What have you done in the past 10 years?

[WellWhatsChanged]

Name changed as this is very obvious if you know me.

I saw this on twitter this evening and thought it'd be nice with one month left of the decade to have a chat about what everyone's done.

I have:
Seen my brother go to uni
Said goodbye to a beloved pet
Moved out
Wrote 2 cars off
Moved back home
Saw my brother move to London
Watched most of my closest friends have babies
Saw another one move to Australia
Got a full time job
Met the love of my life
Moved out again
Met the second love of my life
Bought a house to keep the second love (obviously my pup)
Got angry at people who didn't vote... A few times
Got a new job
Watched my parents sell my childhood home
Crashed again (4 car crashes in total)
Bought a hella cool car
Saw my brother move to New York
Cried a lot as second love needed a hip operation
Had a baby (met the 3rd love of my life)

My 20s have been rather busy 😂

Also:
Read a lot
Joined the gym (a few times)
Made some life long friends

Got sober.

The rest is just window dressing

Ooh I have
Seperated and divorced from ex husband..
Moved house.
Met and married 2nd husband.
Had 2 more sons.
My brother died.
My other twin brother married.
I learned to run and love it.
I went vegan.
Started my own business

Lost lots of weight
Got made redundant
Got a new job
Done 5 IVF cycles
Had 2 miscarriages
Had a baby
Survived horrific PND
Put lots of weight on
Realised that I’m a good parent, and a good person

Lived in 3 different parts of the country.
Got married.
Had DS.
Suffered from mild PND.
Got divorced.
Spent 4 years as a SAHM.
Went from being on benefits to a job I enjoy.
Visited 13 different countries.
Grown in self confidence.
Fell back in love with life.

Had 3 kids
Split from kids dad
Got married and now have a ss too
Got a job (got kicked out of school at 14 so this was a big deal! Even if the job is shit lol)
Moved house 8 times! The last time was 100 miles away from where I grew up. (And that's just in the last 10 years, have moved 11 times in my life)
Traveled to new countries
Gone nc with my dad
Been super proud of my big sister

Wow thinking back 10 years to when I was 21 seems like a lifetime ago but writing that out it doesn't seem a lot iyswim

I love a good list of things.

Got my A Levels
Went to university
Did a Year Abroad
Graduated with a First
Went interrailing
Was a barista
Had a couple of doomed romances
Emigrated
Did the CELTA
Started teaching abroad
Got a cat
Got pregnant
Got fired
Became an aunt
Gave birth
Baby almost died from SIDS but didn't
Had some issues with domestic violence and ended up in a refuge with baby :/
Reluctantly returned to UK
Worried about Brexit/Tory government (ongoing)
Been a single mother on benefits (ongoing)

It's been a bit of a rollercoaster ride that's for sure.

I've moved to a new country with OH
Learnt a new language
Renovated a house, still underway to be fair!
Had 3 children
Retrained in my new foreign country
Set up my own business
Lost loads of friends due to them all moving back to the Uk
Said goodbye to my lovely old woofer
Watched my sister fall in love
Gained weight and lost weight
Did a tough mudder challenge and nearly died!
Stopped eating meat!

Lived abroad for a year.
Got divorced.
Lost a job for the first and hopefully last time in my life.
Had a cancer scare and an operation
Suffered with pretty bad depression and anxiety and learned to (mostly) manage it.
Lost a lot of friends but made some in some unlikely places.
Moved house.
Got two dogs.
Seen two DD's through primary school and into secondary school.

A mixed bag and on balance it hasn't been a great ten years. Hope for better for the next ten!

Attended college and gained 2 diplomas
New job in new industry
Moved house 6 times
Made the decision to send kids in boarding school
Realised my marriage is over
Had cancer (and 'recovered)
Lost several family members
Worked abroad
Gained some fantastic friends
Lost 5 stone
Got an empty nest (kids at uni)

Milestone birthday next year. In my 30's I have

Ditched the hopeless boyfriend/toxic relationship
Had surgery for a sports injury
Quit a job and made a career change
Moved home
Met a lot of high profile people through work (brief interactions)
Had two major panic attacks
Got my 'dream' job (at the time)
Spent lots of time with my parents
Bought my first home on my own
Had some great holidays
Spent three weeks in hospital
Been diagnosed with a rare condition
Started a pension
Paid off my student loan
Helped family
Been a good friend (I hope)
Achieved a healthy diet
Got over a bout of depression
Worked out how to be happy on my own
Had some really crap sex*

*Just one wish for my 40's, more sex.

