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Do you ever want to press the 'pause' button on your life and go do something else

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paganmolloy · 05/09/2017 15:30

Coz I feel like that right now. My DH and I have some issues going on and have done for quite some time. As we try to discuss and sort them I can't help but feel that they will never quite be resolved (sex issues). But everything else in our lives is pretty good and we are blessed with two great kids, so there is a lot to hang in there for and life probably wouldn't be all rosy and delightful if we just gave up and went our separate ways. But how I long to be able just to pause my life and go and live another one for a few months - travelling solo, meeting new and interesting people, shagging some of them, wandering on, working elsewhere, in another part of the country/world where I only have to look out for myself. I'm not looking for any advice - just day dreaming of a parallel universe. Ho hum!

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Justbreathing · 05/09/2017 17:30

I know you're not looking for any advice. But it sounds like you are not happy.
most people don't wish to go off and shag other people! they might want to do the other bits!

Dappledsunlight · 05/09/2017 23:11

I'm with you, Paganmolloy, for all of it!!

Nadinexo1 · 06/09/2017 10:13

I love my life with my kids too but I too daydream about being able to get up and go somewhere by myself and travel and the rest of it. I think many of us feel this way.

RedRoseGirl · 06/09/2017 10:25

I am completley with you Paganmolloy

How can we make it possible ?!

Dappledsunlight · 06/09/2017 10:31

Unfortunately, I think it's rare for anyone to achieve as living 2 lives is an impossibility. We have to give up some freedoms to have others. We have to accept the limitations in our lives.

paganmolloy · 06/09/2017 17:21

Nice to see some others think the same. I don't think we live in a world where we can make it happen - it's just not that sort of society. Or if it is, then, as a couple, you have had 'that' discussion before being involved in a relationship with each other so you both know where you stand and are comfortable in giving each other such space. Suppose the danger is, then, that the one on the sabbatical doesn't come back because they are having too much fun. Perhaps green grass syndrome. But I am just day dreaming

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yetmorecrap · 06/09/2017 17:40

there is nothing wrong with you at all thinking this. In fact those that dont maybe have a lack of imagination or ambition!!

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