What is your biggest regret???

[HoveringKestrel]

Mine is giving up gymnastics.

I can still do it here and there, but I know, with training, I could have been amazing.

What is yours?

Giving up singing. I have a strong classical voice and when I was younger it was amazing. I could have perhaps been an opera singer. Alas i was too lazy.

Not going to uni and now i cant afford to go to college whilst working part time and have a child.but in the not so far future i will.

Marrying my ex. But then I wouldn't have my kids, so it's a difficult one.

Being lazy at college at and not getting the a levels I needed to be a marine biologist. I'm a nurse now and love it, but would have preferred to work with sea mammals.

Another one for singing. I don't think I could have made a career out of it, but I do wonder what if....

Interesting most people regret what they didn't do!

A couple of stupid friendships that went sour - should've seen them coming, I was very used.

Going back to a foreign country for six months without the man I fell in love with; trusting my boss when she said my job would be there waiting for me (er, it wasn't); subsequently being poor, bored, lonely and downright miserable. Worst six months of my life. (But, reader, I married the boyfriend!)

I regret saying 'yes' to a job I know I'm going to hate which means I'm going to miss so much of DS's life for the next year, he's only 17mo

none at all. I can't regret my decisions otherwise my life wouldn't be as it is now. My mantra has always been never regret anything. Je regret rien or summit

Not having children sooner, but that's just the way it's worked out.

Having children so young. I love them but I wish I had a few more years of adulthood and a career first.

But I will have adult children before I'm 40, so swings and roundabouts

Not going to veterinary school.

Wasting my university years with an abusive tosspot boyfriend.

Getting fat! (Though I can't deny that the cakes and sweets tasted good at the time!)

But out of the three things, not being a vet is probably my biggest regret.

Je ne regretta rien.

Getting into debt. I am on top of it now, though it will take me a while to pay it all back. I will never forget that horrible sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

I don't have a credit card, overdraft or cheque book these days and that's how it will stay, never again

not getting rid of toxic friends sooner and letting them drag my confidence down

although that did contribute to me being very choosy now counts friends on fingers of one hand

Becoming a nurse
Regret contraception accident much prefer life before children
Wish I had been kinder grandchild

biggest regret would be thinking having a boyfriend was the be all and end all and not education - wish i had tried! put in effort & gone to a better uni and done a better course.
If i had done this then i would have a better job - not trapped in a career that gives me a breakdown once a year (teaching). I would have more money & everything would have lead to a better place!

However .... i start a masters in sept at a brilliant uni so i feel like i am making up for the mistakes i made.

Not applying for a year in Japan teaching English. I stayed for a friend's wedding and my partner. That partner is now my ex and the 'friend' is a knobber :(

Going off the rails just before my GCSEs. The bullying got too much, and my mental health condition (then undiagnosed) went out of control. I still did okay, but I could have easily got straight A*s.

Putting boys men before everything else from ages 16-26

i hear you ladyjadie! i was / am exactly the same and i don't know why...

Not going further with my education (to uni)
But I wouldn't change it because I wouldn't have met dh or had my dcs
And I would have still struggled with not knowing what to do.

Another here with not furthering my education. I should have gone to university. My father didn't want me to; he thought it was a waste of time, but I should have rebelled and gone, anyway. I'm having to do it now, at a much later time.