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to feel life is just totally relentless just now?

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ssd · 26/02/2012 22:45

I'm fed up. Life is just one long round of cooking/cleaning/separating fighting kids/worrying about my elderly mum and feeling guilty if I don't do special things for her all the time/worrying about money/feeling isolated and alone.

we have no family to help out with either the kids or my mum, it's all down to me/us

we haven't had a real break ever, no one comes and takes the kids for the weekend/night and organising them to go to friends at the same time usually never works out, someone is busy/working/ill etc.

we have absolutley no support. my kids are pre teens so its not like they need looking after all the time, but neither are they self sufficient yet and need looking after/driving about to their clubs etc and its all wearing me down

my mum is old and I have no family here to help out with her, she lives in sheltered housing but there is no one else to visit her at weekends/shop for her/sort things out for her etc etc again its all down to me, siblings are far away and hopeless

its all just going on and on with no breaks, no fun, no adult stiff, just the kids and my mum needing me all the time

and plse don't suggest anything that takes money, we have none of that either

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ssd · 29/02/2012 08:06

Smile cloudbase

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ssd · 29/02/2012 08:09

I think getting a bit of time to myself is the answer, although sometimes when I do get time it makes me feel more isolated Confused

its the feelings of isolation I can't seem to shake, they have plagued me all my life and my current situation brings them all back with a vengence

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Winetta · 29/02/2012 09:34

Hey SSD sorry to hear how you're feeling and about your isolation, I understand that, I get that too - a lot. Things that have helped me are also going to the library/art gallery/museum (all free!) and also joining a book club. Hope that helps.

ssd · 29/02/2012 09:43

funnily enough I've been looking into joining a book club!

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MidnightWorry · 29/02/2012 11:24

might not be the best option but...

have you though about something you really like? for me it was coke and i would think about it all day, once the kids were in bed i could have my treat you know?

whats your one thing you love?

ssd · 29/02/2012 22:39

I don't know midnight Blush

honestly!

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