Advice please to help improve my car parking skills and confidence?

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I am a woman in my late 40s and I have never been good at parking cars. I think I’m an ok and safe driver but when it comes to parking I tense up and often muck it up. So I avoid tricky parking and it just gets worse and worse. Today I tried to park in a diagonal parking space on a local high street and I ended up over two lines and there was a lot of traffic so I couldn’t easily go forwards to try again and as I sat there waiting for the traffic to go past j felt more and more stressed and I ended up driving home without getting what I wanted. Feeling like a fool.

I’ve had a look at some YouTube videos but I’m not sure how I’ll remember the advice when it comes to the real world. But maybe I just need to treat it like revising for an exam.

I wondered if anyone had any advice to help me?

thank you.

I have nothing further to add OP but just wanted to offer some solidarity. I hate parking! And when you get pressured and flustered and balls it up beyond any chance of rescue…you feel really stupid.

Do you have someone who can go out with you to practice? I feel less pressure from other drivers when I have my partner in the car with me.