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What spontaneous thing have you done that had a big impact on your life?

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littlemissmoomoo · 26/06/2019 05:31

The day my divorce came through, I went on POF just to see what was out there. Never been one a dating site before. I clicked on one profile, thought hmm he sounds nice, sent a message and 2 days later we met up. We've been together 3 years and just had our second child together.

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giggly · 29/06/2019 00:45

Got rid of my deadbeat husband. Having a wonderful life with my 2dd doing what we want when we want. Life is great

Amibeingnaive · 29/06/2019 01:01

Shared a taxi home with a colleague I didn't really know all that well after the Christmas party.

Four months of flirting later he kissed me.

A year later we living together, engaged and expecting our first baby.

That was 10 years ago and it's still the best decision I ever made.

barryfromclareisfit · 29/06/2019 01:05

Left my job, having received one email too many. Haven’t worked since but even so, I don’t regret getting out when I did.

IWannaGotoMarz · 29/06/2019 01:19

Posted (literally, as a letter, aged 13) an ad looking for penpals on the music page of Teletext in 1999 - married now!

Whoops75 · 29/06/2019 01:21

Met a friend of a friend on a blind date, it lasted 22yrs today.

SuperMumTum · 29/06/2019 20:03

Applied for a trainee position in a career that I had never previously considered because I just needed a job. At the same time I applied for loads of other random jobs. Got an interview and 15 years later I'm still doing the same job and love it.

timeforakinderworld · 29/06/2019 20:11

Applied to study French at university and at the last minute decided to add Italian despite never having been to Italy and not knowing much about it. This led to a chain of events which ended up with me living in Italy with an Italian dh and 3 bambini!

CMOTDibbler · 29/06/2019 20:16

Stopped at my friends house when walking back from a beer festival - he was supposed to walk me all the way home but a cup of tea seemed like a good idea as it was a long walk and we were quite drunk. I didn't get home till the next day .
Married for 22 years now.

onlyhereforthefood · 29/06/2019 21:17

Accepted a date via online dating, not looking for anything serious...I was only looking to see if I could reinstate my profile after a break up, for future dating.

2 years on and we've just got engaged.

joyfullittlehippo · 29/06/2019 21:24

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neversleepagain · 29/06/2019 22:28

Moved 9 thousand miles from home to a new continent at age 21 with 2k to my name. 20 years later I am still here and very happy. Met dh and have 2 dc.

DuggeesWoggle · 29/06/2019 22:47

Quit a very boring but stable job in the civil service (very low down the food chain, poor pay but one of those 'once you're in, you're in' jobs) to go and be a long term volunteer with a conservation charity for 6 months hundreds of miles away. That got me into teaching, environmental education, rangering and... Well now I've almost come full circle and I work for my local council in a crap job but it was fun while it lasted (victim of the recession).

shitwithsugaron · 29/06/2019 22:51

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roundtable · 29/06/2019 22:59

Couldn't afford to go on holiday when I was a university student so decided to become an au pair for the holidays. Used this new thing called the internet then spoke to them on the phone. Flew out, luckily they were great. Stayed in contact ever since. Now the 'kids' babysit mine when we see them each year or so and the 7 and 8 year olds I looked after are getting married. I made another family. Very lucky.

NewMe2019 · 29/06/2019 22:59

Messaged the hot workman who had just finished a job at my house. He was replying and after hours of conversations it transpired that we liked each other. Finally gave me the push to end my dead marriage and 6 months later me and hot workman are very happy. If I hadn't had the guts to message and try and engage him, I wouldn't have seen him again. My life is completely different in a very short space of time and I couldn't be happier.

VetOnCall · 30/06/2019 04:27

@shitwithsugaron I do remember you from the dating thread, I kept reading for a while after I moved here although haven't looked at it recently. I hope all is going well for everyone!

Pandamodium · 30/06/2019 05:03

Attempted suicide.

Massive bereavement, mental health issues and massively abusive relationship.

I met now DH whilst I was sectioned it's our third wedding anniversary this month and we have a little boy together.

I really believe if it hasn't happened I wouldn't be writing this as ex-p would have killed me well before now.

This is in no way advice and clearly an extreme example

PrimeraVez · 30/06/2019 05:36

As a young fresh grad, I was offered a job in the Middle East. I accepted and me and my then-boyfriend made the move, telling everyone we were just going out there for 1-2 years to make a bit of cash and enjoy the sunshine. The plan was then to come home to the UK, get married, start a family etc...

Nine years on, the boyfriend is now my DH and we have two DC. And we have zero plans to return to the UK anytime soon.

SarahAndQuack · 30/06/2019 08:43

Not sure it counts as spontaneous, but DP and I moved in and six weeks later we had a mate round for dinner who was planning to do IVF. 'That sounds like a plan,' we said, and booked in with the clinic the next day, thinking we'd be sitting on a waiting list for years while we got used to the idea. Clinic was unusually quick and DD was conceived a few weeks later. That's as spontaneous as you can reasonably get when you have female-female biology to deal with!

Also, decided over a birthday lunch to move from one end of the country to the other, to somewhere we'd never lived before and had no family, from a city centre to a really rural village. Definitely a good decision.

Ages ago, I applied for my MA more or less in desperation to get away from a nasty abusive boyfriend, and it's the career I'm still in.

avalanching · 30/06/2019 09:15

@SarahAndQuack sorry to sound daft, did you already know you couldn't conceive naturally?

SarahAndQuack · 30/06/2019 09:29

Well, we gave it a good go, but ... That's as spontaneous as you can reasonably get when you have female-female biology to deal with.

Doyouthinktheysaurus · 30/06/2019 09:31

I applied and got in to a Uni near the sea several hours away from my miserable family home location.

Getting away from my family is the single most positive thing I have ever done and I have had a wonderful life because of it. I left my uni course, having no real idea what it was all about but stayed by the sea in my new town and now have a very successful career as a nurse.

I felt stifled by my family, my self esteem and confidence were in my boots.

That was 26 years ago😳

avalanching · 30/06/2019 09:37

@SarahAndQuack oh haha I didn't even think, I read it as you had a friend who got IVF and you liked the idea of that 😂😂 I feel like such a div! So pleased it worked out so well and quickly for you!

I've done this before, when a colleague at a new job told me about her relatively new born baby, I was surprised she was back at work already and of course it was her female partner who had carried the baby! You'd think I'd have stopped making assumptions at that point!

heidbuttsupper · 30/06/2019 09:45

Last Friday I upped sticks and moved 3 hours away from my home city. New job, new flat, new life

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