What did your life look like 10 years ago?

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As in 2009

Is it different to what it is today

I was in school doing my GCSEs ,today I am in a job.

Not very different I am honest, same house, same DH, same DS (obviously we are all older ), same hobbies & interests, more or less the same group of friends, same yo yo dieting and still overweight, still spending too long on Mumsnet .. do have a p/t job now that I didn’t then but really, much the same (dullsville).

Well, I was 17 and pregnant, been with OH a year. I worked weekends and was at college, living with my mum and dad.

Now I've got a (nearly) 10 year old dd, been with now DH 11 years, work full time, live in a lovely house.

So things have changed alot for me.

Not as good back then (at 42) as it looks now (at 52). It was fine back then; it fucking rocks now

New country, new career, new house. Couldn’t be more different.

I was getting married in two months - much thinner, no kids. Other than that pretty much the same (although we have moved house in between) 😁

Not a huge amount different. Same job, same home, single. On the other hand, my Mum is no longer around, different car and learning the piano.

Same shit, different day.

I was 13, haha! In High School fancying skater boys and dying my hair black.

Now I'm a married lady with a nearly two-year-old DD, we own our own forever home and I've just started a brilliant brand new job. Also recently found out I'm around 7 weeks pregnant too!

Married. ....2.4 kids and a dog. Typical usual family lifestyle....happy but bored (with life, not hubby) Roll on 10 years...still got the kids and dog, widowed, but amazing life and living it way more than I was in 2009

Single, child free, civil servant. Bodybuilding.

Now self emp, 2 weans, twins on way. Living 70 miles away with my dp and weans.

I was working full time, single, living at home thinking I would never find anyone. Now I have DH and DS 👍🏻

I was in my second teaching job, being ground into the earth by the most vile workplace bully I've ever come across. Was a suicidal bag of nerves suffering from depression, other mental health issues, and was at risk of messing up my entire future.
It's actually horrible to think about how things were back then...but luckily life is pretty excellent these days!

Similar to today, only we're all 10 years older, we own a house instead of renting ... that's about it.

10 years ago I was a single mum to 3 kids. Working, lots of weekends to myself when the kids went to their dads.

10 years on. Im married with 2 more kids, a stay at home mum, different house though. Not many nights out lol mostly because I'm exhausted 🤪

I had just finished my first - badly- written novel and then went to America for three months. Mental health problems still the same and wasn't in contact with my family.

Fast forward 10 years life hasn't turned out how I planned at all.

God I was second year at (grad entry) med school with a 4 and 1 year old living in a very pretty 2 up 2 down terrace in SW London! DH and I weren’t yet married. I thought I was old but I was young!!!

Now I have 14 , 11, and 6 year old kids, plus our gorgeous dog and we live in my ideal 5 bed house by the sea. Still training - slowest training, part time junior doc in the world but hey, it’s about the journey! Love what I do, love my kids infinitely more and resented my own mum for working full time so not any option for me. Was happy then but much happier now.

I was completely heartbroken after my then dh had left me for his ex before me a few months before now (ten years ago) and wondering what the fuck I was going to do with my life as he’d upped and left and dd then aged 6 and I never saw him or heard from him again. I had just been made redundant and was in 20k of debt - due to ex.

A few months on from that I met now dh... we’ve been together ever since and now have ds aged 6 He is a fantastic step dad to dd now aged 16. I’m now very happy with my life.

In 2009 I was living my best life, now ... not so much. Hopefully it will be better in another 10.

Not again.

I was probably in the pub. Was starting a not very good relationship, in a meh job with not much of a clue what I wanted to do. Much better relationship now, DCs, that job is well gone and life is way more secure, stable and way better craic😁

In 2009 I was in a different job, living in a different country.
10 years on I'm still with the same DP & we now have a son & have a lot more grey hairs

Then - Married and pregnant.

Now - divorced and single parent to a wonderful 9 yr old

Had a 5 month old and was fucking knackered, mourning the loss of my well rested care free life and wondering when it was going to get easier!

I was 22, in a miserable relationship, living at home with my parents who argued constantly, just finished college and struggling to get a job. Not happy times at all.

Now I'm with the love of my life, moved out in our own home, engaged and a 7 month old DS. This is what I always dreamt of❤️

I was returning to full-time work after having DD1. And was about 2 stone lighter than I am now!

Still live in the same house. Still with DP who is now DH. We also have DD2. I now have a different job and work a 3 day week.

Still loving life.