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.

Same DW, house,DC toddler rather than teen.

2 Job changes, and about to adopt - so quite big change coming up.

Wasn't even 40!

10 years ago I was 15 in year 10 at school so very different to my life now! Spent most of my days doing homework and revision, hanging out with friends who I am no longer in touch with and discovering new ways to wind my brother up. Actually, that last one I still do - very entertaining.

Now I'm a sahm to a 4 year old pocket rocket - also good entertainment for a wind up.

I was 33, eternally single, living with my parents in Kent, never went out, pretty lonely and convinced that was my lot. I'm now engaged (getting married in two months), I've also relocated to a smallholding in the South West with my DP and started a whole new life. We haven't been blessed with a child despite trying for a couple of years so my life is now filled with my chickens, growing veg and my lovely fiance. It's been a year of mega stress and upheaval but worth it.

I was getting divorced, just started a new job. Two children in primary school. Now have a lovely partner of eight years, thinking of retirement, two adult children going to university. Very happy!

Was 20, sahd, living with my dp then to be dw, had my eldest ds who was 5 month old. Went on to get married to dw (now exw) and have ds2.

Separated three years ago and divorce just through now. Living with my new dp of 2 years and split the time with the kids 50/50. Went to uni, got a degree and in a fantastic job. Life could be better but so much happier than I was 10 years ago. Couldn’t imagine how things turned out.

I had 3 small children - today all bigger than me!

I had just gone back to work part time after a few years of being a SAHM.

I've lost so much family in the last 10 years - 3 of my grand parents, my MIL, my dad. I miss each of them.

I still live in the same house - it's way more messy than 10 years ago - needs decorating and stuff replacing.

We are cash rich and time poor - I would love to go back to my part time hours.

Had been with dp 10 years and was busy trying to get pregnant, full of hope.
10 years and 4 failed ivf cycles later we have the most wonderful adopted daughter who will be starting reception in September.
Still with dp will be celebrating 20 years together this August.
Still a nurse but in a different team and not as ambitious as I was.
Have moved out of town and just renovated a lovely big Victorian house. My dream was to live in the sticks but small person and school choices took priority.
I’m happy but not in the areas that made me happy then. Sacrifices have been made but dd is our life and I love her more than I can express.
43 now and not living the life or being the person I thought and hoped I would but enjoying this other life.

10 years ago - working full-time, living with partner, couldn't drive, daughter still at home. Renting. Still had lots of family.
Now- still working - same role / same job, no longer with partner but we are now great friends, passed test, daughter married. Home owner (still paying small mortgage), have a good sized (for me) nest egg. Family getting smaller rapidly due to bereavements. That's the biggest change with the most effect.

Same house
Same husband
Had my last child.

My dad died 6 weeks before I had DS and my granddad died 6 weeks after I had him.

So not a very good time.

I had my parents, my partner, my best mate, my dog, my career and I was young, skinny and gorgeous.

Every single one of them is now gone.

On the upside, I am now retired early (40s) and spend most of my time bumming about and doing my hobbies.

I was 28, married a couple of years, living with my husband in a wee house, and working.

Today I’m still married, but in a different house and job. And now we have a son and a dog

Ruggy

I was in high school. I now have two kids, a husband, can drive, live in a different country, still covered in pimples though so not that different.

10 years ago early 30's and seeing someone that I really shouldn't of been and wasted so much time on, fast forward to now and happily married to fantastic guy, life couldn't be more different

It was a mess 10 years ago. I was unemployed after doing a masters in an industry that crashed in 2008. My boyfriend (now husband) was made redundant.. we almost split and I Had major health scare ! Yay!

Now I’m happily married with a baby. We both have good jobs and our own place. Very happy.

2009 - different house, 1 dd aged 1 and I'd just returned to work for 2 months.

Life 10 years ago was horrific, I had a major nervous breakdown at the end of 2008. I thought I'd never enjoy life again, it's taken years but I'm back to normal, well my version of normal

Same house, same DH, one DC instead of two, same job.

More pets. More grey hair. Different car. Different family scene with some arrivals and some departures.

DD3 was under one, the biggest thing was my MIL was about to die suddenly and turn our lives upside down.

Working for the same employer but different job. Married to same person. DD1 was 1 and I was heavily pregnant with DD2. It was a very warm spring. Dad was still alive but had been in hospital for most of my pregnancy with DD2, it was a really difficult time (he died a year later so never met DS). Lived in a smaller house. Much much happier now than I was then.

I was 28 with a 6 month old baby and a 5 year old! Still a SAHM now ( would love to change that!), just living in a different house

2009 - working from home, 2 ds (8&11), married for 22yrs, childminder to many. Nice life.

2019 - working from home, 2 ds (soon to be 18&21) one away at uni, the other about to go in September, childminder to one, semi retired, DH retired. Nice life.

Had a two yr old, married as I am now. Little two bed terraced (owned). Same job as I do now. Not poor but not a lot of money swimming around.

Now we have an 11yr old and a 4yr old. Still have the terraced house rented out. Happily married. Have a lovely much bigger house which is perfect for us. Much better off financially.

I had a toddler i stead of a tween on her way to independency. Same kind of job, same kind of running around like a headless chicken in a way.

I also was off sick like at the moment, 10 years ago it was tonsillitis, this time it is a sinus infection.