If you could relive 5 years of your life

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Which ones would you choose?
I am struggling with the idea of the baby days ending as my youngest turns 2. I also have a 5 and a 4 year old. I would do the last 5 years on repeat if I could!
I'd also love the relive my uni days. What do you think?

Oh Squirrels, that's so deeply sad. What a short time you had together.

Ages approx 7-12. I had a lovely childhood and would love it again. Or, ages 27-32, before we had the children & it was just us. I'd love to go back and do the time from becoming pregnant with ds1 & his 1st birthday again. Maybe 16-18 when I was at 6th form college.

The 5 years I spent in a failing marriage and going through the world's worst divorce. I would have done so much differently and I'm still so angry with myself for how I was. Oh to go back and be the woman I thought I would be, rather than the pathetic doormat I became for that period.

I'd probably relive the last five but do a lot of things differently with the benefit of hindsight. Like not eat so bloody much, not stress out so much and just enjoy it all a lot more.

None actually. Not because I've had a bad life but because it's been hard work. I didn't go to university, I became a single mother very young so I've not really had any "young carefree" days. DS is 6 and I prefer the age he is now to the baby and toddler years, plus I was on benefits then so we struggled with money, it wasn't a fun time.

I turn 29 this year and the way things have gone over the past couple of years I feel that the best years of my life are yet to come and I'm looking forward to those.

The last five, definitely. Got together with DH, got engaged, married, moved countries, bought a house, had a baby. Some of those things were already perfect so I'd just like to experience them again. Some of them were hard (I'd have to relive PND and miscarrying our first) but I'd like to go through them again with the benefit of hindsight. This last year has been the happiest of my life though and I think it will get better so I might wait another five years before answering!

My university years... They were bloody great but with hindsight I stressed too much and didn't make enough of the, ahem, opportunities available to me.

The five years before I met DH.

Oh that’s tricky.

Maybe 19 to 23. Or maybe 22 to 26. Or maybe 26 to 31.

Basically any time since I was 19 really!

I wouldn’t change anything in those years - I’d just be a passenger enjoying them again

28 till 33
Still had DD and DM in my life. Looking back it was the happiest time. Could never imagine the heartbreak that was to come.

18-23 I’d go off to uni and get my degree instead of juggling one now in my 40s. I would have felt more independent and sure of myself and not married the person I did and avoided wasting my 20s having fun and travelling instead

Probably 25 to 30 - meeting my dh getting married and being all excited to be together as it was new and magic. I miss the magic days.

I would want to go back to when I was 14. I'd do different o levels, which would change my whole future. I'd get to uni instead of being stuck with my ex for 30 years.