to ask whats the bravest thing you’ve ever done?

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as the title says

Great thread - some really heartfelt things here.

Choosing to leave a professional career at which I was very successful but which I hated and made my life miserable with nothing to go to was definitely one brave point.

Probably my bravest moment was the point when I walked away from my relationship of 30+ years with emotionally abusive, massively cheating exH. He could never quite man up enough to say he wanted out of our marriage and family, it was always excuses and "you're the one for me really, I despise her, it's just sex".

After months of this I looked at him and realised with absolute clarity that the man I had loved was nothing but a figment of my imagination and that in order to be me I had to walk away and never look back. I walked and have never regretted it.

Skydive to celebrate turning 60. It was awesome.

finding one of my parents minutes from death and keeping it together to call an ambulance and get help.

gonna name change and come back to post

Moved to UK from overseas when I was 21 with a small suitcase of clothes and 30 pounds in my pocket.
When I was 11 I lived with my mum, just 2 of us, my mum had her appendix burst suddenly in the middle of the night, we didn't have a phone in the house back then and no doctors close by. I run through the whole village in cold and snowy December night banging on people's doors asking someone to call an ambulance for me. Don't know if that was brave but I was so terrified that my mum would die.

Ok, so now OP has answered, I'll go with mine - taking a two week old baby to the
GP and then hospital, suspecting they were totally blind....

Topaz that’s to be expected my lovely, but you’ve come a long way since your early threads. You’ll have bad days, but you’ll continue to learn to live alongside it. We are all still here for those hard days xx

Tried to resuscitate a guy in front of his wife. It was early morning and we were camping whilst fruit-picking one summer whilst students. There were some older retired couples there and got woken by lots of shouting first thing (turned out an older couple had been having some alone time together and afterwards he had had a massive heart attack). Ended up in their caravan desperately trying to bring him back but couldn't. His wife's animal screams will never leave me...

Another was run across the road one Fri night and pull a man off his gf to stop him smashing her head through a shop window...he pulled a knife on me...fortunately my friends had grabbed a couple of guys and before he could do anything else they waded in...

for other's loss...

Battled Stage 4 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma with some ground breaking treatment that meant replacing spinal fluid with chemotherapy to protect my brain. Like having an epidural ten times within 5 months. 8 years on and still in remission.

I was indecently assaulted aged 13. Haven’t really talked about it much but looking back, I was incredibly brave in that situation. It could have been so much worse or even ended in death. I thank God that I had the gift of the gab & talked my way out of danger.

Move abroad.

Survived becoming a sudden widow and developed some kind of normal for us with no family support (practical, financial, emotional). Somehow managing to work full time (and all the unpaid overtime my job demands) and keep this show on the road with absolutely no paid or informal help apart from childcare. It is not that I would not love a cleaner and someone to do the decorating/basic DIY but we are now on very limited funds!

Backpacked around Europe by myself aged 16.
Several years later I landed in a foreign country on a one way ticket with £10 to my name. I suspect the earlier experience prepared me for the latter!

I ran in front of a car to save a toddler that ran into the road.

Thankfully the car stopped in time.

Toddler's mother didn't even thank me!

Great idea for a thread

so many brave people

I dislodged food from a choking man by administering the heimlich manoeuvre, it does not really seem brave but I have an irrational fear of choking

I stopped a bank robbery. Got the knife of him and the held onto him until someone else came to help. We sat on him until the police came. I was 3 months pregnant and I'm only 5ft tall. I've no idea what came over me. My family were very angry at me! I did get a £500 reward The man that tried to Rob the bank actually turned out to be a patient of mine some years later. I never mentioned it and neither did he, but the 1st time we both looked at each other, we knew.

I'm not a brave person at all so the bravest thing I have done, apart from have three babies, was to walk into a room full of strangers for a WI group I had just joined and sit at a a table of women and speak to them.

Admitting that i wasnt able to look after two children on my own and agreeing with the LA plan to have them adopted.

@Wowzel I will Thank you on the toddlers behalf. That must have been scary for you I think I'd have lost my bladder control with that one.

Living everyday since my beautiful, wonderful, talented 22 year old son took his own life.
It has changed me irrevocably and has been the hardest thing I have ever done.
I didn't realise how brave a parent is until I became a parent who had to arrange their child's funeral.

I watched Alien (the first one) in the cinema for goodness sake , without alcohol, and without a remote to switch it off or turn down the sound when it got really scarey.

You're amazing folks.
Mine were: moving to different countries, on my own, twice, and having to deal with non English speaking bureaucracy. And standing up in front of 100+ people more expert than me to give a talk about something I was very non expert in.

Koko when at rock bottom.

Flew in an RAF fast jet (as a civilian).

Swam the English Channel.