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Sunday, 26 October 2025 - 16:54
Does anyone else feel like this?? Life was pretty good until I turned 47 recently. Guess I going through Perimenopause,(doctors tell me, because I have the marina they can't tell me if I'm really going through it). Basically told me to take some tablets and come back and see them in three months...
Friday, 22 August 2025 - 20:58
Does anyone else have days where they get stuck on thinking about something your SO did to hurt you/make you upset in the past and you just get super quiet and hardly talk. Then he keeps asking you what’s wrong over and over and you just keep saying nothing because you don’t want to start an...
Friday, 1 August 2025 - 23:01
I found out that he’s been cheating our entire relationship. Years and years together and kids. All different women. I’m completely and entirely destroyed. I built my life with this man. I loved him with everything I had, and he never even liked me. I don’t want to be here anymore. I fear I’m...
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Submitted by Anon Imperfect Mum on Sat, 14/09/2013 - 19:01.
This is a FAQ post. These are the most popular answers to a real question asked on The Imperfect Mum. A bit of a hard question to put into words. Lately I’m feeling like i’m now just “his wife” and “her mother” – I’m feeling like I’ve lost who I used to be. I used to be a fairly social independant woman and now I feel as though I have somehow been robbed of my independance. I have an 8 month old...
Submitted by Kelly De Vries on Fri, 30/08/2013 - 13:27.
Sometimes we mums are our own worst enemy… I’m beating myself up at the moment, without any help from anyone else! (So talented right?) *rolls eyes* I was catching up with a couple of beautiful mums this morning – we had a bunch of kids between us all who were happily playing in the playground while we spoke. One of the children came up to her mum, with the usual “I’m hungry” complaint, and the...
Submitted by The Imperfect Mum on Wed, 28/08/2013 - 15:20.
There has been many discussions on I.M about beauty, women feeling like they are not beautiful. Women feeling like they’re not enough. And, this worries me. So, what makes you beautiful? Aesthetically you may rate as as 4 or a 10? Who knows? And yes I would be lying if I said that aesthetics don’t come into play. They do. However, I have seen really aesthetically pleasing people that are just not...