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.

In 2009 I had just moved in with my boyfriend (now dh) into the shittiest rented house ever, worked in a call centre which I hated and was just coasting in life, hanging out with friends, didn't drive and doing whatever the heck I wanted with no real purpose.

Now: married for 7 years, 4 year old ds, assistant manager in my work sector, own our home and learned to drive/bought car, lost my sister so significant family set-up changes too. Very different life from 10yrs ago!

I was in an abusive relationship, very depressed and saw no way out.
Today- looking forward to my wedding in 2 weeks time and marrying my soulmate, iv never been happier

I had given birth to DD3 6 weeks earlier, and had just been told that DD1 (then 3 years 5 months) had a brain malformation, epilepsy and global developmental delay.

Now, 10 years on, DD1 (13) is at Special Secondary School, DD2 (11) has ASD and goes to Mainstream Secondary School, and DD3 (10) goes to Mainstream Primary School. We have 2 cats, a dog and 3 chickens, so life is busy!

My life was pretty similar actually. We'd just bought this house, I had a 9yo DD, I was living with dp and I was working in my current job.

Now, I've got a 9yo DD (a different one, I wasn't quite pg at this point 10 years ago). I've married dp so he's now a DH. I have an older DD, obviously, she's 19 now though, so relatively self sufficient, as in not needing daily care as such. I'm still in my current job, with no plans to change job. We still live in the same house, no plans to move at any point (I hate moving, I'm staying put forever).

All in all, my day to day life now is very, very similar to the life I was living 10 years ago. Within those 10 years I've had some big life changes, like dd2 being born, mat leave, dd1 going through secondary school, dd1 going to uni, getting married, family health issues (all resolved now), etc. But I've come back round to what life was like back then, and I'm quite content with that.

Really different! I was doing my PGCE (primary teaching) age 23, and I was living with a (now ex!) boyfriend in a 1 bed rented house. 10 years down the line, I am still primary teaching (although currently on mat leave), own a 2 bed flat, am married and have a 10 month old DD. Although I have more responsibilities, I am enjoying being in my thirties!

Unhappily married to XH, working very part time in our failing business. Two school-age kids who were (and are) brilliant.

Now I’m very happily married to new DH, have a job I love and my kids are grown up and are out there living their lives.

It was a hard road from there to here, but worth every tear and sleepless night.

@Popsicle434544 that's so lovely. Congratulations! X

I was married to a horrible man, living in a gorgeous house, hugely fat, with a 5 y/o and a baby. I'd just finished writing the best book I'd ever done.

Now living in a different house, that I bought, in a different town, with a different husband. The 5 y/o is now 15 and doing GCSEs. The baby is a gorgeous pre-teen. I've written one more book. And I'm slightly less fat.

2009 - just about to get married. Ok job. 2 bed house. A wonderful size 10. Good social life with a circle of friends.Dealing with untimely death of my dear mil.
2019 - married nearly 10 years not been easy. Rubbish job. Same 2 bed but no mortgage. A not so wonderful size 14. No social life and about 3 close friends who I don't see much. Dealing with the fall out from having ds now 6 (pnd for years still don't think I'm 100% yet)we'll see...

I was married, doing a MSc as part of a career change, had 2 young dc and my dad had a terminal illness. Dad died in the July and I had many realisations about my life. And marriage. And that brought about many changes.

Now divorced, new career going great, teenage kids great and happily non-cohabiting with the best man ever.