What would your perfect life be like?

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First of all I would have a magic wizard to reassure me that I will remain in perfect health until I'm at least 80 regardless of how much I want to smoke, drink and eat absolute shit. Same with my parents and all the people I love and care about. The wizard will also confirm Heaven is as real as I believe so even when we die it's no big deal because we'll all be together including pets and it will be even better up there!

I will have enough money in the bank to work part time, something rewarding and in a happy environment such as an animal charity or helping to maintain nature. My house (next to lovely neighbours in a lovely area) is detached with a big kitchen and all my friends come over around once per month for a big catch up. In the Spring and Summer I'll spend most weekends on my narrowboat moored at the bottom of the garden, chugging along the lovely canal saying hello to all the other boaters, listening to happy music and drinking lots of prosecco.

I will have an amazing partner who I love and who loves me, we live apart but look forward to spending every second weekend together. He is as independent and stable as I am and I know he will bring me nothing but safety, contentment and stability.

I spend the rest of my time by myself cooking, reading, walking, cycling and generally being happy knowing I'm surrounded by people who love and appreciate me.

Finally I obviously have two perfect cats who are beautiful, hilarious and never shed a single hair anywhere! One is called Monty and one is called Moseley.

... meanwhile back to the office job tomorrow, there's 30 years left on the mortgage and I'm single and alone as fuck 😃

Your life sounds great op.
I wouldn't mind the same , but minus the cats as I have allergies to their fur :(
I wouldn't mind a chef to cook me nice healthy meals at least once a week!

We kind of do have the life that you describe although the cats have different names and do moult (but I don’t mind), the narrow boat and we work full time.

I don’t think my perfect life would be too different to how it is now although I would want a bit more money, to be able to stress a bit less and to weigh slightly less! All superficial but doable.

I'd live near the sea in a lovely Jill Mansellesque village with a real community around me with my dh and dc. My sister would be one of my best friends. There would always be things happening in the village . I would be an author and have enough money to be comfortable. Oh and crisps would have 0 calories.

I would have a house with a garden that had a gate straight onto the beach. No weapons of mass destruction and all nations living together in peace. Yes, i am a dreamer. I live in optimist hope.

Exactly the same as it is now, except I’d weigh less and Putin would be dragged, screaming out of a hole in the ground, and thrown to the crowd in Ukraine.

I would have all the time in the world to spend with my baby boy and there’d be no stresses.

The house would magically clean itself. Healthy but delicious meals would just appear when hungry. Every day would be sunny. I’d be off work until my son went to school and then I’d be doing something that brought me joy and satisfaction, probably something with animals like yourself OP.

Oh and my cats would only ever shit in their litter tray 😑

DH would be here, I wouldn't be sending him WhatsApp messages that arrive but are never read and I wouldn't be missing him more than I ever thought possible.

Hugs to you @bloodywhitecat ❤

I am really really happy with my life as it is. As you get older I think you appreciate what you have more. When I was you get I was always wishing for this or that but now I just don't. I just wish I was a bit fitter but that is down to me not doing enough exercise.

@bloodywhitecat, that is the flip side of loving someone so very much. When they die you are left heartbroken.

@bloodywhitecat 💐

I'd be on a Greek island or a remote part of Southern France. My cats would have agreed to come with me and be adapting happily to a life in the sun. I'd live in a tiny stone cottage, read books, drink local wine and buy gorgeous vegetables from the local market. A total difference from my life now, but the hope I've had for 20 years and keep my fingers crossed I may achieve yet.

We'd live in one of the huge,stunning houses in the next road that overlooks the sea, we'd have a housekeeper/full time cleaners so I wouldn't have to do any housework again.
We'd have enough money that DH could retire early and we could spend our days together.
We'd all have perfect health and I would be slim and attractive.
My children are already pretty incredible so there's nothing I would change there except maybe my almost 3yo would sleep through the night 😂

Assuming all the health/family/world peace stuff is sorted, I would like:

First, a nice but not over-fancy or overly big house in the town where we live now, with a decent-sized garden and super close to a really good secondary school for DD.

(Might actually buy DP a separate flat nearby and be on my own with DD for a while! Hmm! Tempting!)

A meal planning box each week with healthy pre-planned stuff so that I don’t have to think too much about cooking.

A medium sized electric car. Two cats (our house atm is too teeny for cats and too close to a main road, sadly).

A nice 2-bed flat in London somewhere interesting but not too central, say Islington or Barnsbury, to stay in for weekends/summer to go to museums, theatre, etc.

