I cannot bear how mundane this life is!!!

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I'm so fed up of rushing to work, rushing to collect dd! Rushing to make dinner rushing to get her in the bath and bed.

I'm fed up of having to do all cooking and cleaning then dd just comes in and throws clothes on the floor or leaves crap around (although I understand it's not her fault she is only little). I'm also fed up of having to paint my house and do DIY!

But more than anything I fed up of sitting at home every single evening bored because I have to be stuck indoors as dd needs to be in bed at that time.

I eat lots of crap in the evenings because I'm bored and fed up and drink wine alone like a saddo 1-2 times per week at the moment!

How the hell am I meant to enjoy life like this? I really want something that is enjoyable for me, but I either don't have the time or money!

It's just so frustrating and now I've even started crying about it this evening! Errrr

Didn't want to read and run. I do empathises as have brought up dd2 alone since birth and worked

How old is your DC?

Thanks, I know there's not really anything anyone can say or do I just needed to get it off my chest as it's all got ontop of me!

My dd is 6 and is generally quite well behaved so it's not anything to do with her it's just how I feel! So fed up!

How old are your dcs?

Never sit down in the evening without a plan:

• jigsaw
• box set
• learn the language you've always wanted to speak
• learn to play bridge/backgammon/chess* (replace with game of choice)
• read the classic novels you never got round to
• review your love of knitting/sewing/piano

You get the picture I'm sure.

Can you pay a babysitter op, even once a fortnight? Hope you are ok

You're just at the start of the years where you can meet up with people, invite other mothers round to chat while children play on a Saturday evening find other ways to socialize. Over time you find people who are also on their own, not always all of the time but certain parts of the week or weekend I think.

I feel the same and empathise! My ds is nearly 3 and have been alone since he was about 9mths. I work FT and its always rushing around from one thing to the next.

I miss every works drinks etc due to no babysitter and its lonely at times....no social life whatsoever!

Go to meet ups online, that way you can meet up with people if your DC goes on a sleep I over

Buddy up with anyone else for sleep over so you can have some nights out and meet people but not in a pressured way of dating

At six I used to do swimming or cinema late afternoon and a pizza out afterwards as a treat so it was a shorter evening at home

I also used to do a library visit one evening a week so it was a shorter evening, how sad was I?

Mine are now 15 and left home age! But I still do a lot with dd and we are close all three of us

Jean - I see what you mean I don't think I'm very good at doing the types of things you listed I always feel I should be doing something useful and if I'm not I just sit looking at rubbish on the internet.

Mrswelly - I can't afford a babysitter, my mum is nearby and will have dd if I need her to, but I don't like her being out during the week as she has school and I also find that as I never have any spare time the few times I do have a day or evening to myself I have nothing to do as I don't have much of a social life!

Noego - I do have a couple if friends that I meet up with that have kids! We go out or having evenings in with Wine while the kids play. It's just that the while week seems so boring and lonely.

Sorry I know I'm sounding miserable, I'm not normally like this. Actually nearly everyone I know thinks I'm always happy and smiling lol

Geology - it's just so hard and bring all at the same time isn't it

Ivy - I know the library thing sounds quite sad, but on Sunday we popped into the library quickly to get a book dd needed for school and there were a few mums and kids just chilling out in the library. I thought I might give it a try sometime as dd loves reading and I also like to read if I find a good book.

The few times you do have free time you have nothing to do

That's where something like meet up comes in where you can dip in and out of a social life and its on tap, suddenly if you can't make it its fine or suddenly you have a free night you can go out and join in and have fun

What sort of meet ups? Like mumsnet ones? Or something different?

Google

Meet ups

There are lots of groups on there I belong to two groups one meets for pub drinks and cinema or bowling, archery and bat spotting

The other meets for board games, cake and chat cinema all sorts of stuff that is inexpensive

meetup.com

I've just googled it and had a look. So do you just go along on your own to these things?

I know it sounds silly but I feel like it might be a bit cringy

I'm good at talking to people etc but things like this I've never done and I'm not sure about it. I feel like I might be left standing there like an oddball

I've been to a couple of meetup things, and it's really not like that. The thing is that you've met because you have a common interest (walking, cinema, books or whatever) so the conversation just flows, people really do make an effort to talk to newcomers. Chances are you won't be the only new person either.

It is a really good way to have a social life when you are single and don't always know whether you can get out and about - as you can cancel at the last minute if something comes up and no babysitter without letting people down and you can join in last minute if you get some free time rather than kicking your heels

It is friendly and remember everyone is coming align on their own you are not surrounded by couples and with 40 people in a pub at the same meeting there are plenty of people to talk to etc

Very good advice JaneSeberg!

Is your DD helping you with the cleaning/tidying? She may only be able to do a little but it does help eg putting her dirty clothes in the laundry basket, putting her plates in the dishwasher, helping you when you dust (mine love wet wipes as they can see the muck they've cleaned up). It does make a difference.

Just wanted to say hi. I am 2 weeks in to being a single parent. I have dd age 5 and ds age 2. Just googled the meet up site and looks interesting although due to living in a small northern village there isn't an awful lot going on near me!

How's everything Milkysmum? Hope you are ok

Milkysmum, I totally get you. Few years back my ex was considering for us all to move up North, where most of his family lives. Boy, am I glad now I put my foot down on this one! It was bad enough to move out of London into the sleepy suburbs, but I get it - the kids have so much more for that. Yet again, I'm in commutable distance to London and few other cities, now that I'm on my own and dreading the evenings at home; at least I know the city life isn't too far away and I can get out whenever I can't stand yet another lonely evening at home.
Would moving closer to a bigger town be an option for you, Milkysmum?

Looked at meetup.com. Nothing round where i am. Nearest ones are the city 50 miles away.

OP my life's like yours. It's boring and upsetting. I can't get babysitters and have no family.

The weekday nights are tiring and once ds is in bed (he's 6 too) I just look at the internet and drink wine. Do the washing, hoover a bit, drink wine, look at the internet, tidy his crap off sitting room floor, drink wine, set his breakfast out and clean uniform, set the alarms, drink wine...then go to bed.

Often I don't even bother getting undressed.