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So bored, I actually hate my life

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Pralineandcoffee · 25/04/2023 12:09

This is going to be long.
I'm 45, with 3 children. I left UK 22 years ago. I met my dh, had kids.
We live rurally, shit transport links, 3 miles to nearest shop. I'm not working, 2 kids in primary school, 1 in secondary school. They are always on school holidays, secondary school finish 28th May, primary 22nd June until September. There are no afterschool or breakfast clubs near me and I'm unskilled so even if I had a childminder it wouldn't be worth my while working.
I'm just so bored, I hate it here. I've got no friends, no hobbies, no life!
I need a job, I need money . I feel like my life is passing me by. My dh loves it here, this is where he grew up. The kids like it too.
I just want to have a normal life, I checked jobs in my area today, 15 jobs ina 50km radius of my house and I'm not qualified for any of them.

OP posts:
EdieLedwell · 30/04/2023 17:11

Best of luck!

Freckles81 · 02/08/2024 15:23

I know this is a really old thread but I hope OP got a job and is feeling happier x

hellesbells · 03/08/2024 15:22

Mooshamoo · 25/04/2023 14:27

It is so much harder to live in Ireland and be accepted, if you're not Irish .

I'm the same as you OP. I was born in England and I lived in England till I was 8 . My Irish mother moved back to Ireland with me when I was 8.

We are both adults now. My mother (she is fully irish) has loads of friends in Ireland.

I'm in my thirties now. I found Ireland to be a struggle all the time. I don't have many friends. I feel I was always looked down on in Ireland at every stage of my life for being English. I was never accepted in Ireland. If I go to a group even now, the other women dont really accept me because I am English.

Why do I still live here? I think I'm too nervous to move anywhere else by myself.

But life in Ireland is definitely very hard if you're not Irish.

You never tire of whinging about Ireland do you

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