to get the urge to jack it all in, opt out, run away.......

[SheelaNeGig]

normal life is just too much sometimes.

I don't want to do it any more.

I wsnt to walk away. Travel the world. Sit in beautiful places. Eat good food. Peace....

Bollocks to the bills. Sod work. Stuff it.

And me. I want to leave the bastards to their own devices and bugger off for a week in the sun.
Without preparing any meals, leaving any instructions or doing a shop. Or any cleaning or making arrangements.
Grrrr. Family. Sometimes drive you insane.

That's me on occasion. Generally happy, but my god sometimes it would be nice to be free of all responsibility.

me too at the moment. I was pretty content over the summer hols. Then bam - this week its big thing after big thing and you know what - I cant be arsed.

I think this is more common than you'd realise. I would certainly dump the lot and run in two ticks - but............I have a sneaking suspicion the same shit would still exist just in a nicer sunnier place with outdoor cafes and good coffee!

I have a little daydream every so often where I'm either driving away or just running I have no idea where I'm going but I feel free. I've also daydreamed about blowing my savings and buggering off to a hotel for a few days and just not telling anyone.

I'm going on my own to a conference where I don't know a single other person, for five whole days, next week. Lots of sleeping and reading novels and drinking mini bar wine and the occasional lecture. I cannot wait

I think this is a fairly normal emotion.

YANBU. I feel like this every so often. Fight or flight.

I used to like listening to this song when I felt like running away.

I have my annual week off in 3 weeks. I cannot bloody wait.

I am slightly concerned i won't come back though.

Oh yes, I get this urge a lot . I love my family but everyday life is sooooo tedious - I mean, I've got at least another 15 years of this by my reckoning and 6 years into having children and being a responsible grown-up I'm already bored senseless! Went out at the weekend and had a great time (hadn't been out that late since I met DH 11 years ago) and since then I've been desperate to just have more freedom :( DH not interested in socialising so even when the kids have grown up my social life is unlikely to get better. Would love to just jack it all in at times but I have to just suppress the urge to run away from real life. In my worst moments I wonder whether life would be better if I hadn't married young, if I'd had more experiences before settling down, if I hadn't had children. Am quite and :( that I feel this way.

Oops sorry, that got a bit heavy. Most of the time I'm content with my lot, honest I suspect if I were single and free from the responsibility of a family, able to go out wherever/whenever I wanted etc the novelty would soon wear off!

Yes two I often chat to my sister about her dates and having to go to weddings alone etc and remember how mis I was when single- I dot want to go back to that / wish I was back there

But i like time I myself - working is great for this, I go to two conferences a year :)

Currently dreaming of some sunshine by the beach :) oh that would be bliss...

Twolittle, it wouldn't be any better, I settled down with children in my thirties, I had enough fun & irresponsibility for a thousand life-times before that. It wasn't enough. I dream of escape.

Of course, if I did escape, I would be bereft, empty & worthless for running away from my lovely life.

It's just a happy little fantasy.

So so true lastnight. I got married in my mid-twenties, so youngish by today's standards, I guess. BUT, I had packed a great deal of hedonism into the years preceding it. I was bored shitless with it eventually and wanted to settle. I don't regret settling down but I do think it's quite normal to daydream and think 'what if?'

YABU....unless I can come with you? I'll be no bother, honest.

I really wish I had enjoyed the pre-mortgage years more. Or had bought a place much earlier in life, so that I had benefited from cheap credit/property price increases in the late '90s.

And after years of TTC I wouldn't be without my DCs for all the world. But...oh, to escape for a little bit!

I sometimes fantasise about being struck down by a highly contagious but non-painful disease, where I'd have to spend a week in an isolation room in hospital with no visitors. I'd have a pile of books, and my meals would be brought and my bed would have clean ironed sheets.

AP I had surgery for dermoid cysts last year, it was bliss

Ahhh - I do that AP, just a gentle illness - nothing major, but quite, quite incapacitating, requiring round the clock nursing care (in my own bed) & complete rest & quiet for AT LEAST SIX MONTHS.

I would have been a very happy Victorian consumptive (without the inevitable wasting & death bit at the end obviously).

Oddly enough I have been feeling like this recently. Summer didn't go to plan - I feel I am a puppet being pulled by everyone else and I never seem to get anything done or choose how to spend my day. I "steal" acouple of hours here and there but I'm always aware of the next deadline, (a shop, a meal, a pick-up..) and i never have time on my own. I saw a lot of other parents at school gates today and they were all so bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I thought it was just me who felt like this.