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AIBU never feeling happy with what I’ve got

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Twinsmamma · 04/04/2023 08:01

I seem to have a severe case of the grass always seems greener, and I just can’t shake it off! I spent a few years in my late 20s living in Dubai, I came home as I couldn’t find what I was essentially looking for in life which was to settle down, and I absolutely hated my job out there so felt the right choice at the time. I was at first, very happy to be back home, I then met my now partner and we had baby twins, everything I thought I wanted. We’ve had a rough time the first 2 years of being parents but are finally getting back to a bit of normality and now I'm
finding myself day dreaming of my old life feeling sick with regret I came home and gave up my life in the sun, I by NO means want to be single again but have this constant feeling I shouldn’t have come back when I did, or at least I should now relocate my family out there (sounds so dramatic and not realistic) or anywhere in the sun with a beach! but I don’t understand why can’t I just be happy, i have the stability and the things in my life some people only dream of! We do absolutely fine for money and have a nice home, all our family is close by I just feel I’m wasting my life living in a small town in the UK?! Can anyone give me any words of wisdom or their own experiences that may make me feel differently as it’s really getting me down.

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AbsoIutelyLovely · 04/04/2023 08:04

well generally I’m very content but we also left an exciting life abroad to come home and settle down after we’d had our first baby. I do have regrets in a way and always wonder how life would have turned out. And now we can’t leave without disrupting education.

what I will say is that my mum died recently and I am so endlessly grateful that my children knew her so well, this would not have been possible had we stayed away (we were in Africa). In many respects those relationships end up coming first.

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