to get so bored during the day

[peachlimeorange]

Probably because I am dieting so don't have the 'company' of food!

I wish i could hire someone to talk to sometimes.

Get a job?

Go for a walk?

Get a job! Or since you're dieting also go to the gym, walk, swim, cycle, run...the world's your oyster

I cant really afford to work tbh.

Anyway just want friendship really. Not 'something to do'

Go the gym and make friends there? Exercise classes?

I cant really afford to work tbh.

While I'm fairly sure this statement is accurate (given the way things are these days) it's also infuriating.

Can't AFFORD to work? Please do elaborate just in case I'm maming unfair assumptions.

I know what you mean, the dog got sick of listening to me today and walked off into another room!

I'm starting volunteer work at ds school from September, and I'm looking for Pilates and yoga classes. There is a three year counselling course I would like to do but it's too expensive

Childcare costs.

I'm not sure why the beligerent response, SD?

Can't afford to work

Yep having children costs money...who knew

And i am not complaining about that.

Just feeling very isolated.

Peach

There's nothing belligerent about it. Don't you see what's wrong with the statement "I can't afford to work" ?

Is the OP complaining about the cost of children? Do you know if her partner works and she takes care of the children so the family is financially independent?
No? You don't.

So why the attitude.

Read a book? You can down load free e-books online and join online book clubs. Some have local meetup groups.

Why do people have an attitude towards SAHM??

Wow. I love the aggressivity. You don't know if OP is on maternity leave, have a handicap that prevent her from working, would pay more in childcare than her salary would be or just can't find a job. Nope. Your answer to "I feel isolated" is "get a job you lazy slob". Well done people

Baby - because they assume they must cost the state money. Like pp have said it couldn't possibly be that the husbands earn enough to support them

Am on annual leave at the mo at home and also trying to diet, it's really hard to get used to not snacking on nice stuff during the day.

No one (thus far) has an attitude so far as I can detect. Someone suggested getting a job and the response from OP was that she can't afford to work. Am I the only one who sees a problem with that statement?

I suspect I won't be.

Is that it? Claim no benefits at all.

I know Nurse but reading isnt company really.

SD no i dont see what is wron with it. Its fairly well known childcare is expensive!

Not a parent but doesn't everyone get 30 hours childcare free now so childcare wouldn't be that expensive if you've only got to cover the remaining hours.

Baby - because they assume they must cost the state money. Like pp have said it couldn't possibly be that the husbands earn enough to support them

No, no assumptions were actually made on my part, in fact I asked OP to clarify just in case I was making unfair assumptions.

And none of it matters, she didn't say her husband/partner/whoever ears enough to cover life - she said she can't afford to work

You only get the free childcare hours if the nursery can provide it I think and demand is pretty high now

Sd go ahead and fix society then. In the meantime, what do you want OP to do? And what does it have to do with her feeling bored and isolated.

Op is not an idiot, if "just getting a job" was her solution, she would call the "just getting a job helpline" and receive one.

But if you can't work because of childcare costs, you must have children so... take them out, text one of their friend's mums and arrange a catch up, go to a group. There's so much you can do.