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Want to get in the car and just drive

reisen55
reisen55
To another city, with enough money so I can set up a new life and ditch all the bastards around home that I actively hate. I have but one friend, a good one, and he is so damn disabled it is not funny. I have given up locally and know the way husbands and fathers feel when they drive to a bridge, park the car and just .............disappear somewhere else.

Serious.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have felt that way.....except I think more of like finding an island that people haven't inhabited.
ElenaNJ
ElenaNJ
hi. i used to feel like that alot when my kids were small and i had stress. just wanting to walk off into the sunset...alone.

can u move? maybe it's not such a bad idea.
AzSherryberry
AzSherryberry
I have felt that way. There wasn't hate in my home except when my daughter hated me for a couple years in her teens but there was often an enormous amount of stress. I recall driving to work and having a strong urge to take a left turn to nowhere, destination unknown. I daydreamed of dropping out of society and becoming a mountain woman living in a teepee with my dogs and horse away from everything but the woods, mountains and rivers.

Could you find a way to lighten your stress load? I hope things get better for you.

Sherry
slrow
slrow
I think that alot of us have had this notion a time or two. I sometimes just feel like if I could get away for a month and get my head staight then I would feel better. I hope that things brighten up for you but your not alone:)
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hey, Reis, I think we can ALL relate. There have been so mnay times when I just wanted to get in the car, and GO, go anywhere, it didn't matter where.

But I found, when you run from Trouble City, trouble follows....gotta get to the root of the problem. Otherwise, it's not a really well-thought-out solution....

Hugs, I so know how this is.....
deleted_user
deleted_user
I can relate thats for sure!!! Sometimes it feels easier to just want to start a new life start over......
deleted_user
deleted_user
me too :(

i wish i didnt feel that way but sometimes it sounds just so amazing
deleted_user
deleted_user
I want to do this every day and I have a family, 3 kids. I would be leaving them behind and thats the only thing that keeps me hanging on are my children.