How stable has your life been in the last ten years?

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Since the start of 2016 I have had one year where I lived in the same house and did the same job the whole year. And that year was 2021, so, you know, not the most stable of years, globally speaking.

It’s a bit nuts, looking back. I’m knackered.

Same here.
Same house
Same job
Same husband
Same friends

That makes me sound boring, but I am also older and will be retiring next year.

Pretty stable but I am in my 50’s.

Have changed jobs twice but same house, same DH and all of that. Dses have grown, I’ve lost 4 and a half stone, most of which I gained in that 10 years🫣

My life has been very similar to 10yrs ago. We have very little change in our lives generally, we've moved 5 miles from our first house to second and 0.5 mile from second to third. I've worked in accounts since my first job in 1999 (at different companies and working up the ladder of responsibilities)
The last 10 yrs has been raising our girls and building financial stability from wiping out all our savings during DHs redundancy in 2009.

In the last 10yrs:

• I changed jobs 9.5yrs ago, my income has doubled and perks have increased since that starting wage.
• We've moved house 4yrs ago but we are here until retirement downsizing in 20 or so years.
• DH changed companies 18m ago.

❤️

Mine has been a whirlwind tbh. Broke up with my husband in 2019 and in the process lost both of my step children who I had raised for 10 years.

Plenty of jobs, house moves, family deaths, friendship fall outs, redundancy, mental health challenges, health issues but losing my step kids is the most painful. Grief is love with no where to go.

The last decade has been a nightmare for me. So many huge changes.
My best friend, my dad, my mum, my beloved horse, two dogs and my cat have died. My husband has been seriously ill four times and had several big operations. I lost my long term job during covid. Our income has halved. We have cared for my mum for years until very recently. We’ve had No holidays and not a lot of fun. But we’re a strong team and we’re still plodding onwards hoping life picks up soon!

I saw this and thought ‘It’s been fairly stable!’ but then I thought about it for 3 seconds and realised:

I moved out of my parents house and moved back in not long afterwards because we had nightmare neighbours.
Got engaged
Built our dream house
Got married
Had two more kids
Brother died

So fairly hectic actually

Moved house (work reasons).
Brexit caused redundancy (from job we bought the house for).
Varying periods of feast or famine regarding work.
Ill health (mine).
Got married.
Ill health (wife's).
Covid - caused ridiculous issues with renovating house we only bought for a job I didn't have anymore.
Retrained as work all abroad since Brexit.
Widowed.
MiL died.
Dog killed in car accident while I was out of the country.

I'd say pretty tumultuous.

Very stable in comparison to most posters.
One house move, one job change for both me and Dh, but both stable in the jobs we are in now, one close family bereavement. Ds1 has moved out to go to university, but I don’t class that as fully leaving home.