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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it did not, but in a good way. My childhood was fairly screwy, very unhappy parents who lacked life skills. As a result my plans were based on avoiding their fate. I planned to be an artist and intellectual, move to NYC or similar destination, and be single, childless and cool forever, plus lots of travel, and write interesting books.

However my personality is completely different from those plans, which came as a huge surprise to me as I actually began to drive toward those goals and experienced - unhappiness and discomfort with it.

Instead of all that, I am - and I love and relish being - a wife and mom who works in an office. I love being productive, private, noisy and busy, entering into my kids interests with them, the structure and pick up/put down nature of my job, doing charitable activities and supporting community efforts, trying new recipes, getting together with coworkers or other parents - just regular stuff. Just being a regular jane turned out to be so great, I have to laugh at my younger self.

But those earlier dreams were born out of the idea that a regular life wasn't possible for me, and I am happy to be wrong and relish the day to day.[/quote]

Are you me?  Wish we knew each other.[/quote]

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