 17 years in my field to be able to say that, so I'm actually probably more grateful than smug.

Congratulations @whatsoccuringnow it sounds as though you’ve worked hard for the opportunity

I've got an absolutely brilliant husband who does more than his fair share of everything. We have an absolutely brilliant relationship and I chose the best life partner ever

I don't know. I try really hard not to be smug, because I believe that most everything is more luck than judgement. Probably my cat. I'm smug that I went to a rescue and asked which cat they liked best, rather than picking the prettiest. She's the best cat in England- wonderful personality.

I feel smug that I'm content . I have a family member who literally has it all , but shes never satisfied, always wants the next best thing , keeping up with the Jones's etc etc
Really dissatisfied with life , very pushy with her kids never happy
Me and Ds have got our health and I'm happy with that! Got made redundant, currently doing a rubbish job for rubbish money but I'm like meh no ones dead, we're ok and happy !

I paid off the mortgage on my dream house age 36. This year has made me incredibly grateful for not having that expense to worry about. It was done off our own backs without financial help from family which does make me feel quite proud. I don’t feel smug though, just very lucky.

My children are very good about school - do homework with no intervention, pack their bags and make their lunch. Always have. Am so glad of this every morning.

Can't get them to shut doors or open curtains however

I agree I am less smug more grateful - I have a lot of little things to be grateful for.

I’m fitter at 46 than I’ve ever been in my life.

My baby is super easy. Sleeps well, eats well, constantly happy, cuddly but not too clingy, hits milestones exactly when he's 'meant to' or just before etc etc. Thank goodness we can't socialise with anyone because they'd all hate me!

It's gonna bite me in the arse the second he turns 2 though I know it

I try not to feel smug because it always comes and bites me on the arse.

These days Im more grateful than anything. I've now got a wonderful dp, which I've never had, my life is stable at the moment, I managed to find another job after being made redundant this year and due to luck I was able to finish my xmas shopping early.

But that's just down to luck and I'm grateful I was in a position to do this..so many arent and it could have been me.

Theres one thing i am smug about and that's an inlaw situation..a kind of how the mighty has fallen and the underdog rises.

Feel smug about marrying lovely husband. Knew him for 2 weeks, feel head over heels and agreed to get married - everyone said we were being reckless - maybe so, but 20 years on we are still happy while others, who were more cautious and quite judgemental about us have since got divorced.

I'm not smug, I'm grateful to have a job that I love, to live where I do, to have the family I've been blessed with.

I always think smug people are self-congratulatory and think they are superior to others, when mostly it's down to hard work and good luck.

My baby is awesome. Gorgeous, funny, sleeps pretty well, breast feeds without any issues. And I went back to pre pregnancy size 8 clothes 2 weeks after his birth .

I've always privately thought that a certain acquaintance of mine was a tiresome self-important dimwitted twat of the first water.

So I was pleased to see him prove it to all and sundry and beyond any reasonable doubt on facebook a couple of days ago.

Exh spent years brainwashing the dc I was evil.
So they did indeed go nc...
With him.

That I don't have or want children
From everything I read on here and see in real life it seems fucking awful. (joking in that I don't feel smug just greatful!) But in general I do actually try not to be smug just greatful. It's not a pleasant emotion.

@Santaisironingwrappingpaper

Exh spent years brainwashing the dc I was evil. So they did indeed go nc... With him.

But actually this is definitely the sort thing you should be smug about! Fuck him!

Again not smug, privileged and grateful, I won six European sports titles, six open titles back to back. But I will always have huge regret that the best World's was as 2nd.

Not a big paying sport so still trying to catch up financially and career wise twenty years later.

That Ive built up quite a stash in my premium bonds 🙋‍♀️

I have a really nice house, my DH & DC are lovely, really easy going and don't cause any issues. We have the best dog in the world and I get paid a lot for a very flexible WFH job with lovely colleagues.

I do however wonder more often than most what is going to up wrong because it seems a bit too good to be true...

Not smug but grateful. DP had a serious emergency health scare two years ago where the prognosis was very uncertain. He recovered fully and two years on we married after 13 years together. A Covid wedding though so our spring event became a Halloween one just days before the second lockdown.

I have a DS and a DD

There's a interesting number of people who post on this parenting site about how 'happy' they are not to be parents.

God, so many things! I'd never admit it is real life though.

I had the piss thoroughly taken out of my by my friendship group for training as a nurse in my mid twenties (apparently nursing is for thick people). I'm now 40 with a career i love and out earning the lot of them.

My family was skeptical of me supporting dp financially for several years while he set up a business. He now earns well and we are pleasantly comfortable, it has turned out well.

I had babies at a similar time to sil and in the minds of all dp's family she did everything right and I did everything wrong. Nearly a decade on my dc are a delight and hers are really hard work.