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're not pressing charges. Said to me after being attacked.

14 years ago this week and it never gets any easier. I just want to sleep and never wake up and live it anymore.

"There's a hole in her face, I'm sorry."

Ultrasound technician at our 20 week scan.

V unexpected and devastating. She's now a thriving 3 year old despite this though, so it didn't have an unhappy ending!

"Would you like to come over to my house to watch Red Dwarf?"

Said to 15yo me by the nice, popular girl in my year who felt sorry for me because I was being bullied and had no friends (they'd all fucked off to avoid being tainted by association). I started as her charity case before she realised she actually liked me and 25 years later, we are still best friends.

“Well, if you weren’t so fat you wouldn’t be so uncomfortable would you?”

My dad to 12 year old me after I complained I was a bit hot on holiday in 30C+ heat. (I was a chubby kid, but not obese). Highly recommended to anyone who wants to set their child up for a life of mild/moderate eating disorders

Mum come quick I've done something so stupid

DS1 last May.

I must ring him now and remind him how much I love him

‘Please sit down’
My best friend who my son had confided in had to tell me my son had been the victim of a paedophile.

‘He’s not at school’

The day my son got sectioned after a suicide attempt. He has PTSD from the trauma he experienced.

I love that boy more than life.

"Mam he won't breathe" by my hysterical 19 yr old when they woke to find their 3 month old DS not breathing.
And the saddest, as my son-in-law held their DS at the hospital later, patting his back, he said "he just needs his wind up,"
DGS would be 13 this New Year, I remember that night like it was yesterday.

Hugs to all of you who have suffered loss or illness.

My mum to me: Lymphoma's not cancer is it?

I can't make her better. Intensive care doctor.

I have two one which I said and one I heard;
One I said - "I'm pregnant"
One I heard- "I found a lump." My mum came home and told me this when I was 30 weeks pregnant. Thankfully she got the all clear but time has never stood still like that moment xx

Not a sentence, no words where needed, just my dad kneeling down before my 9yr old self one morning with a look of complete utter anguish on his face. I knew from looking at him that my mum had died. She was only 28.

These are heartbreaking. The icy knife cuts through again just reading them.

So. Here is are NOT sad ones. ..the sad ones are too difficult to share.

"If you were my friend, back home, me and my friends would beat him up."

I had just met my future husband and I was trying to explain my life. He was referring to my very yo-yo ex who would pull me in and push me away. I realized that I needed to respect myself and firmly say good bye. For good. A year later: "I'm hungry. Wanna go eat?" Dh. 30 years married soon.

If we dont do this operation you will not be able to walk anymore. Oh and you will need both hips replacing before you are 40.

Aged 12

"We can make him comfortable "

2am in our local A+E department. Myself and my sister laughing and joking immediately beforehand about who was going to cut Dads toenails when we brought him home the next morning. I looked over at her and she was crying and I looked at the nurse and said "Does that mean he is going to DIE"?? And so he did, 12 days later aged 64.
Bless you all, some sad stories, and to the poster who found her Xmas presents in the wardrobe (I forget your name) , I am so very sorry xx

"Do you want a game of pinball?"

Reader, I married him.

@Allgoodnamesaregone I’ve just burst into tears reading your comment

Two,really. First one "I'm sorry, but you have lung cancer". Second one, five weeks later "we think we can operate, with a view to cure it". They operated and it did indeed cure it. But it fundamentally changed my life. I thought about it, and at 59 years old I had spent all my life doing what others wanted. School, work and being a Mum (even though I love the bones of my daughter).

I retired early from work (on a good pension) and now as a conscious choice, do only what makes me happy.

Oddly enough, it doesn't make me behave more selifishly. Quite the opposite. I enjoy helping my niece and nephew with child care and my daughter with any financial concerns she may have.

All in all, I feel more content than I have ever felt

"I 100% wish I hadn't proposed to her". Overheard my Fiancè telling a female friend (ex-girlfriend) about three years ago in the middle of the night when he thought I was fast asleep upstairs, a few months after proposing to me. Lots of other heartbreaking, hurtful, personal stuff was said too. It completely and utterly destroyed and humiliated me, and broke my heart at the time. Led to a year of sheer misery between us, me learning to run to save my sanity but we worked it out. Still together, still engaged, and happy together.

'She's gone'

My dad phoning to tell me that my mum had died age 16.

My favourite - 'its a girl!'

Not many organisations need economists but all organisations need accountants !

It is a girl! The first sentence uttered after dd1 was born, following multiple miscarriages and a still birth!

I just don’t want to leave you and your brother ... said my mum a few days before she died and it’s always haunted me. 3 years next week.

Some happy ones:

My brother's oncologist: There is no evidence of cancer (after 5 cycles of chemo, 4 radiotherapy treatments and 2 stem cell transplants)

DD to me after falling out with her sister for 10 months last December: Mum, we've made it up, we're friends again, can we all come home for Christmas?

My dad to me(after not seeing him for 20+ years): I love you and I'm sorry

Said by a lovely lady who looked around our house when times were low:
''what is for you won't go past you''
and also
''this too will pass''
useful for appreciating the good times and also knowing the bad ones are not forever xx

“I have liver cancer” by my dad 2 days after going into hospital. Then being told by doc “it actually started in his oesophagus, and has spread to all his vital organs, and isn’t well enough for chemo” He passed away just over a month later. This was only in July. My life will never be the same again.