When you realize you aren't happy.... - Page 2

[Verity]

I am going through a lot of the same stuff, and I can say with certainty it's not PPD. (My youngest is almost 3.) Some of mine must be classic mid-life crisis. I want to live somewhere else (I have been in the same state all my life), I'm still trying to figure out "what I want to be when I grow up," I can't believe I'm over 40 and my childbearing years are behind me, and I fantasize about leaving dh when our youngest graduates from high school.

I have been a SAHM for almost 10 years, happy most of that time, because pregnancy and birth, breastfeeding and AP were my obsessions. Now my kids are older and I am in a whole new (and frightening--the teenage years are coming!) phase of parenting. I had LLL as support for parenting babies and toddlers; now, there's nothing.

I need a plan, that's for sure.

[Super Pickle]

Hey Megan!
I've not been online a lot lately and had no idea you had had your baby. Congratulations!

I am sorry for where you guys find yourself. I ave similar thoughts often. Yesterday I was driving, deep in a funk, and Natalie Merchant's song "These are the Days" came on the radio. It made me think, these really are the days, when the kids are little....I wish I could appreciate it more.

I feel like lack of community and time is the plague of modern life.

I've been thinking about reading The Purpose-Driven Life; I've thought maybe that would help me get perspective. Would you be interested in reading it togethervia pm? PM me and let me know if you would. Take care and congratulations on your new baby!

[its_our_family]

Thanks for the congrats!

I'll pm you