Oh wow I have done so much thinking about it I ...
Got married
Bought a house
Got a cat
Ran a business
Had a baby
Lost my remaining great grandparent and 3 grandparents.
Quit ft work and went back to retail pt.
Renovated house
Had another baby
Got divorced
Sold a house and moved to rented.
Had a second wild teenage phase.
Had an alternative style relationship.
Bought another house by myself.
Returned to full time education.
Met my dp.
Started my degree at uni.
Moved in with dp.

Oh and most recently got a puppy.

So much! I have graduated from uni, qualified as a teacher, moved house 5 times, got married, had a daughter, had depression and PTSD, given up work, watched one sister get married, watched my other sister have a baby, cut contact with one of my brothers and my dad, lost 3 stone, became a Christian. And that's only the big stuff!

Brought our first house , which is our forever home.
Gained my surf bronze , so I could be a lifeguard at the beach. This is when I turned 40 and never been on a surf board before😂
Learnt I have some wonderful friends and learnt to ask for help( after a horrible year)
Got a part time job , well I have 2 pt jobs now , after taking 8 years off after having children

You guys have done some awesome amazing things. Well done

Moved house
Had my lowest point with depression, got medication and counselling and am now in a better place mentally than I have ever been
Celebrated a lot of 30ths (my generation) and 60ths (my parents generation)
Had 2 children
Had 7 nieces and nephews
Spent a lot of time with friends and family

Returned from honeymoon
Had a couple of jobs
Two children
Moved house
Decorating
Taken up running
More decorating
Lots of decorating
Lots of MN too

Not my most dynamic decade

Not as much as you OP!

The big one for me was starting a new career in my mid forties after several years as a SAHM.

I'm 24 so my teenage years were full of partying and being a general rebellious teenager following moving to the UK at the age of 11.

Got my gcses.
Had an eating disorder for 4 years.
Got raped.
Defeated ptsd and an eating disorder.
Met my dds dad and got pregnant. did my alevels while pregnant/with a newborn.
Had my beautiful daughter.
Was in a shitty toxic relationship with dds dad for 4 years.
Had about 10 random jobs.
Moved house about 12 times? Including living in a homeless hostel.
Started my own successful business.
Been on holiday abroad twice a year for about 8 years of it.
Had lots of health problems.
Moved into my lovely home with my daughter.
Was a single mum.
Met the love of my life and met my stepkids who are now like my own.
Had lots of sex, visited lots of places and had so many random things happen!

I'm 24 and I've lived to tell the tale 🤣 and I'm so excited to see what else I get to do in life!

Love a list and love this thread. Crazy to look at the variety of things people on here have lived through.

Moved house
Changed career
Graduated 3 times
Been to the other side of the world
bought two cats
got divorced
seen two of my children go to university

I've had two more babies, I already had one ten yrs ago.
Bought a house.
Got a dog.
Lost dog.
Embarked on life changing therapy
Got our of abusive controlling family situation.
Disclosed horrific past.
Healed (healing still) from horrific past
Stopped being afraid of abuser.
Got a good job
Got a promotion.
Left job, currently sahm to baby dc3.

Life changing 10 yrs actually. I'm happy and healthy, mentally and physically now.

Adopted our son.

Obviously I've done more than that but tbh it's by far the most important and life changing!

Love this thread. I have:

Met DH
Bought my first house
Got married
Bought my forever home
Had two children
Been promoted twice
Lost my Nan
Lost my Dad
Become an auntie
Gained 5 sibling-in-laws
Travelled lots.

I'm excited for the next 10 years

Had a cancer scare
Had 2 dc
Moved (only round the corner to another housing association house though)
Got married
Had a job, changed job, worked in several places
Got into and back out of debt and slowly sinking into it again
Lost my step-dad
Coped with depression (both dh and myself)
Taken up a hobby, got quite good at it and won a few competitions with it

Great thread.
I have:
Bought first house.
Had dd1
Got married
Moved house when heavily pregnant, v stressful!
Had dd2
Had 4 different jobs
Started retraining recently
Started lots of different hobbies/activities
Put weight, lost it, and repeat.
Been on lots of holidays
Been in despair at current state of the world.

I haven't done much compared to most on here. The late 00s, especially 2008, were a period of life-changing events and since then everything has been relatively stable. So...

returned to work after being sahm
got a dog
taken my family on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the other side of the world
entered my 40s
started exercising more regularly.

Generally life is good, happy to have got through a decade without major difficulties or loss. Makes me think the next one might not be quite so stable though.