Old bodies and scars in their soul

It's just much harder managing that when you live alone than with a larger family. Even the smallest portions can be a lot for a single person. My mom never had trouble with that when she cooked for us 4. Now that she's living alone, she's having these problems too.

I find this to be a very comforting feeling.

My dad used to always say this and I thought it was just something old people thought. Youth is truly wasted on the young.

Story of my life. Even when you make relatively okay money, every f*****g thing is so so sooo expensive.

Wow, really? Maybe you should change jobs if you feel like you want to die or need to find excuses not to go! Working isn't that bad! I mean, of course it depends on each person's job, personal motivation, and other factors such as possible illnesses (I'm thinking of depression), but weren't you already more or less used to this sort of morning routine when you went to school? High school? University?

Yep. That's a sad one too. But life goes on....

I'm 73. When i was younger, both my parents advised me to always have younger people among my friends. i have found this to be very wise advice.

Yup. Beds are suddenly crazy expensive. Tables and Sofas/ couches too! Suddenly, DIY carpentry and solution videos fill your YouTube play list. Then you begin to wonder how dad and mom didn't completely lose their s**t every time you jumped on the furniture..

5-6 weeks in my country ;) and those are paid.

i finally put together a four week turn-around menu. It took ages but now i know ahead of time everything we'll be having for dinner.

THIS

The best math class I took was business math. My dad didn't want me to but I had a hard time in pre-algebra in middle school. Business math was the same level as pre-algebra, but it was applied math. That was one of the most useful classes I took. I have always done my own taxes, even when the return was still on paper. I do wish they'd gone into stocks & mutual funds and that type of thing. We got a bit of that in economics in high school, but not nearly as much when you figure how much it can affect your life.

Seriously. It’s like we just assumed healthiness was standard.

Learn to cook, man!

I don't love my field of work, but I get by by enjoying being useful. Can do most jobs that way.

Sleep is like the Lochness Monster...

This :( I lost a really good friend because once she became a mom, she had no time for me. And she was jealous of all the fun things I was doing in life (because I don't have kids) so she stopped being my friend.

Yeah they do take work but it shouldnt be hard. I have been with my guy for 15 years, we met when we were 18 and went through a lot of changes and basically grew up together. It was actually a lot harder when we were younger. Now we say "I love you" every day and thank each other countless times throughout the day "thank you for cooking us dinner", "Thank you for picking me up from work". Being proactive and grateful, I believe, is the key to a healthy and long lasting relationship. Also, have lots of sex.

This needs to be higher. I see so many friends and relatives (and i did it for a while too until i realised how damaging it was) holding onto grudges from things that happened to them when they were kids.

The more prepared for a rainy day you are, the less they'll come. After all it's not a rainy day if you're fully expecting it.

So true. So true it hurts.

This makes me sad... :(

Ooooooh yeah.... That one is exhausting.... *sigh*

wait. I should be washing my curtains? really?

Still loving europe

Sadly true

YES! feel like im always living for the weekend when i should be making the most of my weekday evenings just as much

And the feeling of fear that comes with this responsibility. Are you really helping or are you just insulting them? And what if you are wrong? I really want an "owner's manual" for the human life.

definitely!

Hell I cook every Night. Too bad that the good stuff I make is still bad for me. Seems everything is bad for you. Maybe I just need to eat less of it.

wtf? Speak proper English.

"Will I remember this fight in 5 years, will it still upset me?" probably not, so best let it go now

Yes, one of the good things. It took me 2 divorces to be happy with just me and not worry about what others think.

When I had this epiphany it was both the most terrifying and the most liberating moment of my life.

That means they get to make different mistakes first and you can learn from watching

I could not agree more. Worse though when you might look like the bad guy because everyone around the toxic person either believes their manipulation or too new to knowing them

After dealing with my own credit issues, I made sure my children were constantly told about the effects of bad credit. My 33 yr old & I just had this conversation 2 days ago--now he wishes he'd followed mom's advice!

It gets worse.

I take a deep breath, pretend to be someone who can cope, do what I need to do, go home and cry under the covers and sleep for a couple of days and do nothing else for weeks. Faking confidence has consequences. Friends are used to me being full on over the top when in public. It's how I cope. No sliding scale... full on or off. Usually chat via text, much calmer

air is cheaper

yup...that about covers it...oh, and being 17 on the inside and 60 (yrs old) on the outside.

Correlation not causation

But you can make that easier for your children, if you accept a "no" from them then and when (when its not that important- f.e. no I don't want to go to grandma today is alright, no I don't want to brush my teeth/ go to school id not) so they get confident in saying what they really want

I rarely do this. I only do it now with my car insurance because that's the only way they will finance it, and they are good about giving me several warnings before they take out the money. I'm bad about forgetting things like that, and a few times I've had companies take out the money early and blow up my account.

Or ever. Seriously, everyone is a hot mess.

For me it feels like often is said "Dear naps, sorry I was mean to you when I was young.

Honestly, the only one that scares me very much.

Got laughed at for asking about pensions when I started working. Then laughed at by financial adviser for trying to get a pension when I earned so little ( they wanted 3 times my gross pay minimum to start a scheme) Still no pension and I'm closing in on retirement age

haha Yep my parents didn't prepare me for that one either. XD

Yes to the toilet paper stock. I've run out before. >.<

But... you're a tragic sandwich...

i always wanted to be career woman when i was a little kid soooo f*****g ambitious, and finally i am a career woman at my 26 now but turns out i wanted all the wrong things to be happy. I would've prefer to get married at a young age and being deeply in love, have kids with semi-domestic life would make me happier period.

I think nobody could ever imagine that you have to be prepared for "that".

I don't get that one.

Green smoothies. lol

I've battled mental illness since I was 10. What I always heard was "don't worry, it will get better once you (fill in the blank)" Whether it was get out of middle school, graduate high school, get to college, graduate college, move out of your home town, get a job, establish a career, fall in love, etc. That's all b******t. It's never gotten better, just different

I think, if I were an Americsn cititzen I would have tried to study abroad. Thwre you still have to pay a tuition but f.e. in Austria it is (for cititzens outside the oecd) about 1600 euro a year, thats affordable.

That’s not really that hard.