# Share one thing that would make your life better **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289 "2002-12-03T22:13:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/41 "2002-12-04T16:49:05Z")
For my parents to get marriage counseling, so I’m not used as a stuck-in-the-middle punching bag anymore. ☹ Today has not been a good day. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/42 "2002-12-04T16:54:16Z")
All I want are reccomendations for grad school. If that’s too much to ask, enough time so I can finish writing 9 stories I’m working on and try to get them sold. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/43 "2002-12-04T16:54:34Z")
I guess I would like someone to come and work with me for a week to teach me some fool-proof toddler-friendly discipline. I don’t like how much I raise my voice, or feel impatient, or wonder if I’m ruining my son. Or, to get my sex drive back, but I don’t think that is something that someone could reasonably do for me. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/44 "2002-12-04T17:32:30Z")
**nolineage** , welcome to the boards! I have friends in real life, but none on the SDMB. I’ll be your friend! ---
**Author:** ![zimmdogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@zimmdogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimmdogg)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/45 "2002-12-04T17:43:58Z")
I’d like to have my student loans paid back. My life is actually really good - I’m getting married in July, I have some great friends who call me when they need someone [which is the sign, I’ve found, of a good one], I love my job [I teach high school math and science and LOVE my kids, all 150 of them], and I’m prolly going to have a snow day tomorrow. I just wish I could go into this marriage without the $20,000 debt. But, even that’s not vital. I can live with it, too. It’s nice to dream, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/46 "2002-12-04T18:16:06Z")
A much, much better job. Welcome, **nolineage**! ---
**Author:** ![Suspenderzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Suspenderzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suspenderzzz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/47 "2002-12-04T18:26:38Z")
The one thing that would make my life better would be some kind of guarantee that everything I have now can never be taken away from me. I currently have everything I ever wished for all my life: Good kid (well, basically good – he’s a teenager 😉 ) stimulating, well-paying job with great benefits and where I don’t have to work myself to death; cool, affordable apartment in the greatest city in the world; health; kid’s health; a few _good_ friends; and an on again/off-again boyfriend (which is just what I want; I don’t want to be tied down by a too serious relationship). You get the picture. But am I giddy with joy? Hell, no. The more things go my way, the more I’m afraid that one way or another, the things that mean so much to me will somehow be taken away. So all I want for Christmas is a GUARANTEE. Are you listening, Santa? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/48 "2002-12-04T18:28:09Z")
A new brain. With my wife leaving me and taking the kids, a crappy, dead end job, and doing poorly in school this semester, life totally sucks. Perhaps with a new brain I could understand the software I’m supposed to be learning, and I wouldn’t hate life and get depressed every time things go other than how I want them to. …if I only had a brain… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/49 "2002-12-04T18:38:12Z")
Not for me, but a new set of vertebrae for Ivylad would be very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/50 "2002-12-04T18:38:27Z")
All encompassing power over every being in the universe. I already have a dog. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/51 "2002-12-04T18:40:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by VenusProbe \* > \*\*A wife with a sex drive. \*\* Ouch! I hope you’re not married, because that’s a whole 'nuther can of worms. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/52 "2002-12-04T18:48:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*Ouch! I hope you’re not married, because that’s a whole 'nuther can of worms. \*\* Afraid I am, but who know for how much longer if things remain as they are. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/53 "2002-12-04T18:54:15Z")
For Mr. Pol to have his health back - he’s not dealing well with being type II diabetic. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/54 "2002-12-04T19:01:59Z")
**Cranky** from what I’ve been learning the only way to not yell all the time, paddle, and have every third word out of your mouth be NO!!! is to have a quiet child. My 2 year old is uncontrolable and he likes knives (of which I have a lot and they’re kept in childproof drawers, but he’s figured out how to work the childproofing.) He completely ignores me like I hadn’t even spoken. One of my friends has a 20 month old who cries if she uses a firm tone and never repeats the act that brought the tone into her voice. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/55 "2002-12-04T19:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MaxTheVool \* > \*\*The magical ability to fall asleep however late I fall asleep, wake up when my alarm clock rings, and yet always be totally fully blisfully well rested. > > Plus a holodeck. \*\* What he said! What he said! Those are what I want, too! Plus an immediate decriminalization of marijuana, and the release from prison of anyone who is there solely for possession and/or sale of same. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/56 "2002-12-04T19:42:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by VenusProbe \* > \*\*Afraid I am, but who know for how much longer if things remain as they are. ☹ \*\* Okay, I won’t pry, except to ask if you and she have been to counseling and if she has been to a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/57 "2002-12-04T19:57:59Z")
A transporter. I hate travelling in this bloody country because it takes an eternity to get from point A to point B. More realistically, I need more bookshelves. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/58 "2002-12-04T20:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*Okay, I won’t pry, except to ask if you and she have been to counseling and if she has been to a doctor. \*\* yep, 3 years and over $6000 worth together and individually with 2 different counslers and group. She won’t see a medical doctor, in her mind there is nothing wrong. I’m done, No more please it just makes me angry. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/59 "2002-12-04T21:41:22Z")
A divorce would make my life so much better… but how can you divorce somone who is terminally ill? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289/60 "2002-12-04T21:55:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by VenusProbe \* > \*\* > I’m done, No more please it just makes me angry. \*\* Understood, **VenusProbe**. I wish you good luck in finding happiness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-one-thing-that-would-make-your-life-better/140289.md?page=4)