I’ve had enough of parenting:-(

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Nothing dramatic going on but I just feel I’ve had enough. My kids are early to mid teens so a lot more independent now but I feel I’ve just completely run out of steam and lost all motivation and enthusiasm for the parenting job/ role. Sick of the repetitive year in and out drudgery. No energy for the level of juggling required to keep a professional job going as well.
I just want to go off and be me, for the foreseeable:-(……realistically theres another 6 years of this before I will be able to to ….

Fully sympathise. I feel this in waves, especially when the drudgery/ noise/ mess/ obligations are at a peak. Being a mother is a relentless slog at times.

hope you get a rest/ break soon.

No advice, just... me too!

3 under 5 and one of them in particularly is going to be the death of me.

Why did we do this to ourselves???

As a single mother of two (10 and 2, oldest has left home) I feel like this ALL THE TIME. I regularly have tantrums in the evening looking at all the housework and homework, life admin etc. I totally sympathise and wish for a knight in shining armour to come and help me but hey ho no one ever comes.

I'm sorry you are feeling this way. I don't have any words of comfort except for what older mums say to me "It will get better" (apparently) scoffs

Absolutely agree. Mine are 14 & 11, younger has asd so extra support required. I keep thinking that surely we should be wrapping this up and bringing it to some sort of satisfactory conclusion by now.
i feel like I’ve just run out of steam with the whole parenting thing (feel the same about work tbh).
im putting it down to peri menopause, at least in part.

I'm in my thirties and still rely on my mum to sort a lot of things for me, and call her every day. She's like a PA sometimes.

Maybe go have a holiday by yourself or with a friend/husband.

Totally empathise..I am completely and utterly burnt out with work, parenting and now got an elderly parent with dementia and Parkinson's in the mix. I'm a single parent and completely exhausted. I've had to take a side hustle on as well as my full time professional job to meet the rising costs of everything. I dream of a lottery win or meeting a ninety year old millionaire with a dodgy heart ...but in reality I'll be dragging myself on in my crumbling house and garden for years yet ...ill be on my death bed still clutching my never ending to-do list ....urrghhh

Me too.

I have three teens and one 10 year old.

It's a constant battle to get them to do anything other than screen time during the holidays.

Their hostility, sense of entitlement and laziness depresses me a lot.

I nag, I cajole, I bribe, I confiscate.

Nothing works.

I see other parents with children who actually achieve and enjoy stuff like sports, musical instruments, reading. Anything. Mine have zero interest.