I feel like I don’t know what in my life makes me happy anymore. I have a beautiful family I am in my 30’s but just feel like I have lost any form of true happiness. I adore my husband and children but I feel like I need more. I miss the person I used to be...carefree and just enjoying the little things. The little things now I don’t enjoy, everything feels like a chore. am I having a midlife crisis? I’ve been told to find a hobby something I don’t have.... and I just don’t know where to start. Exercise is not my thing. I don’t even really know what I am asking.
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Do you work? Or study? Do you have friends to socialise with? I can relate to what you’re saying when I was a SAHM. I felt lost and lonely then I got a job and reconnected with friends and my life felt like it had meaning and purpose again. I love my children and family for sure but I needed something more for me.
So, you're a blank slate. Try them ALL!
Drawing, painting, photography, dance, gymnastics, martial arts, writing, travelling, crafts... the list of options is endless.
I like photography and travelling most.
I could have wrote this!!! I went back to uni. Studied primary school teaching!! It was hard and there was a lot of blood sweat and tears…. But it saved me. It gave me something outside of being a wife and mother. It took me 5 years to get through because I had a baby in the middle!
I’m now 37, have my degree and am in my second year of teaching. I’m earning more than was ever possible without my degree and most of the time I love my job! I still love that I took the risk on myself.
Go and study!! Find your purpose! It’s okay to have a life outside of being a wife and mother! Good luck!