do you ever just dream of running away?

I actually just wanted to make a post like this.

I'm exhausted. Just exhausted. I really don't feel like I have the right to feel this way. My partner's been working around six days a week and is paying for nearly all of our expenses and has for the past couple months. As a result I've been doing the the majority of the housework, which takes a bit getting used to, but it's the best set up we got. He graduate with a geography degree nearly a year and hasn't found anything yet around the area. With this economy I really don't know where we'll end up after I graduate in May.

I just started up school again and I'm waiting around for my aid to come through and my school job to start up so I can start contributing again. With my new job I'll at least be able to pay for rent. Joy. I just feel so poorly motivated with school stuff still. But I have to push through and get the degree. I'm planning on setting time aside for a senior project I'm doing everyday, as if it's class time, otherwise I wont be able to stay on task.

I actually feel too tired right now to finish this reply... I'm gonna go rest.

I'm not feeling that way right now, but I've totally been there, when I first started being a single mom and trying to figure my life out. I was working, going to school, taking care of the kids, and keeping house, all by myself. I realized it was too much for me, and ended up dropping out of school. I don't know what the answer is for you, but I know I just had to much on my plate, and I had to change my priorities.

I think it's totally normal to feel that way, or some variation of it every once in awhile.
Personally, at least once per semester I decide I'm dropping out of school or packing up DD and taking off on a bus headed god knows where.

Like MB, I find it happens when I've bitten off more than I can chew. Can you talk to your partner and tell him how you're feeling, and that you need his support? And like come up with a bunch of practical ways to make things better. Like him doing more housework and the kids getting a chore list. If there is some way you can work some me-time in. That kind of thing.

I know this is very unbeleivable( because im a wreck sometimes) but I am the person who keeps this family running smoothly. for me to take time out is like feeding them to the wolves. the children wont get bathed and the house wont be clean and I dont think any of them will be able to handle any issues that would arise.. s.o does help but I do have a severe case of obsessive compulsive disorder. if things are not done my way then I will lose control. I have a routine with my so and my kids that works like a well oiled machine and I do beleive it may wind up causing me a mental breakdown if I do reliquensh control of that. I had today and yesterday off because my kids were off of school so that was a pretty big help. just needed to vent but thank you for all of your lovely thoughts

and not going to school isnt an option for me I still have 7 years left and if I don't go now I don't think I ever will.

I feel like that allll the time lately. im a sahm right now. dont get me wrong i choose this but its hard, i would love to get even just a part time job to be able to jst get out of the house. sometimes when i go to the store ill realize that i havent left the house other than to get ian from the bus stop in several days. i dont have many friends and dh works A LOT. its been stressful for us and im at the point now where i just might run away with my kids.

I feel the same way sometimes and I dont even have that much going on right now. I have a 4 month old son,so I still feel kind of new to being a mommy! I love it and I love my son more than anything, but sometimes it feels like it would be nice to getaway for awhile. I am having problems with my fiance, and my parents (who i live with). I just wish i could get away from them all sometimes and go somewhere just me and my little boy. But i know that right now i couldnt do this by myself. I cant even support myself and i feel so bad that my parents have to help me buy diapers and things for my son. i feel like i should be taking care of him by myself and i wish his daddy was around more. he says he wants to be but he doesnt like coming over cuz my parents give him the cold shoulder. he wants me to bring our son tohim, but i feel like he should be the onemaking more of an effort, since he wasnt around the first 2 months of our sons life. i am tired of making the effort by myself. Well i feel a littlebetter now that i got to vent lol. But yes, i wish i could just run away and not have to deal with any of this mess! thank god for my son, he is what keeps me going!

Cmarie I am glad your parents are helping you!

make sure you go over to introductions to make a post about yourself!

Welcome Cmarie! Sorry you're feeling strained sometimes. I know it can be a big relief to just get it out though.

I'm feeling like running away right now. I am in my last semester of classes, I have to work this semester because babydaddy is going into basic training and i will not get child support until he gets out, and I am baby-sitting 2 days a week. I am literally away from my son from 7a-6p most of the week and I HATE IT. The days I do not have to be gone that long I now fit in baby-sitting and field experience. I would stay at home if it just paid more. I wish I could just quit school, I don't even want to be a teacher anymore. I am hating my life right now. It doesn't help that it's the middle of winter and I have seasonal depression. I realized today that I may be slipping into it. Thanks for the forum to vent.