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[quote=Anonymous]I think about this a lot and haven’t made peace with it. I made some (in hindsight) mistakes and decisions that took my career down a dead end, and married someone who has problems that affect my life greatly but that I couldn’t have seen before we had kids. I feel a lot of shame and have pulled away from more content and successful friends because it’s hard to sustain conversations about parts of life we used to have in common. I have a child and that gives me a small sense of peace, because I have the ability to make her life as good as possible even if mine didn’t work out as I’d hoped. On hard days, it feels very dark and I do definitely mourn my hopes for my life. Personally, it is easier for me to get through the saddest days if I acknowledge to myself my sorrow and disappointment rather than stuffing it down. On a practical level, I read a lot and try to make conversation with as many interesting people as possible- no one can live every life but experiencing others’ lives this way helps mine feel less narrow.[/quote]

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