I feel stuck in life because I’m not living the life I truly want

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This may sound extremely silly in this day and age but- I have always considered myself to be more family oriented rather than career or school oriented. I’m going to be getting my masters degree next summer at 26 and as far as a career goes I have no clue what I want to do or what I’m going to do. The only thing I know I want is to have a husband and children, and to keep house. In other words, to be a housewife. If I had it my way I would have liked to be married by now with a few children of my own, but it’s taken me so long to get through school because of a few bumps in the road. I hate to sound ungrateful or anything but I never wanted to be in school, wasting my fertility years sitting at a desk, nor do I want to do that by sitting in an office. I’d rather be cooking, cleaning, and caring for my husband and children instead. It’s all I can think of and day after day I feel more frustrated because I’m not at that point yet, and I worry by the time I finish school and have a career, it will be too late for me to find a husband and have children in the timeframe I’d like. I know that wanting to be a traditional wife is looked down on these days, but I truly think for some people, it’s way more fulfilling than any career. Also, I’m often told by my family to have fun and enjoy being young, I can have a family later. But I think of it this way- you have your whole life to have “fun” but you don’t have forever to start a family. As for me, I don’t want to have fun by traveling, going out on the weekends (I already don’t do those things) and would rather have fun by devoting myself to family life instead.

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