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.

[Strokethefurrywall]

I turned 28 and a month later I moved to the Caribbean. Been here ever since!

Came seeking adventure and the last decade has been one long wild adventure

[Strokethefurrywall]

Oh and happy birthday!!

[AlexaShutUp]

Living abroad, working in my "dream job" (which I subsequently decided I hated!). Had married dh around a year earlier. Great social life. Lots of travel. It was a good time.

[caramellia]

I love hearing different stories. When your in twenties it feels like times running out as such and need to grow up and settle down but get older and see kids in 20s as kids really so young and long long life ahead. Life is so crazy and no one knows how it will go.

[caramellia]

@AlexaShutUp I love that you got your dream job. Especially that you didn't like it because of you didn't get it it would always be crap you never got there. You will always have won life achieving your goal. Not many people realistically get that x

[DinosApple]

I was married with 2 DC aged 2&3 and a SAHM doing odd days work in our business.

I loved my 20s, I met DH at 22, married and had DC1 at 25, second DC at 27.

The DC were peak cute when I was in my 20s. But, they're lovely now and a lot less hard work!

[EasterChick98]

Got married at 28, bought a flat at 29, got pregnant at 29.

[WalkingMeAway]

I had my DD at 27 and was divorced by 30 😬 (was married at 23)

Not exactly what I had planned but I don't look back with any regret or sadness. I'm very content

I'm almost 40 now and remarried and pregnant with my 3rd DC.

[Peasbewithyou]

This is an old thread from November that has inexplicably been resurrected this morning BUT I have found it absolutely fascinating. So interesting how different people’s lives can be and how many people were doing something at 28 and now living somewhere else with someone else, doing something else.

I remember wanting to go travelling around 26/27 but DP wasn’t keen and I was worried about getting on the housing ladder and having kids and my career. I wish I had just gone!

@Strokethefurrywall I love that you moved to the Caribbean! How did that happen if you don’t mind my asking?

As for me, the year I turned 28 I bought my first property, got married and got pregnant with DC1. It was a busy 12 months!

[Peasbewithyou]

I should say, i am now late 30s. In a different property in a different part of the country with 3 kids but same DH.

[UniversitySerf]

I had just moved cities to take up a jo, I also met DH in the same dept though we didn’t start dating for a year.

[Carycy]

Was just before I got engaged. We were buying a house between us after selling ours individually, and doing it up and doing lots of city breaks and holidays. Lots of weddings.

[DipSwimSwoosh]

At 27 I met dh.
At 29 we got engaged and married.
In between we did a lot of travelling on our holidays from work. I was fit and healthy as I knew I wanted kids before long.

[BagLadyy]

They were the newborn/toddler years.

[LST]

At 29 we finally purchased our first house. We already had 2 dc. Really felt complete. I'm almost 31 now

[Hufflepuffsunite]

At 28yo DH and I bought our house and got married. At 29 I had DC1.

[Caesargeezer]

Travelled, broke up with my long term boyfriend, moved to London and got a lovely new job.

[SweetToffee]

Had 1st baby at 23, 28 was the start of 7 years of mental health issues, drinking, risk taking etc etc etc.
I now avoid stressful work environments /stressful relationships .
Would love to have been a teacher but my heart knows I’d never manage the stress and I definitely don’t want to go back to the days when I was ill.

[TurkeyTrot]

I was a year out of my PhD and just about to meet my DH

[Skyliner001]

Struggling.

10 years later, had my big break, comfortable, happy and own my house outright.

Phew.

[TownTalkJewels]

Because everyone is posting about being married & having a baby at that age...

I was a long way from that! I was living abroad, at graduate school, single, loving it. Wonderful time. Great skin, great body!! How I miss it!

I’m now having baby 1 at 35!

[Xiaoxiong]

23 - met DH
25 - got professional qualification and started working in said profession
27 - married DH
28 - DS1 born
29 - quit job to start own business
30 - DS2 born
37 - purchased first property (we always thought we'd buy in London, always priced out, but the pandemic changed where we could consider buying!)

[Sunnidayz]

I'd just returned from travelling and bought a flat. Single and no kids (and so it remained for many years, still no kids now but married).

[soughsigh]

Loving reading some of these.

At 26, I had started a new challenging job and was living in my own flat. I had finally got around to dumping my long term, long distance boyfriend and started dating my now husband. I had 2 expensive hobbies to spend my time and money on and went to the gym 3x a week. I moved in with now DH after being with him for a year.
27 Had to give up one of the expensive hobbies for health reasons, started a less expensive hobby instead. Still ran 3x a week (had to quit the gym when I moved). Went on lots of awesome holidays. We bought a house together after nearly a year living together.
28 Got married, life remained the same otherwise
29 Got pregnant, baby born 5 months before I turned 30. Put the expensive hobby on hiatus but managed to go running and to a new gym until the second trimester.

I'm now 32 and pregnant with number 2. Do the cheap(er) hobby a lot, managed the odd run and gym before I got pregnant. Hopefully will get back to the expensive hobby when baby turns 1!