Your late 20s

[Christmasbiscuit]

What were you doing or what do you hope to be doing?
I turned 28 yesterday and I'm just wondering really.

[ChristmasArmadillo]

I’m in my late 20s I guess - shocking, I think of myself as early/mid still! I’ve been married for all of my 20s and have 4 DC, a house etc, the usual settled down accoutrements.

[whatswithtodaytoday]

I'm amazed how many people were married with children in their late 20s! I only went to one wedding before I was 32 (when I went to five in one year).

I was busy working hard at my career and had just moved in with my partner. We traveled a lot and enjoyed the freedom and disposable income.

[McRibpain]

Backpacking round the world. Best time ever!

[Aria2015]

I got married at 28. Aside from that I was working, enjoying time with friends and trying to go on as many holidays as I could! Didn't have dc until 33 so managed to squeeze in quite a few! Lovely memories!

[Pyewhacket]

I was married with three kids, sterilized ( had to go abroad for that ) and back at work full time.

[Pyewhacket]

Altho before that I'd lived in Southern France as a tweenager so I was fluent and literate in French. Moved back to the UK and lived with my Grandparents on their farm in Dorset until I went to University to train as a midwife. Had a number or relationships at Uni ( one with another woman ) met my husband and got married shortly after graduating where upon we both worked abroad to earn the money to buy the house we now live in outright. Houses were a lot cheaper 20 years ago . I seemed to get pregnant ( which I hated ) at a drop of a hat so I got sterilized.

[Dinosauraddict]

Happy birthday OP. I'm late twenties and am married, had DS earlier this year, have a house and 3 Ddogs. Got a good career which I do FT with flexible working and it pays well. Haven't quite yet finished paying off the student loan though!

[thaegumathteth]

I was sahm to ds born when I was 25. Pregnant at 28/29 with dd. Dh worked shifts, owned own home and tbh that's it really.

[RLGGG]

Met my future husband :) after years of partying and travelling and reluctantly brought a house by myself. Didn't get married for another 3 years, first baby 4 years later. I loved my 29th year :)

[Waxonwaxoff0]

I've just turned 30. I was a mum by age 22 and divorced by age 23.

26 - DS started school and I went back to work after 4 years on benefits. The job was shit but it was a job and I was so happy to be earning again.
27-28 - had enough money to start going on some lovely holidays again. I got a better job that I love.
29 - bought my first house. We were living in a rented flat prior to that. We moved in 2 months before I turned 30.

[niceupthedance]

Had just had an 8 month breakdown where I didn't leave my flat share bedroom. No kids no partner and had left my career with no idea what to do next. Dark times

[vampirethriller]

Aged 28 I was in a mental unit for Xmas then a refuge, then homeless for most of 29-31. I'd been living with a man who had forced me into prostitution and tried to kill me when I tried to get away.
My 30s have been a lot better!

[Binnie0309]

I'm in my late twenties now. Had a really rough start to my twenties- emotionally abusive relationship and then the breakdown, single motherhood and the loss abs bereavement of someone massively important in my life.

My mid and late twenties have been spent recovering from this and building myself back up. So I got myself a stable career that I'm doing well in, have enjoyed raising a wonderful little human and bought (and nearly sold!) my first house.

I'm so looking forward to my thirties!! I'm going to have a proper rest and go on lots of holidays

[Gooseybby]

I was finding out that getting my dream was more of a nightmare, but living in denial and trying to hold everything together, working myself into complete exhaustion.

I'm glad i let that 'dream' go.

[PolarnOPirate]

Happy birthday! I turned 31 this week, so 28 is the recent past for me. When I turned 28 I had a 10 week old and a 2.5 year old.

That following year, I wish I had taken the steps I am taking now - looking after my mental health, looking after my body. Since turning 30 I have had a few spates of therapy, am seeing a dietician, about to be prescribed some anxiety medication hopefully. Basically I wish I hadn't let things get to this point, as I would have had more mental energy to get on with life and pursue more productive things if I had nipped my health issues in the bud earlier.

Other aspects of life, at 28 I had been married 5 years, we were on our second property (now in our 3rd). We were debating whether to have baby number 3 (still are, we're getting to a decision). Baby number 2's life whizzed by and is much less vivid that DS1's so that's a bit sad but that's life. Husband was working abroad a lot that year so I was often a tad lonely but overall it was fun. I remember it always being sunny so that's a good sign!

[PolarnOPirate]

*Not a 10 week old! A 10 DAY old!

[PolarnOPirate]

Me and DH did travelling and having fun in our early 20s, we were just married at the time We used to do 3 or 4 'date'-type things in one weekend, it was awesome. Wen't on loads of holidays. We've travelled a lot with the kids too, and I travelled on my own aged 19. Didn't see the point in delaying getting married if we knew we wanted to ultimately. It's not as if those who have kids in their 20s have only done that. Life takes different paths for all :)

[InMyOwnParticularIdiom]

At 28, career-wise I was doing well, I got promoted from admin to manager level in my field. I'd split up from a long-term boyfriend the year before and so was enjoying my freedom so to speak with a fair few casual flings I lived in a rented studio flat which was colder than an igloo in winter. My diet consisted largely of pasta as the flat only had a hob, no oven. Basically I was fairly footloose and fancy free at 28.

I got together with my now DP aged 31, we bought a house at 33 and had DD when I was 34.

[Highfalutinlootin]

Had just moved back from years abroad, broken up with boyfriend of 4 years, moved to a new city, went back to school to retrain in a different career, lived alone for the first time.

[Highfalutinlootin]

Oh and met my now husband. :)

[GeorgiaMcGraw]

Married, decent enough job, have bought a house we love but needs lots of work. Building granny annexe for dm, and dh and I are ttc. I've started writing fiction as a hobby but would love to do it professionally one day. Aiming to be a sahm when we have dc, and would write as well. Was never one for partying or lots of travel, I'm a homebody, happy in the countryside.

[Manteo]

Between 26 and 30 I started a new job, passed my driving test, bought a house, got engaged, got married and had a baby.

[PaperMonster]

Divorced, with a new man, going to night school to get my degree level then post grad quals. Met the man who has remained the love of my life despite us not being together!

[VickyLouT]

In my 28th year I got over a break up with a long term boyfriend I thought I was going to marry. I rented my own flat and focussed on what made me happy. Became an Acting CEO of the company I worked in. By 30, I met my future husband, had my son at 33. Married at 34. Started my own company at 37.

[Respectabitch]

Was married, building my career in a job I loved (at the time) and studying my MSc part time. When I was 29 DH and I quit our jobs and went travelling together. I finished my master's thesis in a hostel and saw my 30th birthday in flying round Everest.