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Have you ever had a time you felt your best days were over - but gone on to better things?

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ContemplativeFriday · 08/04/2022 20:27

Sorry, not sure if I'm phrasing it correctly. I feel like I'm being kicked in the face with fertility issues. At times, I'm optimistic I might one day have a child, then a few days later it all looks hopeless and unrealistic. The reality is probably that it could go either way.

Anyway, it's forcing me to look over my whole life and I get such a feeling of sadness that a lot is over. I buried one parent in my twenties and my other parent is very ill with cancer. I've also dealt with a lot of pain from a shit biological dad who has never wanted to know me.

Everything is combining to make me feel sort of emotionally flat and spent. I am blessed with a very happy marriage - but I wish somehow we'd met earlier, maybe I'd have children of my own if things had worked that way.

This got long but I wonder if anyone came through a time where they really wondered what the future held - and if it things worked out well for you in the end?

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whatsthestory123 · 08/04/2022 21:13

i also feel my best times are over but ive been married had children etc

im on my own now and 51 also have a couple of serious health problems and feel my best years are behind me

thank god for my kids we are very close but they have ther own lives as it should be

will be wathing with interest op

Ontobetterthings · 08/04/2022 21:38

How old are you

ContemplativeFriday · 08/04/2022 21:45

@whatsthestory123

i also feel my best times are over but ive been married had children etc

im on my own now and 51 also have a couple of serious health problems and feel my best years are behind me

thank god for my kids we are very close but they have ther own lives as it should be

will be wathing with interest op

I'm sorry you're feeling your best days are over and I hope your health can at least stabilise, even if the problems are chronic Flowers

I have autoimmune conditions (hence the fertility issues) so I know how really shit and devastating ill health is.

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ContemplativeFriday · 08/04/2022 21:46

@Ontobetterthings

How old are you
37.

It feels like all the fertile years I had have gone in a blur.

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