Its so sad reading about horrible situations that women find themselves in on this forum and the amount of people who are in or have been in the same or similar situations is staggering! If you could give any advice to yourself ten years ago, what would it be?
Mine?
That size ten topshop skirt you wore on holidays did NOT make you look fat. You looked magnificent. 32 year old you wouldn't get it on past mid thigh. You should have taken more pictures.
Just because seafood is cheap and smelled nice in Puerto Rico does not mean it was well cooked. Don't eat the complimentary calamari.
You should have listened to your mother when she told you to leave the douchebag you had children with. The fact he is nice sometimes is not good enough.
Do not get those dodgy hair extensions. Bad choice.
Ignore your exMIL, shes a douchebag still though, resist the temptation to throttle her
Don't worry about the small stuff re raising the kids, in ten years time they will still be healthy happy and thriving. The fact you missed playgroup three weeks in a row does not make you a bad mother. You're doing quite well at it now, actually.
For the love of god, don't buy those shoes. You cant walk in them, they made your feet bleed and they're not even that pretty.
When they open an artisan cheese shop next to your house- do not go in every day and buy said cheese and eat it all to yourself. This is how you rediscovered your pregnancy weight plus more. Say no to the cheese.