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

[ThisPlumShark]

Apart from your age
Maybe different job

I'll be 76, as will DH (assuming we're both still here). Our children will be mid-40s and happily married (both getting married this year) and we'll probably have more grandchildren to add to the one we already have. Suspect the dog featured in my MN name might no longer be with us but I don't want to think about that. I can't see why we wouldn't be living in our current house or enjoying the friends and life we currently have, but I know some things will change, inevitably.

I hope I'll still have a strong social conscience and am still signing petitions and going on marches.

My DC will be 20 and 22 so hopefully on their way to fulfilling their education and life goals! I am just starting a new career/ job path so I suspect I will not be in the same company but hopefully will have gained a promotion by then. It will be the year I turn 50 so hopefully I'll be planning some kind of big birthday celebration! Having said all of this, the twists and turns in my life have never turned out as I expected so we will see what happens!

I hope to god childcare will be easier! Mine will be 13 and 16 then. No doubt stroppy teenagers but I’ll take that over a stroppy toddler who doesn’t sleep!

I will be rapidly approaching 50, potentially an empty nester with all my children mid to late 20s and hopefully enjoying far flung beaches with my DH.

DC hopefully starting out in a career after studying. Maybe still living at home.

I'll be in my 50's, probably still alone. And lonelier if DC has left by then. Don't want to think who may longer be around by then. We've lost 4 major family members in the last decade already! Wondering if DC's one remaining GP will still be about by then, in their 80's. It's very possible.

In 10 years I’ll have 2 adult children and possibly be a Nan (eldest will be 32 then). I imagine I’ll still live here. If everything goes to plan l’ll be debt free and the world will be my oyster!

With any luck I'll be retired!

My DC will be in their mid to late 20s so hopefully they will all have graduated from uni and have jobs. DH and I will have paid off the mortgage and will either have retired or be very close to it. Sadly but realistically I am likely to have lost both my parents - unless one or both are still going strong at 93/98 - not impossible I suppose!

Hopefully I'll be retired and not having to go through this tedious daily grind of working.

I’ll have retired, down sized and hopefully enjoying life

My 3 kids will all be mid 20s. I will be mid 50s.

i assume i will be working, and have time for hobbies and social activities. a few weekends away once we dont have to pay for 5 of us! Still volunteering. Might get fit. I feel like my 50’s will be my Me decade - before the kids start having kids if they do. I am happy for any of my teens to live at home if they need to in thier early 20s but they wont need looking after.

Two 15 year olds and a 19 year old. Dear God someone tell me they're argue less. All boys.

Mortgage cleared. Daughter at uni. Almost certainly caring for elderly parents. Will still have shitty eye condition that will still need some kind of gross treatment that I pretend I am fine with.

I'll be 18 months from retirement and probably counting down the days!

I don't think much else will change. No plans on ever moving home now. I'm single and actively staying that way, so unless Mr wonderful sweeps me off my feet (highly unlikely!) that will be the same. No changing my career at this late stage.

DC are currently mid 30s and don't want DC of their own, so they'll be mid 40s then. I don't mind not having grandchildren. I'm really not fussed either way.

It sounds kind of boring spelling it out like that but my whole life up to the past few years has been turmoil and change. Happy to coast now. Especially as I'm not guaranteed to be here in 10 years as I'm only half way through "sniper alley" (as they call your 50s!).

The children will all be adults

I'll be 61 and retired. Hopefully me and DH both still healthy and travelling to lots of places. DD1 should be a fully qualified doctor. Maybe we'll be grandparents. Less cheerfully we'll have probably lost my mum, dad and lovely dog. Need to enjoy life now!

And my work is going through a reorganisation so my job will definitely look different!

I will be 80, so I don’t really want to think about it too much

I'll be early sixties, dh late sixties. He'll definitely be retired and I would LOVE to at least only be working pt by then.

Dd1 will be very early 30s, working in her chosen career and hopefully settled with a partner as I know that's what she wants. Dd2 will be mid twenties, God knows what she'll be doing but hopefully she'll have a place of her own and be happy.

No way will I still be working for ex husband. I actually hope my Dad isn't still with us by then as he'd be mid 90s and is already extremely frail. Same for FIL, much as I love them both. DM and MIL would be mid 80s and late 80s respectively, so that's a lottery.

DDog won't be with us as she's 9.5 already but if I'm healthy I fully intend to have at least one dog. And still no cats!

I would love to be wayyyy less skint, way less stressed, and wayyy bloody thinner. We shall see!

I'm the same, if i give in even a little, I've given in completely 😭 - it's only one day though, and I'd do the same if I were in Ireland for st Patrick's day

Your life in 10 years sound lovely 🥰

I'll probably not be around. I'm 54 now, I've got no pension provision, no savings or rich parents, and i rent, so when I have to retire I'll be fucked. There's only one way out, and I'm actually OK with that.

In all seriousness, it's just me and dd she will be coming up to her 16th birthday in 10 years

As she's autistic, i worry about her future. But shes so sweet and beautiful, I think and pray that she will have a happy life, whatever she chooses to do with it

I'll be 43 and approaching freedom - being hot is my goal, and i hope that i will be Samantha Jonesing it up, and that I've stuck to my plan of being one and done and losing weight

I won't be a homeowner but will have travelled with dd and be preparing to travel with whichever sexy man I'm seeing at the time

The next 10 years look alright, I hope

🙂

Edit - my cat will be almost 12 and very much alive and still mischievous

Our son will be 23 and hopefully finding his feet in the world. DH and I will be retired or about to retire. Mind blowing!

🥺 oh girl

Are you on the council housing register?

I'd get on it now, so that in 10 years, you might be eligible for something and be taken care of.

I hope that the next 10 years changes things for you - you deserve to be happy x

I'll be mid-50s with a 15 year old. I'm hopeful that will keep me young. I've got older children and there's a high chance I'll have a grandchild or two, cannot wait. Have no desire to give up work or retire anytime soon so working hard on building my career. Currently management but I'd like to be in a much senior role. Hopefully still happily married