To ask what you’d do between 25-30 if you had your chance again

[Floresfrescas]

I’m 25 and currently getting divorced. Met DH when I was 19 and he was 30. I ‘settled down’ far too quickly, but thankfully no DC. The relationship was emotionally abusive from the start but it took me a number of years to realise it and to eventually end the marriage. I now find myself in a position of new-found freedom and feel as though I have a lot of ‘living’ to do!

Due to DH being highly manipulative and outwardly charming, I’ve lost a number of close friends and family who disagree with my decision to end the marriage. Therefore after the current situation has settled down, I’m planning to move to a new area of London and start again.

Looking to cheer myself up so...I’d love to know what you’d do or say to your late 20s/early 30s self if you had a chance to live it all over again!

Not get married.
Dump the job and retrain for another one while not saddled with kids and mortgage
Travel.

I have DS though and wouldn't change that

OP, you're not the daughter of the woman who has posted a few times about her 25 year old daughter divorcing her DH and moving to London?

I would have not drunk so much, not had so much sex with random people, not wasted so much money.

I would save, be more considerate and worked on my shockingly low self esteem.

Have all three dc in quick succession. If I could have seen into the future I'd have had them one after the other as close together as possible.

Pretty sure your mother was on here a couple of weeks ago complaining about her daughter's plans to move to London after a divorce.

Anyway I digress. I wish I'd gone abroad, travelled, worked anywhere else, whilst I could. London just isn't exotic enough for me personally :)

Good luck, and enjoy your new found freedom!