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.

Don't remember much of it as i was in an exhausted stupor with twins that didn't sleep (one in particular) and a very difficult ND child. I also realised I was running out of time on a qualification I had half completed so had to do that before the deadline, using every moment possible, literally zero down time. I also was stressed because we had been outbidded multiple times on a house and was trying to resign myself to a lifetime of raising 3 kids in a tiny terraced house. It was a stressful blurry year. Life is a billion times easier now, although I look significantly worse.

Very up and down really. I was only 20 when 2015 started, and I started it living with my emotionally and physically abusive ex, both drinking too much and generally losing any sparkle I may once have had. We split around October iirc, and I immediately started going out with my friends again, picked up previous hobbies and generally having quite a good time all round… including shagging my much older boss in a sort of fwb situation. I started that job in the April of 2015 I think, bloody loved it there, stayed 4.5 years. Like I say, a mixed bag!
Amazingly (as in, I can’t believe it’s been 9 years already!) I met my now-husband the following spring. Time flies 😅

As far as I remember.... Work was OK, I had settled in to a newish job but was having problems with a senior colleague who was a bully. Home life was good, we had moved in to our house at Christmas 2012 and it was more or less how we wanted it at the time. Love life was good, we had decided to get married (after 9 years) but were keeping our engagement quiet as my sister had also got engaged just before us. My mother died in 2016 so 2015 was our last full year with her. She died of cancer but none of us were aware she had it in 2015.

Apart from work - all was good!

January our 17 year old dog had to be PTS. Same month my oldest DD cat also 17, PTS it was just her and her cat she was devastated. She had him cremated. I bought her a white rose to put in a planter with his ashes, and knitted her an identical cat. Not a great start.

I think things still seemed ok in 2015, our country still felt like it worked.

Nigel Farage didn't get hold of my parents until late that year and turn them into crazy people ranting about this was our only chance to get Brexit but not having any reasons why we should apart from "stopping immigration" which is a) neither possible nor desirable and b) would obviously increase after Brexit.

Joe Rogan hadn't got hold of my brothers in laws and nephews yet so family events weren't yet a bingo card of obviously bullshit far right conspiracy theories and fascism, which we now have to call"concerned citizens".

I sometimes think of 2015 as "The Last Good Year"

I know that sounds melodramatic but every year since seems to have been worse than the last.

I mean it could be worse, it could be my kids and husband docilely repeating the talking points they've been taught like good little weak-minded dupes.

It was good. I was thin & fit. Went on a fabulous holiday and several other good trips. My kids were happy & settled. My nasty ex had moved abroad for a bit so was out of my hair. It's quite interesting to look back and remember that. Things started to go wrong in 2020 - pandemic & they've never really picked up since tbh.

Awful. The year I lost my lovely Mum. Life has not been the same since sadly.