How was the year 2015 for you?

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Just thinking about how things have changed in 10 years.

How was 2015 for you? For me it was a horrible year and my MH was in the tank. But gratefully from 2017 onwards things got a lot better.

I had dc1 so it was largely awful. 2016 was better!

A proud one! Got engaged to DH, DD did fantastically in her 11 plus which meant that she got into the grammar school I’d always dreamt of. She was really happy there and it was all a huge sense of relief.

10 years on life couldn’t be more different! DH is now my ex and DD is still in therapy because of that school..

The last good year for about a decade. I wish I’d revelled in it a bit more - and definitely wish I’d put more in the savings account!)

Everything after that went downhill pretty steeply. 2019 to 2021 was probably the nadir, although it’s hard to pick.

2024 has been challenging at times but definitely a year l of improvements and progress. Not fun, but productive.

Sorry to hear about your ex and what happened to DD. Bullying is rife even in grammar schools. I hope things get better for her

I'd been married to the love of my life for 3 years and I started working as a self employed artist in Jan 2015. Life was great! I've been on a massive roller coaster since then including losing the love of my life to ovarian cancer in 2020. I learned that grief can make you feel utterly broken and crazy. I've learned that big love equals big pain. I've also learned that life has to be lived and savoured in the moment. Lived with, wherever possible, an open heart mind and soul. Good coffee is a big help😀

I'm so glad to hear your MH improved after 2015!!

The year I got married! I loved it and had the best honeymoon in Lake Como! Take me back!!

How lovely!

It wasnt my mental health, newborns are just the WORST.

I remember it with a fond sense of nostalgia.

I still had both my parents living.

I think I had more hope back then .

It was largely a good year for me. Started off with shingles in the January but in the May I got pregnant with DS and really enjoyed the rest of the year :) Financially was much worse off than now and was renting (bought in 2017) but I enjoyed pregnancy once the exhaustion of the first trimester wore off.

I moved into my first flat

I don't really remember anything else

Sorry, I replied to the wrong post!

I'm afraid I'm going to take the tone down a notch here - 2015 was a horrific year for me. First full year living abroad, which in theory should be amazing, but also was the same year we lost my sibling 😥that flight home was a blur.

Quite peaceful as far as I recall.

Eldest had gone to uni, so less arguments between her and her sibling. My parents were both still in good health which all went pear shaped in 2019.…

Revolutionary! I started 2015 thinking about turning 40 the following year and realising I might need to make some changes.

A few weeks later I found out I was pregnant after 5 years of ttc so spent most of it feeling sick and worried then the last few weeks were very tiring and overwhelming.

I look back at it with fondness now though.

Not great as my DM was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in December 2014 and spent 2015 having chemo, surgery and scans. Thankfully, she’s still with us now.

It’s my DF who isn’t doing so well this year. I know that we’re all moving towards the same ending, and I wish I could worry less and enjoy the present more.

Nothing major I don’t think though I’d have to check my diary! I can’t remember what I did ten days ago never mind ten years 😅

For the first 10 months, I was ecstatically happy as I'd met someone I really liked and genuinely thought he could be the one. By the 11th month I was humbled when he ditched me for somebody else 🤣

However unbeknownst to me I actually HAD met the one (now DH), who was just a colleague at the time until we went on to date in 2016.

Other than that, I was young, healthy, slim and had no responsibilities so it was pretty great!

Not too bad actually I think. I was working, had plenty of friends. I was a lot happier and healthier than I am now. I don't remember anything bad happening. I think I got mortally rat arsed at a client facing works do. Which was caught on camera for the world to see. I remember people laughing about it mainly. Selective memory perhaps?

Mental health was ok for majority of if 15 apart from grief ,
had two year old so I was fat and knackered
had lots if money ( due to loss)
in love and could afford some treats

now two challenging sen kids
still in love
super skint
bit trimmer due to cost of food 😄

First half was great - for the first time in my life I had the resources/self-worth to plan a future where I wasn't just an extra in everyone else's life. All went spectacularly tits up obvs.

In January, one of my parents received a cancer diagnosis, I was with them at the consultation. They were dead by the end of May. It wasn't a great year.

It did however, make me focus on my own life. Ten years later, things are totally different for me.

It's not a year of signicant memories for me but I can work out that my mil, bil and mum were still with us. My youngest was still in primary school and there were no big concerns about her (has since had significant struggles with mental health and became very disillusioned with education during the pandemic) but eldest was struggling at secondary and playing up a lot, had to move schools and was causing lots of concerns (much improved now as a young adult).

I started online dating 2015 so had tons of fun meeting men (sometimes frustrating as none of them was that someone I wanted to build relationship with). It was like a second job, sometimes meeting 2 men during the same day. 🤣