what are you missing?

Philippines
February 5, 2010 10:00am CST
well i had been telling my husband today that i missed travelling, shopping, sitting down sipping frozen coffee in cafes. when i was still single, money was easy for me. i earned much for my needs and my work allowed me to travel and taste the good life (at least that is what most people call it). i kinda missed that. today i am just confined in our home, mostly in our bedroom. although i am a homebody, i also sometimes long for adventures. but travelling costs money and it is something that we cannot afford at this time. don't get me wrong. i am happy where i am and i am not discontented. i guess all i am saying is that well, it would be nice if we could take a vacation. well how about you? what are you missing now? i mean, like what you have done or experienced in the past that you are not having now. take care all and God bless you! happy mylotting!
10 responses
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
5 Feb 10
What you have forgotten to mention is what your husband's response was. Was it monosyllabic or did he express concern that you are feeling dissatisfied? We all wish (at times) that we could be doing something else. Sometimes it's just a silly dream - as in "Wouldn't it be nice right now to be lying on a warm, white beach sipping a Pina Colada" - and sometimes it becomes an ache: "Oh, that I was anywhere else but here!" It's really when that dream becomes an ache that we need to be watchful. I think that you have to accept that married life is different from the single, fancy-free existence ... yes, there are some things that we are bound to regret AND accept. But there were (I have no doubt) a lot of things in that care-free you before marriage that weren't perfect (otherwise, why did you get married?). I guess that there are a lot of things, too, that your husband feels he misses about being single. Many of them might involve taking a girl out; having to flirt a bit in order to feel that he 'has' her. On your side, don't you miss stringing a guy along a little? (Oh, ALL women know exactly where they have a man ... if they don't, then they aren't a woman yet!). A little play acting and pretending - in some aspects, it's called 'flirting' - should really be part of everyone's existence. If we frown and pretend we have 'grown out of it' then we are growing old before our time or simply deceiving ourselves. If you only have a two room apartment (bedroom + kitchen/living room) then that is the way it is - less to clean, for sure! But do make sure that, as far as possible, you don't feel that your 'place' is in the bedroom ... whether that's where the computer is or not! Your place is really beside your man, as his companion and not as his servant. You have a place which you accepted, it is true, and several roles in your partnership ... one of which is to make sure that your man doesn't just see marriage as a 'done deal' - gone, all the excitement; gone, all the freedom; gone, all the happy-go-lucky freedom! It's not always an easy act to pull off but, if you think of each other as equals (and you may have to work on that), then you ought to be equally respectful and equally happy. Marriage simply says that two equal people want to be together for life.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
5 Feb 10
I forgot to answer your questions, though. Dutifully, I should ... I am missing the very thing that you, probably, are missing. After 40 years of marriage, I've done the husband and father bit and neglected (without thinking about it) the 'companionship' and 'friendship' and even 'boyfriend' role. It's probably too late, now, to go back. I am stuck in an irksome (but just about workable) relationship without much hope of getting out of it. What I was and what I wanted when I was younger just don't have that much meaning any more. I have changed and my wife has changed. The children we brought up have become their own people (and I have reason to be proud of them) but they aren't - and should not be - the cement that I had thought held the relationship together!
• Philippines
6 Feb 10
oh it is never too late! good day to you and thank you for your response. about my husband, well, his response was that he felt inadequate to provide me with the tings that i used to enjoy when i was single because of his very meager allowance. but i assured him that i am happy and contented with our life together. if ever, God will just grant us the vacation we desire when our kids are bigger. :D
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
6 Feb 10
Keep your marriage 'young' (if you can ... it's not easy, especially with kids!) I am fairly sure that you will, given that you say that your husband actually talks to you (rather than just grunts when you express your feelings, LOL ).
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
6 Feb 10
I am now missing the interactions I used to have with certain people and how their company gave me so much motivation and enthusiasm . Now they are far beyond reach for various reasons, and I'm sinking... just missing them... Amazingly I don't miss my childhood though those were the most en-joyous moments days of my life.. Re-living them will somehow mar their cherish-ability it seems.
• Hong Kong
6 Feb 10
I miss my job, I lost my job recently so miss having money and being able to do thing. and i miss buying what i want. and also i miss my best friend because he die last 2006.i miss him so much....
@binagupta (627)
• India
6 Feb 10
i am really missing my best friend who was with me in my school days i really remember those days and miss alot, i wish those days should come back again and never go again from my life
@pandaeyes (2065)
6 Feb 10
I miss my son,he is away at university and it is 600 miles away so we don't see him unless it is the long holidays. I think people can be almost like a part of you, when they are absent, it is like a part of my life is missing. Cant wait for the Spring Holiday when he will be home again with his crazy chatter and bear hugs.
• India
6 Feb 10
i am missing my friend now a days becase he was my best riend and he is very not with me due to some missunder standings but i want to say sorry but i have no way to communicate with him
@donna22 (1116)
5 Feb 10
I lost my job recently so miss having money and being able to do things I enjoy like going to the cineam or to Strbucks for my coffee and muffin :)
@myramae19 (667)
• Philippines
6 Feb 10
Hi spoiled You are right, we girls always dreaming for vacation,good times together with our family. But, the sad thing is we always need to prioritize the family needs, so always run out of budget for vacation. I missed the first chapter of my life, that was 5 years ago, when I was single. I missed the things I do together with my family and friends.. We used to go to beach at least once a month, go camping on holy week, road trip on week end sometimes, eat out together, laugh with them , I can be totally who I am completely if I am with them, I missed all the good times with them. Now, I am in my second chapter of life and I am happy though feeling incomplete sometimes. I love my son so much. Happy mylotting
@Thunderll (102)
• United States
5 Feb 10
I miss the carefree life I had as a kid. My family didn't have a ton of money, but we had a little extra to do simple things we wanted every weekend. During the summer, we used to spend nearly every weekend camping. We went there so often we knew almost everyone. Many other people in our family also came to the same camping ground and we got to spend a lot of time with them. We were close. We would spend our days at the beach or out on the boat. Our nights were spent around a camp fire, telling scary stories or laughing at jokes. I made many good friends there who I have unfortunately lost touch with. I miss that. I miss having gas money to go out on the boat. I miss lazing around in the sun all day. I miss seeing the rest of my family as much as I used to. I miss my friends. I miss being a kid.
@sushie93 (1355)
• France
5 Feb 10
I'm missng when i was a children: no need to care for money, for studies (okay, i was studying but it wasn't stress like when i'm at superior studies). I'm missed when i had a bestfriend, when i had a good class, when i play at merchand when i was a kid... Rah, this discussion makes me nostalgic xD. Not good for my health, i stop here lol.