I walked past my daughter's teacher (actually he was her teacher last year) this morning and he disinterestedly said hi, realised my crush on him and the attendant fantasy that he "understood" me and is super interesting and funny is just a pile of tosh as I hardly know him. Sooooo am left with the reality of my life with my dh which is fine in that we have 3 lovely kids, a house (even though he is very stressed paying mortgage) etc.... but I am bored by our interactions and want to meet more and interesting people to talk to and share ideas with - he is quite censorious in a way and also fairly bad tempered and critical often, when he is stressed which is a lot of the time. I don't want to knock my life with him as of course you are not always going to be madly "in love" and I do feel comfortable with him, but am finding his cynicism, prejudices, constant lectures and constant watching of the tv a pain in the neck. Our family life is cosy but I so would like to know other people (and not only other mothers) more in depth.... anybody relate??? Not really a problem this, just sharing ideas...