Top regrets in life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doubting Matt Gaetz.

JFC. Move on.

[Anonymous]

I regret all the time I’ve spent at work that I could be spending with my family. Work to live or live to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I regret not being fast enough to get to the living room to do something for my husband when he had a heart attack.

I am so sorry you experienced this trauma. Please know that you are not to blame.

[Anonymous]

I regret marrying my DH. I often wonder what it would be like to have had kids with someone who was happier/less anxious and angry because that has sapped the life out of me. I gave up my career to raise our children (who has similar dispositions as their father) and now I’m a shell of my former self. I do my best to find the positive every day but some days it doesn’t work.

[Anonymous]

- I regret not becoming a psychologist. My dream job is administering psychoeducational tests to children. I love kids and was a teacher for almost 20 years before pivoting to a different field because I was so burnt out from teaching. If I became a psychologist I could have built my own private practice and would still have worked with kids, but on my own terms.

- Dating the same boy through most of HS and college. Waste of 7 years!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I regret marrying my DH. I often wonder what it would be like to have had kids with someone who was happier/less anxious and angry because that has sapped the life out of me. I gave up my career to raise our children (who has similar dispositions as their father) and now I’m a shell of my former self. I do my best to find the positive every day but some days it doesn’t work.

I feel this too. Are you still married?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should have kept my maiden name.

Glad someone said this.
I hope a lot of women regret it.

I promptly switched back to mine after my divorce. I highly doubt I will marry again, but if, for some odd reason, I do, my maiden name stays put.

[Anonymous]

I feel such disgust toward women who take their husband’s surname.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel such disgust toward women who take their husband’s surname.

I feel such disgust at judgmental people who obviously cannot follow the assignment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one on here saying voting for a certain someone last week. good. All sane posters on this thread.

Except for you.

[Anonymous]

I regret my marriage. It's an odd feeling, because I simply cannot imagine my life without my daughter, so I don't not want my wife to be my wife and for us to have parented this unique and wonderful creature. My wife has gone through many bad times and is broken in many ways, and was when I married her. It's odd to feel regret and wonder and "I would do it again" all at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should have kept my maiden name.

Glad someone said this.
I hope a lot of women regret it.

I changed mine back to my maiden name after marriage! I don’t know what I was thinking taking his name - it’s so not me. We are still very much married and have kids now too.

+1 Same. It's never too late to change your name back.

[Anonymous]

Trusting my mom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- I regret not becoming a psychologist. My dream job is administering psychoeducational tests to children. I love kids and was a teacher for almost 20 years before pivoting to a different field because I was so burnt out from teaching. If I became a psychologist I could have built my own private practice and would still have worked with kids, but on my own terms.

- Dating the same boy through most of HS and college. Waste of 7 years!

There is a lot of burn-out among psychologists too. When you work with kids, especially when you're conducting evaluations, you're also working intensively with their parents and all that entails...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel such disgust toward women who take their husband’s surname.

I hope one day you see that life is not black and white. I am a proud, left leaning feminist, and I still took my husband's surname. I had my reasons for doing so, and I believe your disgust is misplaced. Focus on the real issues.