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What was your life like in 2005?

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AbsentmindedWoman · 06/08/2021 23:27

I was 20 and life was so, so easy compared to now. Just had such a sense of having plenty of time, and that the future was going to be great. I was at uni and loved my course, the people I met etc. It seems like yesterday in one way, can't believe it's so long ago.

What was your life like in 2005?

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Zotter · 07/08/2021 14:08

Ps sorry forgot to say I am sorry about your ill health too.

FlowerPower3110 · 07/08/2021 15:56

I was 19 and went backpacking in South America with my 3 best friends. Everything seemed so much easier. No kids, husband or responsibilities... I had a lot of fun Grin

2005 was definitely one of the best years of my life.

RamsayBoltonsConscience · 07/08/2021 16:08

Hell! I split with my exdp at the start of May after discovering his affair. Things up to that point had been horrible. Although I'm fiercely independent, I found it hard to cope financially and emotionally. My mum took my ds and I to Euro Disney in the October and I felt... nothing. I realise now that I had depression and can't really remember when I came out of it (I just seemed to do it gradually), I also had to make a decision to stop drinking in the evenings (which I started doing to help me sleep 😩) as my dad was an alcoholic and I could see things travelling down the same path. That year was very difficult.

withdrawal123 · 07/08/2021 16:08

Life was shit. I was 13 and being sexually abused which was to go on for another two years Sad

princessspotify · 07/08/2021 17:12

I was 20, qualified as a nurse in the june and turned 21 in the July. My 2nd shift as qualified nurse was the day of 7/7 attacks. I was working in a London hospital at the time. It was crazy.
I'd been with my bf for a year, he is now my husband.
It was a fab year really. Young and carefree. lots of possibilities.

poppym12 · 07/08/2021 17:18

I had a life changing accident. My marriage started to go to shit and my son suffered. If I could go back in time, I'd change the mental impact on my little boy.

danadas · 07/08/2021 17:35

It was really hard.

I was 21. I had a 2 year old and a newborn and we had just bought a house. We worked two jobs each to pay for everything and I only took 4 months maternity as we just couldn't afford any longer.

However those hard times allow for easier times now so swings and roundabouts.

Nosilayak · 07/08/2021 17:36

I was 37, had recently adopted a gorgeous little boy and my husband had just won a major award for his profession. I lived in a house I loved and my darling parents lived nearby. I ran the family business with my siblings and was very happy. Today, my son has gone completely off the rails due to early life experiences, he's a drug addict and seems to hate us. My dh has tried to commit suicide twice and will never work again and is diagnosed as psychotic. We lost our dream house and my wonderful parents died. The family business went bust and there's been a major fall out and I'm waiting to find out if I have a serious illness. Life can change so quickly, how I wish I could turn back the clock.

stopgap · 07/08/2021 17:43

Absolutely amazing. I was 28, married two years, and settling into my new life in NYC.

TroublesomeTrucks · 07/08/2021 18:33

2005 was a big year for me. I graduated from my first degree, having tried 3 times to get into the uni of my dreams. I then got a job as a healthcare assistant, started an adult education course to get biology A-level with an amazing group of people and applied and was accepted to medical school. I was also diagnosed with MS.

FullMoonInsomnia · 07/08/2021 18:44

@Nosilayak

I was 37, had recently adopted a gorgeous little boy and my husband had just won a major award for his profession. I lived in a house I loved and my darling parents lived nearby. I ran the family business with my siblings and was very happy. Today, my son has gone completely off the rails due to early life experiences, he's a drug addict and seems to hate us. My dh has tried to commit suicide twice and will never work again and is diagnosed as psychotic. We lost our dream house and my wonderful parents died. The family business went bust and there's been a major fall out and I'm waiting to find out if I have a serious illness. Life can change so quickly, how I wish I could turn back the clock.
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Dollywilde · 07/08/2021 18:53

I was 16. Slightly disappointed with my GCSEs. Trying to carve out an identity. In a pretty toxic friendship group that I wouldn’t ditch until I was 27! Self harming a fair bit. Had attempted suicide the year before but with hindsight that was very much a cry for help, I felt very alone. Very bad relationship with my dad. I don’t have tonnes of happy memories from then tbh. My life changed when I went to university and found my tribe.

It was the year before my dad got diagnosed with MS though, and I was in a stupid relationship. The following year was the diagnosis and then I fell in love (very messily!) for the first time, hard. So even though I wasn’t in a great place it’s probably the last year of ‘innocence’. I just wish I’d had the confidence to be myself back then. I hope my daughter navigates those years better than I did.

TooTiredToAdultToday · 07/08/2021 18:56

I was 15, quickly going off the rails with drink, drugs and getting involved with much older men. Very close to throwing away any opportunity I had at a decent life.

Fast forward 16 years later I have a degree, PGCE, very successful teaching career to date now moving into management. I have a fantastic DH and beautiful children. In the process of buying our dream house.

Can’t believe I was that person looking back I’m very grateful that my life didn’t go in the other direction as it very easily could have.

Nosilayak · 07/08/2021 19:08

@FullMoonInsimnia thank you, that means a lot to me.

Silvergreen · 07/08/2021 19:15

Still setting up my young life in London. I was quite lonely. I'm much happier now but wish I had the body I had them! 😂

PaperMonster · 07/08/2021 19:29

I was 36. I’d had two horrendous incidents that year involving my husband and work. Looking back I have no idea how I got through both incidents individually never mind having to deal with both of them.

youdoyoutoday · 07/08/2021 19:56

I was 25, assistant manager of a pub so it was a blur of drugs, alcohol and sex..... complete opposite to my life now as a SAHM with 2 kids and gym membership... well apart from the sex Wink

youdoyoutoday · 07/08/2021 19:58

With my DP only, I hasten to add Blush

Mary46 · 07/08/2021 19:59

2005 had my 2nd baby. Full on teen now Wink. Life seemed good then. My dad passed 3 years ago so alot family stresses. Husband side same.

WorriedMillie · 07/08/2021 20:09

I’d just finished my PhD and secured a teaching post, soon to be a lectureship, at a RG uni.
I thought I wanted to be an academic, I was wrong, I quit a few years ago and I’m soooo much happier

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 07/08/2021 20:14

Had a good job and was living what I now know was a totally carefree life in Central London. A great social life. The only shadow was my relationship with then-DP slowly breaking down but we didn’t split up until the following year.

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 07/08/2021 20:19

Wow. I had an 8 year old and was in my third year of home ownership with my then live in boyfriend. Now wonderful husband. We lived in a London suburb and l got the train to work. Think this is the year l learned to drive! I spent Saturday nights watching X Factor back when it was new and exciting, and drinking Lambrini because it was 3 quid for an absolutely humongous bottle! I think this was the Christmas we first had i-pods Grin they were good days. Life is still good - very different, but good.

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 07/08/2021 20:21

@PaperMonster Flowers but you did get through, even though sometimes we look back and don't understand how.

mrsmalcolmreynolds · 07/08/2021 20:24

Year of two halves really - I was in my late twenties, getting properly launched in a profession that I am still in and successful at. Had recently moved in with my now DH (we married in 2007). Then a member of my immediate family was killed in the 7/7 bombings and that rather overshadowed the rest of it.

Babiii · 07/08/2021 20:26

I was 5! Life was very simple - no complaints. Now have my own home, life and baby on the way. Where does the time go x