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.

"I missed you mummy" after I picked my son up from nursery
"I'm so proud of you" said by my son when he was bouncing with excitement for having done a wee on the potty, he'd taken in all the times I've said it to him and he was so happy ❤️
"I love you lots mummy" by the same little monkey.
They all made me realise I'm doing a good job, that the things I grew up with will never be my children's childhood and that I'm doing the right thing protecting them from family that want to keep us all "in our place".

Some heartbreaking ones on here, I hope there is real life support

'I can feel your baby kicking ' said to me by a teenager after I was in a car crash at 26 weeks pregnant, I was fading in and out of consciousness but her words snapped me back to reality. I knew there was hope.
I had suffered massive injuries and my son was in NICU for a year but he both made it. The police didn't know her name so I've never been able to thank that girl and her boyfriend for what they did that day.

'Please don't go' said to me by my now eldest dd at a SS contact centre meeting. I'd decided against being a kinship Carer when she grabbed me and wouldn't let go. I very quickly changed my mind, my life, my job......it was all worth it.

“We are pleased to inform you that you have been offered a place at the University of Manchester....”

I grew up on a shithole council estate in a grotty ex-mining town and was the first person in my family to pass any A levels, never mind get a degree. I left home to start my course and never really went back.

"I'm posting you details of some children, phone me back when you've read them". Our social worker: within 8 weeks we had two children placed for adoption with us.

Also I've never forgotten the guy who said "better to regret the things you have done than the things you haven't". For an unadventurous person like me that's good advice.

“You’re not clever enough for Durham” said by my abusive ex during UCAS application time.
I didn’t apply there because of him, I went somewhere else instead and met my dp. Been together 15 years and have a beautiful daughter.

Oh @botanica i’m so sorry it’s horrific isn’t it and I felt so violated - like I went through all of that for nothing. But I didn’t wasn’t the what if... I was the grumpiest patient ever!

@Swissgemma I'm now thinking how amazing it would be if reading your sentence was the one that changes my life...

Here's hoping! 🤞

'We're in business'

said by my fertility doctor at six week scan after six failed IVF cycles

2 really.

Daddy don't hit mummy.

And

Would you go that to your child?

Two:

‘I’m done.’ Me, after finally getting rid of my abusive, violent, cheating ex after 9 years.

‘I do’. Marrying my DH who restored my faith in men and in love. To me, he is perfect.

I’m sorry, we tried, there was nothing more we could do.
Said the A&E Dr to me about my husband, who had a massive heart attack at 37. I was 36.

6 months full board at Drake Hall only joking

“I think we should have a baby” said to me by now DH when one of us finally found the balls to say what we both wanted.

“We’ve actually got a baby!” Said to me by DH before we had even seen whether DD was a boy or a girl. I didn’t fully believe we were going to have an actual baby until the moment she was placed on my chest. Losses and heartbreak had led to that moment.

Your son has died.said to me from a policeman .Steven was 21 and passed from suicide.i am devastated

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'We're really pleased to let you know you'll be joining XXX Big Company Name'

Changed my career, stepping sideways and upwards about 5 levels, by absolutely nailing the interview. Loved the job. Made a huge difference in my earnings too, and ever after as XXX Big Company were a very well known name it opened many doors for subsequent jobs.

Said by my very abusive ex, about my 19 year old son from a previous relationship, after I had told him ( abusive ex ) that he would have to arrange supervised contact if he wanted access to our daughters, due to him putting them at serious risk whilst in his care.." I half feel sorry for * for having cancer and a c**t like you for a mother".
My son had been diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkins lymphoma that week.
I had split up from that ex 2 years previously but he had continued to abuse and control me via our daughters. That comment showed me just how vile and evil he actually was. My son has now been in remission for 2 years and the ex is only allowed to have indirect contact with our daughters, as ordered by the courts. We haven't heard from him for over a year.

" You're doing an amazing job, they are so well behaved and a total credit to you "
My daughters class teacher.

I'm so sorry, this shouldn't have happened, you have permanent spinal cord damage and may never walk again.

Spinal cord injury which resulted from delays in surgical intervention. I was awaiting surgery when a disc ruptured and severed my spinal cord. The news was delivered by a consultant who had been treating my daughter and happened to notice me on the ward, if she hadn't read my notes and been honest with me I would never have thought about claiming compensation. My case uncovered systemic failures in the way urgent cases were being dealt with and has hopefully saved other people from permanent spinal cord injury.

'That trouble with the police, I did it'

Ginno

What happened?

"I'm gay" said by my STBXH immediately after the birth of our third child. It was an utter bolt out of the blue.

@SeaFour

Oh my god that's awful! I truly hope they changed things after that! Have they shown you if they have?

 @Toooldtobearsed  for you. She sounds like a very cruel person.

@petitecolier  for you too. Please seek RL support.

@Oxcheeks very well said. Nothing is quite the same once your parents pass.

for all of the losses suffered on this thread.

“The baby is dead. Do you understand what I am saying?” Said to me by a doctor while I was being prepped for an emergency c-section to deliver my DS. I think she’d been trying to tell my husband and I that there was no heartbeat twice already but I was in the throes of late labour. I delivered him stillborn a few minutes later. Even as we hold our rainbow DD, that moment keeps playing back in my mind over and over again.

Yknow I can’t even imagine what it does to people who have to deliver this bad news day in and day out.

And some classics from my MiL, including later that day “I spoke to my brother and he doesn’t understand why some women refuse c-sections for no good reason”. (I was literally being prepped for one when they decided there was no point going ahead since there was no heartbeat).

Hugs to everyone who’s lost a loved one.

“Don’t be ridiculous, you’re only 30. I didn’t even do my first degree until I was 37”

I was whinging at my local authority (well paid tbf) job that I was unhappy and wanted to retrain, but I felt too old.

Shifted my perspective in seconds