If relationships had worked out I would have been

[isitsnowingyett]

• a gamekeeper's wife 😳
• a wife of an American military bod probably divorced
• living in a cottage in a small village in the Scottish Highlands
• living in Tennessee in a very Christian environment

How about you?

Almost certainly the sole earner in the marriage.

Serving a long prison sentence for murder.

A) child very young (I terminated) with a lay a bout still picking up all his crap!

B) very financially secure living between London and South Africa but.... I suspect miserable and lonely!

If relationships had worked out I'd have been:

1. A vicar's wife in the Irish Republic
2. The wife of an itinerant chef in SW
3. In debt, abused & very lonely in Wales
4. Living in the Midlands with an engineer
5. A musician's wife in a house by the sea

Instead I'm single, quietly happy with my life, and reflecting on how almost none of those lives would've made me happy.

Living with an abusive, now-transwoman
Supporting a man-child in his parent's house
Living in Spain with a pilot

I'll take the life I have over any of them

possibly regretting my choices

super fit doing hyrox - definitely regretting my choices

😮

Interesting concept for a thread:

1. Living in Munich and married to a patent officer. I probably would have been happy with him but we were young and it was a LDR and didn't work out for that reason.
2. Living in an expensive house in the South East and married to the chief executive of a large company, dressing up to go to corporate events and living that kind of lifestyle and not very happy because it really isn't me (He was a very nice guy though)
3. Married to an obnoxious twat who is an electrical engineer and I'd definitely be contemplating divorce
4. Living on a farm in the wilds of Derbyshire with a retired academic who turned out to be gay, he still isn't out.
5. Tearing my hair out trying to get lazy cocklodger to get a job and stick to it rather than living with me at my expense and sitting on the sofa eating pizza with one hand while on the internet up to 20 hours a day.
6. Living where I am now but constantly living in fear of whether 'D'P would be coming in drunk or not, or if he'd be showing up at all. He's never got any better - lives nearby and moves from woman to woman, just as long as he doesn't actually have to get his own place and pay for it.

And currently single and happy with that after what I've been through. Number 1 and 2 from my younger years were the best but at the time they weren't right either because they were ready for more commitment and I just wasn't at that time. And number 2 was just too corporate and I'm very outdoorsy, rolling around in mud etc.

Living in Canada

Living in Kansas

Bored out of my skull!

Having really bad sex...moving towards the dead bed

A stepford wife feeling isolated and lonely

Having great adventures, feeling very treasured and living by the sea

(All different exes obviously!)

Married to an electrician dealing with his massive intertwined family... Married to a carpenter and trying to keep up with the Jones as he was LL about appearances... Married to a teacher living way up North with 2.4 children etc...

Nothing very exciting really tbh.

I would be with the love of my life but I don't know if I would be happy because god forbid he ever put me first before his huge family and friends. The same family that has scattered across the globe.

Some of these sound like really fun alternate lifetimes!

Others not so much haha

Gosh, I could have been serially cheated on and abused or a farmers wife. Dodged a fair few bullets in my time!

A widow. Or would I? Could I (or anyone) have saved him? 💔

Married to a very hot Irish solicitor.

• Married to a posh but sweet human rights lawyer who was surprisingly good in the sack.

• Living with a fun but narcissistic TV executive, who would have always had other women on the side.

😁

• deeply unhappy wife of an employed bum
• wife of a massively overweight soil technician (whatever that is)
• god knows, because I haven't seen him in years despite living in the same town, I assume wife of a person who makes conservatory doors 🤷🏼‍♀️
• still a DV victim

glad I left all of those situations

Chances are married with 2 kids

On an army base

Living a quiet life in Scandinavia

A touring musician’s widow

Married to a beige, prissy, jealous, sexually inadequate civil servant, counting every penny whilst living in a tepid 3 bed-semi in Hull. In other words, dead!

Married to a breathtakingly beautiful, bookish, witty but miserly, self centered bloke in Yorkshire. Who has now clearly aged very, very badly and is portly, with hairy ears and likes the beer too much.

Very, very happy I ended up with DH.

Someone said having really bad sex and id like to add, I've had probably have bought
myself some sort of sex wetsuit, bloody hell it was lying at the bottom of niagra falls the amount that man could sweat during sex, and his arm would give in and he'd just colapse on me 😭🤢

An unhappy scared woman -exh was physically and mentally abusive.

A pilot's wife

I'm neither, but I'm happy, and that's what matters.

Dentist's wife
Farmers wife
American footballer's wife
Wife of a deadbeat

Supporting a very mentally unwell schizophrenic and sporting a lot of bruises.

Living in North West USA with a very outdoorsy lifestyle.

Living in Finland with a depressed partner and a non-existent sex life.

1. living in Sussex, tripping over my husband’s muddy boots after he left them in the hall upon coming home from an archaeological dig. Probably broadly content but bored, knowing that things were good enough but not quite right.
2. the wife of a successful author currently on a press tour for his third novel, resentfully watching him charm absolutely everyone while knowing myself that he can’t live without constant performative devotion
3. living in Inverness with three spaniels and some very muddy, outdoorsy children all conceived without me ever having had an orgasm
4. the wife of a diplomat, wondering if being married to a woman was impeding her career while trying to manage her extreme mood swings and ride the highs and lows

Thankfully none of these did last, because I found my husband instead and I honestly think he and I were put on Earth for the purpose kr being perfect for one another and I am, largely, ecstatically content with my life.