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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask what your biggest problem in life is at the moment?

765 replies

Biggybigbiggles · 06/04/2024 17:04

Just that really... mine is that I feel frumpy and ugly. Having always been tiny, I've gotten to 30 and I suddenly just feel disgusted with what I see any time someone takes a photo of me.

If you could click your fingers and remove a problem you have, what would it be?

OP posts:
BCBird · 06/04/2024 19:28

A big hand hold to you all.

OzziePopPop · 06/04/2024 19:31

WishesPromised · 06/04/2024 17:20

Money. Specifically not having enough. Not all of my problems would go away, but quite a few would and the others would diminish in debilitating impact on my life.

This!

Definitelylivedin · 06/04/2024 19:31

I'm suffering from withdrawal from Oxycodone. I've been on it for 3 months due to a bad dose of shingles. I've been reducing slowly but took my last dose yesterday.

I desperately want to change my job, I've been looking for 6 months now.

I don't want to swap my problem with others though. I don't live in a war zone, don't have cancer, quite like my body, and noone has died recently.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/04/2024 19:32

The amount of hair I've pulled out recently :(

ErinAoife · 06/04/2024 19:32

My life is a total failure,

MissingMoominMamma · 06/04/2024 19:34

Money worries and the effect that that is having on DH.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/04/2024 19:34

MiddleParking · 06/04/2024 18:41

I’ve had a horrible virus for three weeks that’s wasted a chunk of annual leave. That and the weather.

How come you're using annual leave for sick leave?

WickedSerious · 06/04/2024 19:35

My son,it's always been my son.

Also the house still needs a ridiculous amount of work more than twenty years after we moved in.

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 06/04/2024 19:35

My little pot belly. 😔Hoping it disappears over the next couple of months!

Ihateboris · 06/04/2024 19:36

Rectal prolapse and being told there's not much I can do about it

No pension provision

Hrt no longer working

Big toe nail has fallen off so I've not only got a manky arsehole, but manky feet as well.

Notcontent · 06/04/2024 19:37

GreekGod · 06/04/2024 19:10

One of my DC wants to go to Uni In London and am completely terrified. She's got into a fantastic uni and as we have been living overseas for many years in a very safe country, I really don't want her to go and am slowly trying to convince her to go to an excellent Uni in a safer area of the UK but she won't hear of it. The knife crime and crime rates are terrifying me - she's only 18, will be living on her own and has been living in a bubble for the last 18 years, not street wise at all. Trying to educate her but her positivity is so exhausting - really trying to navigate this without terrifying her.

This seems like a pathetic problem compared to those above I have just read. Am really feeling for everyone having a tough time.

@GreekGod London is actually really safe. Your dd is not any more likely to encounter crime in London than anywhere else. The knife crime you read about, while terrible, is not really random. I speak as a very protective mother of an 18 year old dd in London!

Daisy03 · 06/04/2024 19:37

Diagnosed with breast cancer today and thinking the worst

Theoriginalmrscillianmurphy · 06/04/2024 19:39

House repossession.

rubytubeytubes · 06/04/2024 19:39

My mum died recently, I wish I could speak to her one more time. She was my world and I feel so sad my heart keeps hurting like a physical pain

BobbyBiscuits · 06/04/2024 19:41

Feeling frumpy and ugly at 30, it will only get much worse, lol!?
Right now I guess fear for my mum's health.
Other than that I'm really lucky. Roof over my head, not dying imminently, can afford to feed myself.
My looks are something I've realised are simply unimportant. If your body works, that's the most relevant thing.

Mayhemmumma · 06/04/2024 19:41

Marriage woes
Depression
Weight
Money or lack of

Pottedpalm · 06/04/2024 19:43

Daisy03 · 06/04/2024 19:37

Diagnosed with breast cancer today and thinking the worst

Wishing you well. Cancer sucks 🌷

Pottedpalm · 06/04/2024 19:45

Damage from my cancer treatment that affects me every day.
Fear of the bloody thing recurring.
DH health
Money

Jeezitneverends · 06/04/2024 19:46

My relationship with my dh is all kinds of fucked up but I don’t have the balls to leave

my dd is living with a drug dealer and my nerves are shredded

(name changed for obvious reasons)

Chipandcheese · 06/04/2024 19:48

I'm always skint. Everytime I get a "pay rise", my rent or some other bill goes up to wipe out the increase.
"Have you thought about retraining?" Yes, I have retrained in a better paid career but the problem is everything has gone up so much, there probably wasn't any point in bothering (yes, I know I'm being a negative Nelly).
The plan for retraining was to be able to afford a small house but that's out of the window with the cost of living crisis. The new plan is to strive to keep my head above water.
Right now, I'm getting into debt each month as I'm reliant on credit cards.
And that's with a part time job in addition to my full time job.
I'm a single parent with one child and the other parent pays a pittance in child maintenance (all he can afford to be fair).
I'm on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment. If I'm lucky, I'll only be waiting 18 months and then another 6 or 7 months for medication.

Everything is fucking shit!!!

But I try my best to keep going and keep making the best of things.

Whatevershallidowithmylife · 06/04/2024 19:50

Take my cancer away.

Mixedvegetables · 06/04/2024 19:50

Health concerns.

Hugs to everyone struggling 💕 xx

JohnRedding · 06/04/2024 19:58

Sons suidice death and alcoholism

LoobyDop · 06/04/2024 20:01

I’m the only one in my family who is fit and healthy. My dad has terminal cancer. My mum is suddenly becoming frail, permanently affected by various minor things and obsessed with her own health, and my brothers have serious life-limiting conditions. My in-laws have all retreated into themselves and don’t want to know since COVID. My husband has had depression and anxiety for years, and he’s trying so hard and is much better, but he has his moments still. So it’s just me being the strong one. It’s lonely.

Ihateboris · 06/04/2024 20:01

JohnRedding · 06/04/2024 19:58

Sons suidice death and alcoholism

I'm so sorry x

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