To feel totally deflated on exchanging house contracts?

[bundybear]

So we exchanged contracts on our house today after 6 months of wrangling and confusion. I expected to feel pop-the-champagne happy but I don't, I feel massively deflated

I like the house we've bought - I did love it but I think the torturous process of securing it has taken the gloss off it. It's not supposed to be our forever home, just a stop gap somewhat forced by the arrival our third child and totally running out of space. I love aspects of our current house, although other aspects have driven me insane for years. We've taken a hit on it as we bought at the peak of the market so I think that's a factor too. I feel very torn about leaving.

Has anyone else experienced this? Have I just over-thought the whole thing because it's been such a long, stressful process? I do have a tendency to expect the worst so maybe I'm just being pessimistic about the whole thing...

DH is mad with me for been 'unenthusiastic', please tell me something to make me feel better!

Passmethecrisps, excellent advice.
Reminded me of the day we finally sold and within hours had offer accepted on dream house after some tense negotiations. I had to make a final decision as Dh was busy with the dcs and I was finishing work and the calls came to me! I had to bite the bullet and up the offer £££ but it was absolutely the right decision.
He opened the door with a bottle of fizz and roses when I got home.

House buying is an odd process. It is SO stressful it's mad!

You do everything you can to make it happen but the rest of the chain plod along, or so it seems. Ridiculous questions and long waits for other things to happen, then suddenly, almost out of the blue you get a call to say ,you've exchanged'.
It's a bit like 'huh?!'
Then you worry that the other party will still pull out, which is a different sort of stress.
Then you get to completion day, and the removals company don't turn up. They forgot. So another stress. Then you pack and move, usually at 4 pm when the money has finally winged its way through the chain, and the removals peeps are all grumbling about finishing at 5.
Then in after a few weeks when most of the boxes have been unpacked, you'll sit back and actuallpy really enjoy being in your new home,

Congrats on exchanging, you're now just a couple of weeks away from moving, and also congrats on dc no. 3.

I've had a very large glass of wine so apologies for any typos or idiocy, like I said its a wierd process. Xxx

Feel your pain. I'm 8 months into this process and I'm just about at breaking point.

Oof sympathies to the rest of you in the hideous pre-exchange limbo. We thought we had it easy with no chain below (cash buyer) and no chain above our vendor (new build) but oh my word it's been the most complicated nightmare. I feel like I've done a degree in conveyancing - I had to advise our vendor's solicitor! Luckily our solicitor has been amazing, almost like a counsellor lol, I'm actually going to go to her office and hug her when this is all done.

I've not gone literal cut and paste mad but I have let myself loose on pintrest and have been screenshotting from my phone non-stop. We're moving from a slightly crumbling but charming 1920s semi to a 20 year old modern house which is (we think) in great nick but the owners have vomited the B&Q wallpaper aisle all over it (turquoise and black pinstripes top to bottom in the hall, stairs and landing anyone?!). So plenty of cosmetic work to do, plus a new bathroom, to make it ours but hopefully without the headache of crappy wiring/plumbing/heating etc. Plus we've made a couple of compromises to make sure that we have enough cash to make a really decent job of whatever we do rather than having to bodge stuff ourselves.

I think it's hard too as the kids have never lived anywhere else and are heartbroken at leaving, even though it's only a mile up the road and they're getting a decent garden, a playroom and a private road for cycling on. My 5 year old is distraught that we can't take the picture rails with us!

It has been a hard few months and the really stressful bit has coincided with me returning to work after 13 months maternity leave, so emotions flying all over!

Thanks ladies, feeling better already