It causes so many problems in dealing with everyday life. Each time an issue involving diapers confronts me, there's no easy route to resolve it. I hate it. Yet, the desire to be in diapers is so strong that I know in the long run that I'll end up in my diapers regardless of the problems- especially the problems dealing with other people and loved ones.
Though I have accepted that my diapers are part of who I am (post, below), this is the only part of it that is still very difficult for me.
As is the case with most of us ABDLs, I just HAVE to have my diaper time. Over the years, being able to escape the rigors of the world by spending time in my diapers has kept me sane. The more stressful life is, the more I need it. There are many stories from over the years of how, immediately following some very difficult thing in life, within days there I am, wearing my diapers. Wearing them assures me that all is going to be OK and things are back to normal. It is my "secret garden" and I get through difficult times by telling myself "once this is over, you can spend a few days wearing your diapers!"
This was easy when I was single. I never had to wait longer than the next weekend to have my diaper time. It was much the same after getting married to a girl who knew all about my diapers, accepted it, and even enjoyed participating.
Then we had kids. And once they got old enough to be aware of what was going on around them, there went my freedom to have my diaper time. To make this worse, once we had real babies in the house, my wife was changing so many of their diapers that she got tired of me wearing mine. She still understood that I needed it but had no interest in it for years.
So this led to her taking the kids off for a few days, usually to visit family members, so that I could have my diaper time. At first this happened every 4-6 weeks. But as the kids got older, it soon became once every few months. Then twice a year. Now I'm lucky if it even happens once a year.
(I'm still able to wear them to bed at night, or for a few hours here and there--but when I say "diaper time" I mean a few days of not having to hide anything. Stack the diapers up on the dresser, get out the diaper pail, wear them openly all day with no approaching deadline to have to be out of them, pile the wet ones up on the laundry room floor, be in no hurry to wash them, have no concerns about half of the house smelling like wet diapers, etc.)
And the worst part of this is, I have to always come up with a good excuse for why I'm not going with everyone else on the family vacation. It's always "well I have to do some work around the house" or something similar. But, the more this goes on, the more my kids and other relatives are starting to think that I just don't like spending time with them. It would be so nice if I could just tell them all "No I love all of you but I am in dire need of having a few days of diaper time!"
Well, I'm almost to the point of my last kid finally growing up and moving out and once that happens life will return to being much as it was before. But now that I've seen my kids grow up I look back and think about how fast the time went by. I wish that I could go back to when they were little and have more time with them at that age. Then I think about how "well, I could have had more time with them back then if not for my need to wear my diapers." It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of thing. And that's the one aspect of this that I'd change if I could.