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

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Just started uni at the time.

Just about to get married.

Oooh good question
I was 25 so had a four year old and a 6 month old and was on a year travelling in Europe and North Africa with partner and our kids.
we’d sold our house - I remember saying I can’t see the value going any higher than £70k anyway….
lovely times.

I was in sixth form, depressed, suicidal, failing because I was depressed which made me more depressed.
If only I could have seen me at double my age back then.

Graduated a couple of years ago, married, expecting second DC and just moved into my second house.

Getting married in a few months

A big holiday to look forward to

Size 10 😫

Didn't have long left with my dad

18 and just started uni. Had a very controlling boyfriend who didn't let me go out so I wasn't able to experience the usual first year at uni like most. So glad I saw the light, albeit not for another year.

25 years old, no kids but had met DH, at law school, applying for lots of training contracts and going for interviews, still renting and hadn't bought a house yet. A nice time of great fun, hope and optimism. Halcyon days prior to 9/11.

I had three children under 4.

My life was immeasurably different when I was 19. I had just started uni, was in a new relationship with the man I would eventually marry, confidence was at an all time low, sheltered, inexperienced and on an emotional rollecoaster. I wouldn't want to go back there but if I could, knowing what know now, things would be very different.

I had just qualified as a nurse. I was absolutely living my best life. I stayed in my uni city and had loads of great friends, we’d meet in the pub with our paper diaries and would book in time on our days off to meet up. We spent all our time in the pub, at gigs and generally having fun. My now husband was doing his PHD in a nearby city and he’d come and stay in my flat a couple of times a week. It was a really carefree time and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

It was 1999, I was 27 and buying my first house, a tiny 3 bed cottage for £42500. I went to Ibiza for one last holiday before becoming a house owner with no money.

It was the year of the Millennium, still several months away but being hyped all the time.

I was single although I did meet somebody by the end of the year.

27 years later I have been married (to someone else that I met when I was 30), divorced and have a DD about to turn 18.

i was working in politics - Blair had just been elected - it was all very glamorous and exciting

just started dating my DH

just bought my first flat

child free holidays to the Caribbean

good times

Early 20s, single mum to a toddler. Depressed, undiagnosed-all-sorts-of-things going on. On benefits. No hope. While there are things I’d like to go back and do better, you couldn’t actually pay me to go back to that. Soul destroying.
Things took a turn for the better about six years later. And things have improved slowly since then. But life has really only just become really good, I could never have imagined it would be like it is now. It’s taken a really long time to get to this place.
It just goes to show that there is always a way through. Eventually.

It was 1998 i was 28 and i had just had my 3rd DC. I was still married to first husband and still living in London. Mortgage on first house, not happy with marriage but loving being a mum.

28 years later i'm living in the countryside with DH no2 and a fourth DC and MUCH happier 😊

Your timeline is v similar to mine!

And my first mortgage was 50k for a 3 bedroom in West London !

Id just met the man who would end up my husband. First year of uni, size 10, free and happy as anything

I was 32 desperate for a baby after 2 miscarriages and very unhappy.
Being investigated for infertility and so desperate to have a baby. It was the worst time if my life .

Just about to do my GCSEs, firmly distracted by my first proper boyfriend who id been with probably a year by that point and who was about to move a couple of hours away for uni.

Just started sixth form, loving my studies, having an absolute ball with my friends, had fantastic hobbies. If only I could go back..

I had three children under four and was about to be pregnant with my fourth, married, exhausted and shortly to be moved away from friends. family and entire support network because then-husband found a job 350 miles away.

I would not go back to 33 if you paid me millions.

I was 25, single, didn't want kids, had a great social life, own house and business.

I now have two kids who I adore, am married and still have the same business.
I love my life just as much now as I did then even though it's very different.

At university, madly in love, happy. But also with hindsight lacking in confidence and wrapped up too much in a selfish man who would hurt me very much within a year.

24. Was about to get married in the summer. First of our friends to do so. Everything was pretty perfect, or as perfect as anything ever gets! could eat and drink a obscene amount and still a size 8…not the case these days! went out several nights a week, and every Friday/Saturday night without fail. (Sundays spent nursing a hangover.) lots of holidays, our business going reasonably well. it really was an amazing time, would go back and do it again in a heartbeat. Not that I’m not happy now, but it was nice to be able to get up in the morning with no aches and pains, my eyes worked perfectly and could happily stay awake beyond midnight! We have an evening wedding celebration coming up 8pm - 3am DH and I both equally horrified🤣

I had just finished grad school and moved across the country.

I was 18

I had bought a flat (100 percent mortgage) on my office receptionist salary.

Zero qualifications at the time.

I had bought a Staffordshire bullterrier as
a puppy. She lived until she was 16.

I was out drinking every weekend, having fun,
partying with my husband who was my BF at the time. At 18 I went to Malia and Zante.

I was blonde, tanned and chavvy 😂. Miss those days.