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What do you think will be different in your life in 10 years time?

121 replies

ThisPlumShark · 17/03/2025 16:25

Apart from your age
Maybe different job

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vodkaredbullgirl · 17/03/2025 16:26

Near retirement.

slipperypenguin · 17/03/2025 16:29

Holidays without the kids

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 17/03/2025 16:53

I will be thin and sexy!!

I've been off carbs now for 16 hours and 53 minutes 🙌

familyissues12345 · 17/03/2025 16:54

I’m hoping to have grandchildren!

VioletCharlotte · 17/03/2025 17:04

Interesting question! I will be nearly 60. Still working full time (health allowing). If things go to plan, I will be living with my partner near the sea. DS2 will have moved out hopefully Something that makes me sad is knowing that I will no longer have my dog as he’s 15 now 😞
My parents will be in their mid 80’s.
I don’t really expect to have grandchildren as neither of my two seem fussed about having children, but who knows.

BeCalmNavyDreamer · 17/03/2025 17:08

I will have teenagers. Looking forward to more independence for all of us.

Midnightlove · 17/03/2025 17:09

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 17/03/2025 16:53

I will be thin and sexy!!

I've been off carbs now for 16 hours and 53 minutes 🙌

Well done hun! 🤣🙌

ShiftySquirrel · 17/03/2025 17:12

DDs will be 24 and 25 and proper grown ups. Hopefully earning their own money by then!

I'll be early 50s and maybe working part time (4 days would be nice). Maybe not though as DH will be retired so we might need the money - or we might drive each other nuts! He can definitely cook dinner every night though!

If my parents are still around they'll be in their early 80s, so I expect they'll need more help from me and dbro.

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 17/03/2025 17:17

Midnightlove · 17/03/2025 17:09

Well done hun! 🤣🙌

😭🤭 thank you 🥰, clearly this is going to work and I will not give up at the first sign of sugar 😭

Donotpanicoknowpanic · 17/03/2025 17:20

Mortgage not paid off but hopefully 3/4 of the way there,

I will be 53

Children will me mid to early twenties so I will not be needed day to day

Be nice if they still lived with me (not quite moved out yet)

It's just me and them so it's nice to have the company

Hopefully I will have that allotment I keep saying I will get

And a garden without a big trampoline taking up all the space

PrincessCalley · 17/03/2025 17:22

I'll be 50 and kids will both be in college. So house will be quieter as it will just be myself and hubby at home.

Frowningprovidence · 17/03/2025 17:22

My children will be adults. I Hope they will be living independently happy Iives, although one will need support

I will have 5 years mortgage left and hopefully still fit and employed.

Upsetbetty · 17/03/2025 17:23

This is not a question I feel I can answer at all…if you had asked me 10years ago what I thought my life would be like now…my vision would have been sooooo far off what it is! So in 10 years what do I think my life will be like? Apart from being 10 years older…I have no idea!!

helpfulperson · 17/03/2025 17:24

I'll have been retired for 7 years.

TickingAlongNicely · 17/03/2025 17:24

I expect DD2 will at university and DD1 will be working. DD1 might still be at home but encouraging her to be saving for her own place!

MajorCarolDanvers · 17/03/2025 17:24

Hopefully both children will have been and gone to university and getting established in their lives.

And hopefully DH and I will have retired, bought a place somewhere warm and be travelling the world.

That's the plan anyway.

Ph3 · 17/03/2025 17:25

My kids will be gone! 😱😭

Squirrelsnut · 17/03/2025 17:25

I'll be retired, I bloody hope. DS will have his own place. I won't live in Oxfordshire.

Differentstarts · 17/03/2025 17:26

Have a third child and be happy and stable or i might be dead who knows 🤷‍♀️

DramaAlpaca · 17/03/2025 17:27

I will be retired, for sure, and I might have grandchildren.

beetr00 · 17/03/2025 17:28

ah'll be deid 😮

Sunnyside4 · 17/03/2025 17:31

I will be retired. I intend to do more of the things I enjoy and hope I'm still ok healthwise to do some of them, ie hill walking and exercise classes (albeit something probably a bit more relaxed), as well as reading, more days and meals out. I'm pretty sure I'll also volunteer to help out at Riding for the Disabled locally..

DD will be 34 by then and if things go to plan for her and BF they'll be married with a baby/child, I guess living further afield.

chickensandbees · 17/03/2025 17:31

Retired
Downsized
DCs will be mid 20s so hopefully financially independent (although I'd be happy for them to living with us if they wanted)
Hopefully lost weight and fitter as part of the retirement plan
Hopefully less stressed.

Elderly parents....will they be still alive? Mum would be in her 90s. Dad would be late 80s, already suffering with dementia, parkinsons, mobility issues so honestly I hope he won't still be here.

HungryAndLazy · 17/03/2025 17:35

I'll be early 50's. The kids will be 17 and 20. A lot more freedom.
My parents might not be around which is sad to think about.
The house will hopefully renovated by then!

PoppyBaxter · 17/03/2025 17:36

I hope we will no longer have a mortgage.

I wonder how many parents we will have left (currently aged 73-78).

We will probably have another dog, as ours is now 10 😢

We may have relocated (again) after visiting a lively little city recently which has quite a bit more on offer than the sleepy market town we currently live in.

I won't be in the same job either way- I could never work for one employer for so long, I'd be bored rigid.

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