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Things in life you never thought you would recover and move on from, but you did…

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Ggll · 06/04/2025 12:34

Mine… a termination in my early thirties at five weeks. Absolutely devastated me. It genuinely felt like the world had switched its lights off and nothing would feel ok again. And to some extent it didn’t feel the same again, I was different, but I was still ok. I laughed again and was happy.

Later in life my child’s father left me while o was pregnant due to a breakdown. It was truly a horrendous time. He now sees our DD and things are very different again but at the time I did not see how I could put one foot in front of the other.

I think these things are really powerful to remember when hard times arrive.

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KimberleyClark · 06/04/2025 12:42

Not being able to have children.

cryinglaughing · 06/04/2025 12:40

Coming home and finding my fiancé in bed with a woman.
Absolutely broke me at the time, I was 27.
I bumped into him 2 years later, he was out with the girl he ended up marrying, not the one who he cheated with.
I thought I was okay that I was over him.
I wasn't, I found a job in a different part of the country and moved.
Still here nearly 30 years later.

He did contact me about 8 years ago, to ask how I was. I didn't answer and haven't heard from him since.