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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 3 typically developing kids and hopefully it will stay this way. Kids are 9, 7 and 4. My kids add a lot of stress to my life for sure. We are very tight financially because we chose private school, i value my alone time and with 3 kids I have very little of that.

I don’t think I have ever regretted having them, but sometimes I fantasize about running away from everyone to teach diving at a diving school in some tropical island. The thought of only having to take care of myself and living in a tropical paradise in a bikini or wetsuit all day, swimming in the water is super appealing to me.

DH knows about it and laughs. He says I would never be happy because teaching diving to a bunch of tourists would have no purpose to me.
He is right. My kids give purpose to my life. I know people find purpose in other ways, but my kids are mine. They are not everything and I enjoy my husband and my job, but without my crazy, loud, spoiled, screaming kids, I would feel utterly empty.

I think I felt this way even before having them so it’s not because I love them.
I realized that having a special need child is something I can’t relate to and perhaps I would feel differently in that case.[/quote]

This is such a dumb post from a dumb woman.[/quote]

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