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

[ThisPlumShark]

Apart from your age
Maybe different job

DS and DSS will both be adults. I could have grandkids, I guess.
DD will be 16 and hopefully have better health by then (she's having an operation this year).

If it all goes well, we'll have bought our own property.
I'll be mid 40s.

Potential Grandchildren.
Other dc in potential new relationship.
DH might have retired
Not to put a downer on things, but statistically will have lost some friends or family members along the way.
Hopefully will have moved somewhere smaller to take us into old age.

In 10 years time i’ll be 50 😱

I hope to still be relatively fit and healthy, having kept up good habits. Hopefully i’ll be living in my own place, after years of renting- even if it’s somewhere tiny.

I hope to have retrained into something more enjoyable, not sure what that is yet. And I hope to have kept my friendships going.

I do worry about some elderly relatives - currently in their early 80’s. One of them has had a massive heart attack, but seems to be recovering. The other one has had a few falls and seems to be getting frailer.

My dad died last year after years of suffering with dementia and I thought after all that I could relax a bit and make some plans, but I worry about what the next few years are going to look like for them, and how much care they are going to need.

Probably a different job (will still be a few years off retirement)

DD will be 25!!! Will be very exciting to see where she ends up (we should time capsule this thread).

So, no school fees and child free holidays.

I hope to be slimmer and fitter than I am now.

MIL will almost certainly no longer be with us (last parent living), but would be amazing if she still is.

We might finally have moving after 20 (it would be 30 by then) years of thinking about it 🤣.

Really interesting to think about!

I will be retired. kids will have all finished uni🤞
wouldn't mind a grandchild or two!
Realistically we may have lost one or more parents, mine are 76 and 75 now. They are very fit and well at the moment, so you never know 🤞
once we retire in the next 4-5 years, we are planning on travelling as much as possible.

I have suffered so many bereavements recently that I can no longer think into the future with optimism sorry that sounds so bleak

Will be 50s, hopefully not a full time teacher any more. One or both of the dc's may have left home, will have got through the Uni stage. We can downsize and move out of catchment, maybe seaviews. I hope my parents and inlaws will still be healthy and happy.

Hoping I'll regularly get a good night's sleep AND have my boobs back to myself.

My sons will be 16 & 20 respectively. I’ll be 52. We’ll have another 3 yrs on the mortgage. I’ll still probably need to work full time.

My parents will be in their early 80’s

I can’t really imagine it TBH, I live day-to-day at the moment so 10 years seems a long long way ahead. Hopefully I’ll still have my health.

I will be 67, no kids at home by then. Hopefully dh still around (he has a benign brain tumour), and we will both be retired. We plan to travel a lot and join classes and clubs, and fit in some voluntary work. I'm looking forward to it - as long as he's still OK 🤞

I’ll be 68 so probably retired by then. Eldest will be 39 and youngest 31 so maybe some Grandchildren? Hoping to downsize to a more lively city too.

I was diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago and would really love to be alive in ten years time.

Me and DH will be 72 and 81 respectively (assuming that I'm lucky enough to still have him with me - and vice versa of course!).

We will be aiming to still be enjoying retirement and being able to travel. I still want to be doing my regular dance classes to keep fit and healthy. My Mum will be 98, so feasible to assume that we may have lost her by then.

To be honest, just us both being happy and healthy will be enough for me.

I'll be in my late 70s by then and my kids will be mid 50s and all but one grandchild will be in their twenties. I have no particular plans for the next decade but possibly in 10 years time I might be:
Dead!
Widowed
Living in a different house (if this one becomes too difficult to manage)
Less physically able
More wrinkly

My hope is that l'll still be fit and well and enjoying life, still going for walks in the countryside, pottering in the garden, seeing my children and grandchildren and generally jogging along. With that in mind, I eat a healthy diet and try to keep slim and reasonably fit. So, fingers crossed I'll still be here 10 years from now.

I’ll be 54, with one child aged fourteen and in Year 9 and one aged eleven and in her first year at senior school. Life is very full on at the moment but I may have to return to full time work when both are in secondary, although I hope not!

In 10 years time all our children should have graduated and DH and I should hopefully be starting to go PT in anticipation of retirement.

I'll have Alzheimer's. I'll be late 70's, same age as my maternal grandmother had it, and same age as my mother also....probably runs in the family so I'm calmly resigned.

If I haven't got Alzheimer's, I'll be rejoicing!

Interesting thread. DC will be in their mid to late 20s and, I hope and pray, healthy, happy and thriving. I hope I'll continue to grow and develop in my working life and still be learning new things. I'd like to think that in the interim I'll have decluttered our home and got rid of all the unnecessary crap we've accumulated. Then, with the extra time I have when the DC are independent I want to spend time with lovely friends and family, making nice meals for people and going out to see films and plays or just go for walks in the part. Also want DH and I to be super fit to set ourselves up for old age to the extent that's possible, and to do more volunteering. I'd also really like to become a foster carer after the DC have moved out but don't think DH will be down with that.

I think DM and several other older relatives will be dead. It's in the natural order of things off course but so sad to think of life without them all. Also, comparatively trivial but I'm sad that our beloved little dog won't be around by then.

I returned to FT work at 50 and it's been great. I'm filling up the pension before the kids go to Uni and we have to support them through that.

Well, I'll either be 10 years older, or dead. Who could possibly predict the rest?

I will be 54 with 2 teenagers and mortgage free. Hopefully I will be working a reduced week and enjoying more freedom.

I'll be poor and ill.

I'm one of those lazy people who are in the news at the moment who can't work and are trying to claim disability benefits.

I'll definitely be retired.
(Am early 50s, planned since late 40s to retire at 55, and having more and more thoughts of finishing earlier).

My children will hopefully be totally independent.
(22yo has just moved to London for his 1st job post graduation last summer, 19yo is living at home having started an apprenticeship last autumn. So they aren't a tie at the moment).

I suppose I might have grandchildren.

I expect the dog (7.5) will have died.

I'll hopefully be living with DP of nearly 7 years.
(Was waiting for my kids to finish education, and now for his dog to die - cos I'm not prepared to live with it full time).

If my now late 70s parents are still alive then I expect they'll need more assistance, or more probably care of some sort.

I'll probably still be in the same house, but starting to think about downsizing.

I'll be 3 weeks from getting my state pension!!

I'll be finally size 12 and slim and healthy and pissed off with myself for not getting my shit together when I was young.

( I'm also off carbs @mumofoneAlonebutokay for about a week but breaking free today cos its St Patrick's and I'm in Ireland on a bank holiday. I thought I might treat myself to some toast, so I followed it with half a pack of doritos, a twirl and a bag of squashies. This is why I need to go back off carbs and not ever again think I can have a 'little of what you fancy'.)

In 10 years I'll be quite wealthy if I'm honest as kids will be educated and mortgage almost paid off, as we have a high income I haven't really considered what that means, I just hope I have good health. Dh and I will probably travel a bit and live a more luxurious life. I hope I have a strong friendship group, I always make an effort socially even when it's tricky because I'm hoping it pays off and I can enjoy a busy social life in my 50s.