Do you feel content in your life?

[Hope54321]

Or do you feel like you wish for your life to be different?

Yes I am.
There are always things that could be a 'bit better', a little more money, I'd love a utility room ! I could do with losing a couple of stone,
But I have a home that meets my needs, secure employment, a happy healthy teenager who is doing well, family came through Covid intact, great friends, an allotment where I spend a lot of time, holidays to look forward to.
I'm far from being a MN high earner but there is nothing that I don't have that I really need or want.

I am content.
I like my job, I have a gorgeous son (who is crazy & I miss the peace of pre-kids life but wouldn't be without him), I love my husband - he is also the best daddy ever. I still have my parents who are amazing to us all (with their time, money and energy). I really don't need anything else (as pp said, a bit more money would be nice though! Haha).

I feel very content, but it took over 40 years to get here. Had I had direction at the beginning of my life, I would have got here sooner.

I am exactly where I want to be doing exactly what I want to do.

I got direction very recently but with focus you can turn your life around very quickly.

Step one is knowing what will make you content.
Step two is making a plan to get there.
Step three is implementing that plan.

I think so. Our household has financial security so the cost of living stuff us frustrating and not a source of terrible anxiety and I know we are very fortunate in that way. I have a good work life balance and kids are great. Husband is not perfect, but who is? I love him and he loves me and I've never regretted marrying him or wondered what it would be like to be with anyone else.

Very, need DS (21) to get another job and his theory and driving test and after that I am for the time being worry free. We are mortgage free, we are entering in to retirement on a like for like basis and savings to back us up, all we need is DS finally on his way and settled.

I have had a dreadful time health wise over the last decade, but now we are content and ready to enjoy life.

Sorry if that sounds smug, but six years ago, it was touch and go whether I would be here to type this, so I am grateful, delighted and content.

On the whole, yes. I'm a very fortunate person.

I’m not unfortunately. I wish I was.

Nope!

Yes I do. I have a lovely DH, three amazing teenage DC, nice friends and a job I enjoy. It's all good!

Absolutely not.

It’s been one catastrophe after another since I was a small child. Some self inflicted, but most things beyond my control.

If I listed everything that was going on right now, I’d be accused of being a troll.

The will to carry on gets weaker by the year.

Yes, I am content and consider myself extremely fortunate. But also, I am starting to become overwhelmed.

I am. Probably because I no longer work ! Well, a part time job that I really enjoy ( 8 hours a week )
I'm mortgage free, happily married, ds settled and I have a beautiful granddaughter. I'm fit and healthy ( could lose a stone, but I'm working on it ).

Yes I’m content - I try to always be. There are people better/worse off than me & as long as my DD & I are healthy & happy with a roof over our head & a bit of money to go on a few day trips etc then I can sides myself very lucky.

i’m very grateful to be able to get up & go out each day, look after the house/my DD/the dog etc, however mundane life gets there’s plenty of ill/homeless people that have it a whole lot worse.

I’m very content at the moment.

How are you OP?

Overall, yes. I love DH and he loves me. We also have a lot in common even after nearly 30 years together so we do lots of interesting things together and have things to discuss.

I enjoy my work but only work PT so it's not stressful very often unless I'm up against a deadline.

I have hobbies I enjoy and friends I love and trust.

After some very tough 'sandwich generation' years of dealing with DC, one of whom had complex SEN and physical issues, along with a mother with dementia and a very ill dad, DC have now left home, DF has sadly died and DM is in a really loving care home, so I can finally relax a bit after years of tension.

Also, I think you arrive at an age, maybe some time in your fifties (hopefully earlier but it was this late for me) when you just finally totally accept yourself, including faults that cannot be changed. You can exhaust yourself when young trying to be what you can never be. As you get older, the pleasure of recognising who you are and what you are and are not capable of is deeply liberating.

I wouldn’t say I was ‘content’, because that sounds too settled and calm, and we’ve had lots of upheavals the last two years and I’m currently very anxious awaiting some big success/failure news, but life was pretty good. Then I fell in love with someone other than my lovely husband and all hell broke loose in my head. I haven’t acted on it, have no intention of ever acting on it, the man in question has no idea, and I’m channeling everything into extra attentiveness to my DH, but I’ve dropped two dress sizes this spring and feel nuts.

So no, contented I’m not…

I can’t say I’m content, not miserable either. I wish I could go back in time and change a particular decision I made.

Yes I am. I am happy.

I mean I am anxious, my bank account doesn’t have as many zeros as I want, my home isn’t perfect, I need to lose weight, I don’t see my family as much as I would want etc etc etc.

but I have carved out a life that I love, made time for what I can and learned to be kinder to myself about the other stuff.

Yes, very. I’m extremely lucky but also aware that things can change in a heartbeat so don’t take it for granted. But for now, everything is perfect.

Yes I am happy. Shit has happened and I'm always worrying about something but generally life is good

Nope, not at all- actually this feeling has increased significantly lately. There's not much of my life I'm happy or fulfilled by but equally I'm also aware there's almost nothing I can do to improve it. So more than kind of stuck which is a miserable but for now very real place to be.

Yes. I have a lovey DH and 2 healthy, happy kids. We live in a nice green area in a house that I love. I enjoy my job although I would like to earn more. There's always something that could be better but I feel pretty lucky

Yes. Delighted to have been, and to continue to be for as long as I will be, a human alive on this beautiful planet.

Yes. I feel a bit like this sometimes too.
Looking very early at a few things for dc1 for university and god i wish I had worked harder and done more when I was younger

As per above posters, have health and a small bit of financial security for now, and happy kids and lovely husband

Def need to lose a couple of stone

2 weeks ago i would of said yes but my worlds upside down so no, deffinently not content