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

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Just started uni at the time.

Utter shit. I'd just been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis,had had to leave my job because of it as I couldn't cope any more. My marriage had just broken down because of my illness and lovely exH-to-be had buggered off leaving me with a mountain of debts in his name. So,1994 was not a good year for me. Thankfully things are a lot better now!

It’s the new millennium, I’m in my 20s and living my best life. I live with friends but am about to buy a property. I don’t love my job but it’s easy, convenient and it pays well. I’ve recently broken up with a boyfriend after two years together (joint decision, amicable) but we’re still shagging regularly and it’s still great. I’m out all the time pubbing and clubbing and being spontaneous and having fun. I’m about to book a big holiday with my bestie to visit some other mates there.

These were definitely my most hedonistic years, I didn’t have a care in the world. I really miss that girl.

29, single after a bad break up.

I thought I had met the one.
I hadn’t obviously and have never been in love since. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.

I'll have been 24
Engaged to now DH, just bought our house and just before we got married and then had the kids 🙂
Weekends will have been out in the pub.

I was busy looking after my beautiful DD who was 15 months old. She is 34 now and is my best friend. I would be lost without her.

Living in a shared house in London after uni, having a fantastic time. 1997 was fun.

Glamorous. Lots of eating out, living in London, friends, French boyfriend, living the life.

Then it went very domestic, and I had my beautiful girls. No regrets there either.

Now it's getting more glamorous again, we eat out a lot, anyway.

Twice the age, twice the size!

I was living in a flat I’d bought with my husband of a couple of years, working long hours in a fantastic job. I was looking forward to a life together, was a bit concerned that we didn’t have the kind of relationship where we could talk for hours, but I was pleased I’d got off to a good start.

within 2 years we split up, I’d met someone new and would be pregnant fairly soon after, the first of three with my second husband who I’m very happily still married to.

Half my current age would make me 21! We had just bought our first (and current!) home and was about to get married! Still married and paid our mortgage off 4 years ago! I made good decisions at 21!

19, was living on my own for a year at this point, working full time and was with a boyfriend who I really didn't like but was struggling to get rid of. My best friend lived a short walk away and we were always hanging out. Lots of nights out drinking too in the town.

I was married with a baby. We lived in a 2 bedroomed terrace house. When we moved in it didn’t have central heating or double glazing. We had both put in before baby was born.
I was working full time with a good career. No option to go part time then.

Lived with my best mate, was a nursery nurse on very crappy money so we didn’t really have lots of money. But had a ball for a few years with cheap nights out, gigs and festivals. (They were cheaper back then! plus credit…🙈)
Had just had my first long haul holiday to NYC and was saving and planning to go travelling. Budget travel was so much cheaper in the early 2000s..

miserable. I would never go back to my twenties. I have loved my 40s best part of my life so far.

Young children and a part time job, never any money, dire really. So much time being broke and worrying about it I didn't really enjoy those years with little ones. Now they are adults, the situation is so different with more money, more holidays and more fun.

I had one young child and was pregnant with my second. We lived in a small house and we were completely broke, but happy.

Now my DDs are adults and live independently, we are retired and live in a beautiful big house. Still happy.

I was 27, about to get married and pregnant with my first child. Absolute happiest time of my life.

1997 - I was nearly 29. Had not long bought a detached house for 50k with my DP at the time and was studying for professional qualifications. Was doing really well at work but no dc then, so lots of travel, gigs and nights out. We are in process of moving back to our home town after many years abroad and dd has flown the nest so actually I think the next few years will be pretty similar.

I was madly in love with someone who seemed to be the perfect boyfriend who turned out to be every horrible cliche in the book. I was lazy and work shy and flitted between entry level jobs and being honest, I cba with anything that wasn’t immediate fun or enjoyment or required effort. I did no housework for my parents, slept for England and I was at max overdraft and at least 3 stone overweight. I think a lot of people I met later in life would be surprised at my sheer laziness and lack of motivation to improve anything in my life (and I’d be embarrassed 😂).

I had 2 children and a husband who loved to stray, a lifetime later have a lovely husband who I met at 27, 3 grandchildren and a home by the sea, straying husband had left for his latest fling and never saw the kids again, gutting at the time but now they both agree they did very well with stepdad. Used to work in pubs and clubs, now own our own.

I was 29 just moved into our 4 bed detached £56.000 home from a tiny flat we had with no equity and had been on the market for 3 years. Exciting new job with company car and the prospect after 7 years of marriage we could start a family. Very very happy times and here I am in the same house with the same man and 2 grown up children. I count myself as very lucky.

Just taken on a large mortgage and was renovating a house. Got made redundant the day I returned from maternity leave. Car stolen right in front of me while I was holding the baby. Not the best year of my life!

Living in a shared flat in London and having fun but about to be made redundant and decided to move back to my uni city as couldn’t afford a place alone in London. Loved being back there but hated the job I got and very little else available so was back in London the following year.

I’d two children under 2 and had given up work to be at home with them. A decision I never regretted even though we struggled at times especially when mortgage interest rates went through the roof and had to live month to month. But we survived with no regrets.

It was roundabout the millennium, but nothing very exciting was happening in my life that year - I was working full time as I am now, though living in a different place with a different partner. That relationship lasted another couple of years; we broke up and I then moved house, location and job. But back in 2000 I was bobbing along reasonably happily. My lovely cat who lived to the grand age of 20 was only a year old!

23 and was just about to start a very sad relationship with someone I'd never be madly in love with.

Was utterly heartbroken over another relationship (at his own insistance my LDR had moved to London to be with me in 2002 and then a year later he packed his shit, upped and left and threw his brick mobile phone away so I never got any answers or even heard from him again!!). 2003 was the year the new chap started to become my confidant and friend. The one who would always suggest meeting for a drink and a moan, the one who would "drop anything" to keep me company [although in reality it was more like engineer situations to get me drunk and vulnerable to make himself more invovled in my life]

We didn't officially become a couple until 2004, but I went on to spend 3 unhappy years with someone who "adored me" but who I was with as I felt duty bound because he took such good care of me and spent so much money on me

Was a very messy, sad and stagnant part of my life. Thankfully it all picked up again in 2007!!