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Your late 20s

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Christmasbiscuit · 22/11/2020 00:55

What were you doing or what do you hope to be doing?
I turned 28 yesterday and I'm just wondering really.

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DramaAlpaca · 22/11/2020 00:59

I had DS1 just after I turned 29.

Happy birthday, btw! Flowers

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Magissa · 22/11/2020 01:08

I got married at the start of my 27th year and had a baby 9 months later.
Not planned but I was very happy.

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Rae34 · 22/11/2020 01:14

Oh hey! I just turned 29. Will follow because why not.

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giantangryrooster · 22/11/2020 01:23

Roughly a month before my 29th birthday we bought our house, five days after my birthday I had my lovely ds.

Happy birthday op, we all do things differently and have different hopes and expectations Smile.

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Pipandmum · 22/11/2020 01:24

I moved to another country, worked a bit then got my masters.

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MonkeyPuddle · 22/11/2020 01:24

At 28 I was just finishing uni, getting divorced and moving counties to start my new career.
Happy birthday!

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IJumpedAboardAPirateShip · 22/11/2020 01:35

Has DC 2 at 28 and moved abroad when she was 3months old

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Hotelhelp · 22/11/2020 01:44

By 28 I already had two children in primary school and got married that year.

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lovelilies · 22/11/2020 01:46

I had a 3 year old when I was 28 and just finished my nursing degree

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IdblowJonSnow · 22/11/2020 01:55

I was travelling after a very painful breakup. It was a brilliant year where I learnt so much about life and myself.
Coming back was unbelievably shit though!

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OneKeyAtATime · 22/11/2020 02:07

Got married and managwdcto secure a good job after years of precarious fixed term contracts.

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PenguinErector · 22/11/2020 02:24

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your time and don't feel you need to compare with others.

Fwiw at 28 i got married and was very happy because DH got the snip 😁 Other than that not much really!

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ParkheadParadise · 22/11/2020 02:32

At 28 I was happily living with Dd1. She was 13 at the time.
I would go on a works night out and meet DH. Our lives changed completely after meeting him.

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HollyBollyBooBoo · 22/11/2020 02:51

Married and trying for a baby.

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FlowerTink · 22/11/2020 02:56

At 28 I had a young DD and was trying for another. We had our 2nd the year after.

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LadyJaye · 22/11/2020 02:59

Five years out of university with an MSc, just about to launch a freelance consultancy career that saw me through the next ten years or so before I went back into employment.

What exactly is it that you want to know, OP?

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monkeytennis97 · 22/11/2020 03:06

Mum to toddler, pregnant with DC2. Teaching part time.

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Finfintytint · 22/11/2020 03:15

At 27 I had DS and at 29 joined the police having left my teaching career. Now 54.

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Readandwalk · 22/11/2020 03:18

I was trying to be a lesbian. Not very good at it. Lived in a huge house share. Didn't become me until in my 30s. Did have my career sorted though.

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RedDiamond · 22/11/2020 03:18

Hey Up! I am a totally different generation to you. What was "right" for me then is not what I would want for my daughter now.

I married at 26 (after 9 years of living together), had a daughter at 28 and a second child at 31. Biologically every thing can wait so much longer nowadays. I do not want my daughter having to feel she HAS to settle for a Father for her child. It can wait.

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Christmasbiscuit · 22/11/2020 03:37

@LadyJaye

Five years out of university with an MSc, just about to launch a freelance consultancy career that saw me through the next ten years or so before I went back into employment.

What exactly is it that you want to know, OP?

Nothing in particular. Just curious!
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XDownwiththissortofthingX · 22/11/2020 03:37

I was trying to be a lesbian. Not very good at it

Grin

Like most things, you tend to get better at it the more you practice. Wink

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MerchantOfVenom · 22/11/2020 03:39

Having lots of responsibility-free fun! That’s what your 20s - early and late - are for.

You have the entire rest of your life - literally decades - for settling down and being responsible.

I got together with DH a few days after I turned 30.

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4amWitchingHour · 22/11/2020 03:50

Id just met my now DH after leaving an abusive relationship the year before, was working at an organisation I loved but in a frustratingly easy role which they wanted to keep me in with little chance of progression, and was in the process of buying a flat using shared ownership. 28 was when my life started on the track to where I am now (at 34)

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ThanksMateThanksMate · 22/11/2020 03:51

Engaged at 26. Shared a flat with bf
Turned 27 just before Millennium.
Pregnant at 27, right before getting married. Had first baby just before 28
Bought house at 28 and became pregnant again. 2nd child at 29.5.
Ffs didn't realise how much I went through at that time!!
3rd baby at 32. Separated by 36.
10'years of chaos. 3 fine humans as a result. (Since happily resettled but not remarried and no more children!)

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