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I need a holiday from me

3 replies

FlemCandango · 11/08/2022 23:32

I need to stop being needed
At work I need to be competent, empathetic, knowledgeable,, versatile, decisive, a team player but self-sufficient.
For my kids I need to know where that t-shirt they want to wear is. To listen, to remember their important stuff and the food they like and to get more ice.
For my husband I need to be kind, loving, sexy, know where his clean shorts are, remember his important stuff remember to say I love you be sexy be be be be be be ad infinitum.

For me I need to be better as I don't do anything well enough, I forget names, bills, dates and everything I am dumb.

I just want to stop needing to be or do anything please as it is tiring.

OP posts:
WinterDeWinter · 12/08/2022 00:00

Oh OP, I'm sorry. It sounds as though you don't need a holiday from you but from others. Your DH's demands seem to be the ones which might be most capable of change. You don't 'need' to be sexy, for eg. He needs to understand you are at breaking point and not only stop making any demands upon you but step up and take on a 50% share of the demands that your children (naturally) make. Kids need parent/s - it doesn't have to be a mum.

EmmaH2022 · 12/08/2022 00:11

He doesn't know where his clothes are?

good grief.

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