What did your life look like when you were half your current age?

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I was 16 just done my gcses about to go into six form college

I was 24, doing the long distance thing (internationally) with my first post-university serious boyfriend (who I'd known at uni but not been with). It didn't last but ended amicably and we're still in facebook contact. He was at my wedding ten years later.

I was 21 and I had a great life!!

What I wouldn’t give to go back to that point in my life.

I was 22 and a year into the worst mistake of my life; living the life of a washed up early 30 yr old, WITH a washed up early 30s yr old, instead of enjoying my 20s and the choices I had.

The pgcse I started that September gave me my ticket out. I'm actually writing this whilst in my garden, on my computer, sorting a scheme of lessons. I ditched the deadweight a year later, but I often thank my stars that I got him out of the way young.

I was 28, planning my wedding. We were living in a small flat in South London, working in media. Very active social life, still clubbing and eating out 3-4 times a week and traveling /having weekend city breaks on a whim.

I was 22 yrs old ( 2002). Married and pregnant with my first Child. Also renovating our first house!.
Never would I have thought that life would be like. So many things to be grateful for and so many regrets too ( one being getting married to now estranged Husband).

I was also 20 and on my year abroad, a most fantastic year!

I was 22, just finished uni, working in a dead end job with no idea of how build a career, living back in my home town with my boyfriend who was decent but I knew then was not the one, and honestly quite frightened of adult life. Not a time I look back on with much fondness, I was very lost.

Chaos. 25 ish and making some really bad choices. First proper job - moved quite far away from family and friends. Just found out recently that my boyfriend from back then died 3 yrs ago. Haven’t seen him for over 15 yrs but it affected me more than I expected. He was a good man - didn’t deserve to die so young. I don’t know what happened - he died in his home country and we lost touch a long time ago.

I was 19, had not long left home and moved in with my now DH. And working for the same business I work for now! (I did leave for a few years, had two children, then returned but to a different branch of the same company.)

26 living in Tokyo. Working as a TEFL. It was a rollercoaster!

That should say 'coming up to 19'.

Married for a couple of years, pregnant with DS1, working full time. Interest rates were going up and up - I think they hit 15% by the time he was born, and maternity pay was quite limited in those days. We let out a room to help meet the massive mortgage payments- over £1000 pm 33 years ago! But mostly fun times. No one we knew had any money, so there were few comparisons to upset us!

I was mid/late 20s thought I had a near perfect marriage, job was crap and something I would never go back to. Happy in lots of ways very lonely in others. Only thing I would go back to though is a second chance to be a more patient mum, I wish I had known then how much I would miss being my childs everything.

I was moved in with the now exH...and his family! I had got a job on London Underground. I still have the job on London Underground.

Snap. I was 29/30 and got involved with a nasty piece of work; due to low self esteem and zero confidence I thought I didn't deserve any better and just had to put up with it. Got out after he pushed me down the stairs; I wish Mumsnet had been around then to advise me, as my friends weren't much help.

Mostly it was going at it with my first proper boyfriend like we'd just invented sex 😆

In between that and studying, I was wafting around being slim and youthful with no idea how lucky I was. I was a lot poorer then but didn't care much.

I was 21 with a man who was crazy but luckily I ended it before I was 24. Didn’t have any kids for another 10 years. Was very different

I was 32, just about to divorce my 2nd husband who had left me for another woman. I was heartbroken. We had just lost out daughter at birth a few months before.

My Mum was to die of cancer by the end of the year as well.

The only bright light was my 13 year old DS who kept me going by just being him.

32 years later I'm remarried and celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. DS is married to a wonderful woman. They have my heavenly granddaughter and are doing so well.

Fun, carefree, blind belief in the basic goodness of people.

31 years ago! Married to a career conservationist, so living in some of the most beautiful parts of the UK. That fell apart and I met DH, military officer. Now he's disabled and I'm a full-time carer for him. Life can be utter shite.

I was living back at home after uni, nice little full time job with a new car...left the job shortly afterwards for something better paying as wanted to buy a house, didn't even consider leaving home to rent which I assume many do now...

27, just got married and bought our first house. New job, thought i was so grown up and had life planned 😆Divorced by 30.

@DramaAlpaca thanks for sharing this. I am in similar situation right now but it gets too much sometimes, but I do understand that it's going to be one of the best memories.

You couldn't have as I was still married to the biggest twat known to man😂

I was 26/7 and in my first job in London, having a whale of a time socially. I left a couple of years later and met my future dh at my next job (still in London).