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I think these two posters have hit upon it.  I don't even have a demanding job; I have chosen to downshift myself into a "mommy" type of job, but it still takes every drop of energy and then some, until I am scraping the bottom of the barrel and running on fumes, to get through my days.  The commute, the job that begins when I get home, the mental stress of trying keep a home running on top of everything else, the emotional toll of being "on" for DC and DH. . .it's all such an unbelievable, far harder than I ever expected, job.  I really feel like our society needs or maybe is in the middle of some type of paradigm shift in lifestyles.  Because I was with my parents this weekend (my mom was a SAHM), and she was like, 'Oh, you could decorate your powder room this way. . you could swap in some black towels for something diffrent. . maybe reframe this picture in a black frame. . .jazz it up a bit." And my mind was just like, "I can only deal with the basiss:  work, get my children, get them home, make sure everyone is fed, bills are paid, clothes are on people's bodies, clothes are clean, landscaping is neat but basic, husband is barely contented."  I just have to get those basics taken care of; it is a sheer luxury to me to consider something like a new color scheme in my powder room or creating a sense of community in my heighborhood.  I have truly come to think of those things as LUXURIES because, even with my life stripped down to the basics I have listed above, the lifestyle in this modern age which we (society? women? other? I?) have created, it's just unsustainable. Well, I am just rambling here, mostly because it's only Monday but I am already exhausted because I spent half the night tossing and turning in insonmia for some unknown reason, with snippets from the BBC whcih was on the radio working their way into my consciousness as I tried to sleep! AGH![/quote]

To this poster, it sounds like you REALLY need a change. Life doesn't have to be like this, even in this area. Strong communities make for happier people -- they aren't a luxury. If your job exhausts you this much, get a different one, or quit working/sell the house/move to a cheaper neighborhood, etc. Don't believe those who say modern life  just sucks like that. [/quote]

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