What’s your worst part of adulting?

[Outnumbered1983]

Mine is having to come up with meal ideas, I hate it! Having to think of what to eat/cook every single day until you die 😂

Endless kitchen cleaning. My mind is so calm and clear when the kitchen is clean and tidy but getting it to that point every day drains me. Endless fucking emptying the dishwasher

Fucking dinner. I wish I could just give everyone a pill at 6pm.
that and money worries. Ugh.

The stress, anxiety, responsibility, burdens, fears, the grind etc etc.

Dealing with my parents suddenly becoming old when I swear they were 40 something's yesterday.

1. The expectation that I MUST be desperate to be in a relationship. Oh, and the pressure to be. Actually, I really like being single, and I'm happy like that!

2. Being seen as a woman who cannot manage all by herself. I may be small and slim, but I'm surprisingly mighty! Oh, and while we're at it, people (usually older men) who stare at me to make sure that I don't scratch their precious cars while parking mine. I can drive tractors and JCBs, so parking my tiny car will not be a problem!

3. Attempting to balance working, cooking healthy meals, doing the housework and the decorating, keeping on top of finances, and trying to squeeze in appointments and the occasional fun and interesting thing on my days off!

4. The disappointment that adulthood did not live up to the expectations that I had of it when I was at school. I thought, "How wonderful it must be to spend the rest of your life doing whatever you want!" Unfortunately, working for a living takes up far too much of my time!

The admin. Someone hit my car and I’m pissed off because now I have to sort insurance, get car to garage etc it’s just hassle. Then, train was cancelled. Can’t get refund in the app so have to faff about. I think it’s the admin that is caused by other people rather than myself that annoys me most.

The constant responsibilities. Having to be a good employee, daughter to aging parents, parent, housekeeper (inc cleaner/ cook/ family organiser), wife. It NEVER ends..

The financial responsibility.

Where is this place??? I need to emigrate there!

This with bells on!! It drives me crazy, pretty much every single day!!
Having to work every day is a very close 2nd for me 🙃

Things going wrong, and all the stress, time and expense of getting them back to the way they were. Like, you've gone through all that, and where are you? Exactly where you were this time last week. Not serious life-changing stuff, but repairs, accidents, fuck-ups that should have been avoided. Can't someone older and more responsible sort it out?

Making dinner every bloody day

when things break or I need to get a tradesperson in, I find the whole thing painful.

My dc are young adults now but it used to be:

• the school run (hated being tied down to it twice a day for over a decade!)
• when they were ill
• dh travelling endlessly
• worst of all… when they were ill at the same time as dh was travelling endlessly 😬

When you are ill, there is no mum to look after you.

I devote 10 mins every morning to cleaning one element of the bathroom because it’s my worst cleaning job too! Makes it less hideous!

Same. Closely followed by washing.

This… it’s often sends me into an existential crisis (currently in an extended one)! It all just seems so bloody futile …

Not living at home with my parents, with no responsibilities, bills or chores to do.
Realising we are all aging fast.

I love the idea of giving everyone a quick pill at 6pm. I have - 1 x vegetarian, 1 x doesn't eat red meat, 1 x autistic (cheese and tomato based meals only, with a choice of 3 tolerated vegetables), 1 x fine with everything. I love them, but thinking about catering for them all when they're home at Christmas is already bringing me out in hives.

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Leaving the obvious bits about losing people aside, for me it's being the one who can't run away screaming if there's a.spider in the house, leaving it for someone else to deal with. I just absolutely can't and there is always a panic while I try to get a sympathetic neighbour who can help.

Brushing my teeth EVERY FUCKING DAY TWICE A DAY TIL I'M DEAD I haaaaaaaaate it

Spent too long trying to find a lightbulb in the shops this afternoon Our Homebase has closed and couldn’t bear to drive across town to B&Q in half term traffic Tried a supermarket but no bayonets. Good old Amazon will deliver to me tomorrow.
I enjoy cooking which is lucky. DH will eat whatever I make and be grateful. DD21 on the other hand will waltz in and find some fault though will always eat it. I ignore because I know what she has ahead of her. One day she’ll appreciate what she had!

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