To be significantly thinner than I am now, but to be able to afford a membership at a nice gym where I could go and swim often.

Someone to come to my home three times a week to give me a deep tissue massage! Maybe this would be my (and my back’s) dearest wish, actually….

To be able to have enough money, as well as all of this, to cut my hours at my job to about a third of their current level but allow me to have lots of leisure time as well. Ooh and enough money to travel for holidays and take DD. I miss travelling.

Honestly that would be my dream life. Comfortable and well off but nothing massively overdone - I don’t want to live like the Beckhams or anything!

I reckon about £5m would see me right. <checks lottery ticket> 🤣

Italy. Permanent summer. Long evenings ona terrace looking down into a valley. Big veranda doors open with the sound of family preparing food whilst I lay the table. Great quality food that I can eat as much as I want of (you did say magic wand). Couple of dogs pottering around in the shade, perhaps a cat too. DH pottering away in his garage/shed and we spend days visiting local towns, swimming in the pool and working on projects around the grounds. I will tend to my vegetable plot. We wouldn't work, apart from on our own projects. Perfectly happy keeping ourselves busy.
As it is we live in a project house in a lovely village in England and it is lovely. But it isn't the hillside house in rural Italy...

A large amount of cash in the bank, the ability to travel across the globe in my own personal craft, time travel if possible, then been improved with genetic engineering overhauling my genetics and to improve them

We would both love our jobs but be earning enough to work only a couple of days a week. My family and I would all be healthy.
We would have a dog and live semi-rural in a bigger house with a bit of land for some ponies and chickens. We would have a cleaner/housekeeper who would do all the boring adulting like finding the best deals for insurance, paying bills, sorting the laundry, and remembering that we need dishwasher tablets etc!
We would have a holiday home in Cornwall, near friends which would visit pretty regularly. We would take at least one other holiday every year exploring the world with our kids.
The world would be a safe place for everyone.
I would help at a local charity dear to my heart more.
Our childrens' hobbies would never clash and we would be able to get to them without having to juggle everything.
My mum would still be alive and she would have the most amazing relationship with her grandchildren.
I realise this is quite unachievable so would settle for DH not being allergic to dogs and him arriving home with one just for me!

Generally happy with the way things are, but I'd have holiday homes dotted around the world (that wouldn't need any maintenance) and we would jet off when we felt like it. DS' disabilities would disappear and he wouldn't need 24/7 care and I could get a part time job, probably as a support worker (but there would be no paper work involved). I'd have parents, who although elderly are fit and well and we would all have a Sunday lunch cooked by my DM. My dc would all get their dream jobs and have lovely children who I'd look after. I would be very fit and healthy until I die a sudden death in my 90s, requiring no care or not being a burden on anyone.

I am an author, and we live in a beautifully decorated house with a cleaner, gardener and handyman. The house is in a beautiful city with great public transport so I don't need to drive everywhere.

I have lots of energy because I'm so slim and fit, and have time for lots of hobbies such as language learning. We have several foreign holidays every year and I take the summer off work so I have lots of time for the family but also to visit friends in far flung places.

DH has taken early retirement from social work and is relaxed and now does the cooking.

My dd10 does not have ASD and she is calm and independent and has friends.

I have 2 cats who love being cuddled and come and sit near me when I'm working.

We don't have any money worries and can afford to treat family and friends if we feel like it.

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I'd be living in Zone 1 London enjoying everything the City has to offer. I'd be a travel blogger, visiting new countries and cities often. Enough money to do what I want when I want - I'm not materialistic and I don't want "stuff" like cars and houses (I'd be happy living in a flat) but I like experiences - holidays, eating out, cocktails with friends.

DS would always be happy and do well at school with a good social life, and he'd achieve all his dreams and goals.

I don't want a relationship but a nice FWB would do.

Painfree. That would be something...

I would have my current life, but with a slightly bigger + prettier house & garden and a bit more disposable income (I just want to go on foreign hols without having to budget carefully for 12 months, basically). I'd also like to have a house deposit for each of the DC sitting in a bank account somewhere. That's it really!

It's interesting that even in your perfect life you would not want to see your dream partner for more than once every fortnight (have I got that right?)

This indicates that possibly you are content with being single, which is good OP

My perfect life would be what I have now, but without work, and still with a salary though, and also a cleaner once a week. And a planet with no war, hunger, disease, violence or ecological meltdown please, politicians who are good people and no super-rich and no poor

Well... maybe every other full weekend and a weeknight in between. He'd better not get under my feet if I have work in the morning though 😉

Reading books
Drinking tea
Cuddling kitties

Basically what I do now already