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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I don't really have interests outside of my kids/family life either. I don't think it's ideal but I don't think it's a big issue either. Are you mostly happy and just have a bit of FOMO? If you are unhappy, definitely try to find some things that interest you (exercise: go to the gym and/or join a yoga class? reading: book club? outdoorsy: join a hiking club or ask friends to meet you for a hike/at a nature center. history/culture: ask friends to go to a museum or cultural events with you or hire a babysitter and go with your husband. music/performing arts: ask friends to go to a concert w you or hire a babysitter and go see some live music or a performance with your husband or just get some streaming service subscriptions and start watching some movies you can discuss) This time period where you are devoting all your time outside work to the kids will not be forever. Once your youngest is in preschool and especially once they're in elementary, they can play independently sometimes, they'll have school and activities, they likely won't need you to lie down with them to fall asleep at night, they'll have their own friends and lives outside the home so you will be able to do more.

But really just ask friends to go do stuff with you or go out and do stuff on your own sometimes and let your husband stay with the kids or hire a babysitter and you and your husband can both go out sometimes. [/quote]

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