To ask which one sentence changed your life?

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I’ll start.

‘My god girl- You’re pregnant.’

Said by a Dr to a 14 year old me.

We have checked the biopsy and I'm afraid it is breast cancer.

Said by my surgeon 11 years ago. I never thought I'd be here still!

"I hoped it [the scan] would show the chemo had got rid of it. But I don't think we're playing that game anymore."

My lovely mum, 3 months after my wedding, when a scan showed her second line chemo wasn't working after her cancer had returned. Luckily they found another drug which gave her a few more years. Of all the ups and downs of her illness and eventual death, that conversation stays with me.

How many babies do you see?

This was the guy doing my first scan - I was almost scared to answer because he made it sound like there was a party going on in there!
Turned out to be twin dds

Exh1 to me: I love you but I’m not in love with you, I am so unhappy and it’s because of you & the kids.

Exh2 to me after 6 months of marriage: do you want me to find somewhere else to live?
Me: yes, I think I do.

All life changing. Sorry for everyone’s loses

"If you'd been this ill 20 years ago, you'd be dead. If you were this ill and lived in most of the countries in the world, you'd be dead. If you were this ill in America you'd be a quarter of a million pounds in debt already - time to realise how lucky you are." Said by the surgeon who'd saved my life while I was having a wee mope about being stuck in hospital.

I've kind of felt lucky ever since.

A respected colleague gave me a slip of paper with a Miyamoto Musashi quote on it when he retired:

Do not think dishonestly
The way is in Training
Become acquainted with every art
Know the ways of all professions
Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters
Develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything
Perceive those things which cannot be seen
Pay attention even to trifles
Do nothing which is of no use

“No-one will ever love you” - my mother to 12 yo me

“You’re going to be an aunt!” - I can’t have children of my own.

I didn't ask for your opinion because your opinion doesn't matter

Said by my husband

Do you want to come up for a visit? - said to me by a friend who had moved away. 3 and a half years later she became my DW.

"So she's a bastard" . My mother re my new baby DD, (I was living with my long term partner, unmarried.)

"I'm afraid it wasn't a heart attack, she has brain cancer." My mum died 5 months later.

5 years later...

"I'm sorry your baby has gone" at 25 weeks pregnant. 2 weeks ago now.

'Will you marry me"

"You have a daughter"

"We need to consider if keeping him on life support is a good idea" - perhaps not the exact words, but I was only 16 and it was my dad.

for all of you, good sentences or sad. Every one relating to SA is making me tear up, thought I was ok today...

(name) raped me - text message from my 11 yr old dd.

she's had three blood transfusions today and I'm taking her home with me in an oxygen tent overnight to keep an eye on her but I don't think she's going to make it - vet who phoning me about my very poorly, tiny kitten. But she did make it and is still going strong.

I'm not a nice person and I wish people would stop telling me I am. I'm not good at anything written by 8yr old ds, found on parents evening in his school tray. It allowed us to get him help.

"The sac has collapsed, this is a failed pregnancy."

The bluntness was actually just what I needed to hear after 2 weeks of uncertainty. Still devastating, but my body seemed to finally let go if that makes sense.

Such sad stories. Massive to everyone.

"We're very pleased to offer you the full scholarship"

"I had a great time chatting with you at the party, and I was wondering whether you might want to come over to watch that movie we talked about"."

"Femunculus - this isn't good....there's no heartbeat"

"I am pleased to tell you that you have passed." Said to me by my driving test examiner.

Can you sit down... yes. What’s wrong? You need to come to hospital now because it’s not looking good. Rushed to hospital arrived on steps. Uncle comes out. ‘Sorry he’s gone’ I collapsed there and then. Then walked into the hospital room and my father had passed away aged 46. I tried to wake him up. I put his socks on. He seemed cold. I rubbed his hand and touched his forehead. I looked at the man next door to his bed who looked at me in despair as someone had just died in the bed next to him.

Inside I was screaming so so hard as I didn’t want to believe this. Dad had gone into hospital the day before with a chest infection. His heart just gave up. Sometimes I just want to say Hi.

From then on I didn’t have a dad on earth but I still talk to him. Of course he doesn’t answer back. But I need to know I can still talk to him.

Come for coffee.....

Didn’t want to. Was persuaded. Met DH. Still together 45 years on...

"Now isn't a good time... can you call back next week"

Said by my then DP when I tried to call him from a work conference. It was that moment that I realised that despite being together for six years and me moving to his country he just wasn't that into me.

I spent the rest of the trip planning, when I got back to his country I packed my stuff, refused his desperate last minute marriage proposal, and got in a flight back home to the UK, turning up in a friend's door with one bag of clothes and no job, no where to live, no clue what I was doing.

Everything I have now, good job, husband, children, house in the town I've always wanted to live, etc came out of that one moment when I decided to tear down the life I had to build a new one.

"your Daddy's died" Said to 16yr old me in my bedroom while I was getting ready for school, by my Granny.

I thought I’d write mine then RTFT
so as not to be influenced.

Wish I had read first now as the general trend is to tell the sad sentences whereas mine is happy. Feel bad now.

I’ve had my share of sadness but no particular sentences came to my mind though “They’ve taken her into something called R.E.S.U.S” phone call from from 16 year old DC who had taken sibling to A&E stands out.... (DC didn’t know what Resus was but I did! Good outcome thankfully).

to those whose tales brought a tear to my eye.

@holdthewine don't feel bad! It's nice to see good ones.

@StealthPolarBear how did the willpower one change your life?

Goodbye Mrsrhod and good luck, you're going to need it. My dad on leaving me at university in 1985 after Easter to take my finals. I had told them in the holiday that I wasn't planning on going home afterwards and would be staying on in my university city with my boyfriend, now dh of 29 years. He was disowning me.

Those words have stuck with me and have ruined our relationship ever since. He's going to leave me a fortune in his will but I just wanted and still want a lovely dad, he cares more about the money than me. I've tried so hard to be the very opposite with my children, who he rarely sees.

Dad is going to die (i was 14)

We need to check your daughter is in the house ( said by female police officer after the news that my then husband had sexually assaulted a child) bottom fell out of my world that day I'll never look at anyone and trust them again.