To ask what’s the best decision you’ve ever made?

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Some positive thoughts! It’s easy for us to think about what we’ve done wrong or could have done differently. But we’ve made some great decisions in our lives too! What are they? x

Having a child. Nothing compares to the fulfilment and joy of her. I never imagined I could feel such love.

And I say that as the mother of a disabled child - my days are often hard and filled with drudgery. Motherhood is the hardest and the best thing I ever did.

Retired early at 49.

Started reading the DARE response book for panic attacks.

I've just gone 50 miles out of my "safe zone" with a moderate panic attack that I was able to control.

I'm hoping to go abroad in a couple of years, with more practice.

Seriously, if you have panic attacks, try the book

Marrying my DH 34 years ago. And taking voluntary early retirement at 58.

To get married at 18.
I couldn't have predicted premature ovarian failure, if i hadn't been a married homeowner I wouldn't have started trying for a baby at 22, if I'd waited I wouldn't have been able to have children.
Just in case your interested I'm 42 now and still happily married to him.

My husband.

To meet the man I had been chatting with on OLD 18 years ago. He is now my husband of 8 years (we took a while to get around to it).

To pay the OLD fee to access the message sent by a bloke from the next county. I think it was £5 - it was 20 yrs ago.

I sent him a message back saying he owed me £5.

Married now for 16 yrs and I remind him he still hasn't paid me back!

That I said yes when my flatmate asked if his mate from school could sleep on the mattress in my room when they got home from clubbing (flatmate's room was smaller & he was getting up at 4am to work in a bakery).
That was my now DH, we chatted all night & got together a few weeks later. That was early 28 years ago.

To keep my baby after insane pressure to terminate from my GP and 2 other medical
Professionals

1. Not marrying the wrong man at the 11th hour
2. Marrying the right man
3. Leaving a job I had had since I left school at 16 and going back to study due to 2 which has resulted in a career doing something that is essentially a hobby
4. Having our wonderful children

To move back to London after the pandemic. My "coastal retreat" home had turned into a prison and I needed to be at the centre of things again...

(House prices went so mad in the same period that the sale of a house in in chi chi bit of North Yorkshire, with acreage and in walking distance of the beach, bought me a very urban little house in central-ish London that I previously wouldn't have been able to afford.)

I went to university the year I turned 30, because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life being disappointed in myself.

Have since graduated with first class honours, very nearly completed a PGCE and I've already accepted a teaching job in my dream school to start in September.

I never thought I'd get here, having 'ruined' my life by having DS1 at 18 (and three more since then). But get here I did!

And I absolutely adored every second of university. Met some brilliant people and definitely got more from the experience than I would have had I gone at 18.

To marry DH.

Deciding to learn to drive was, I think, one of the best decisions I've ever made. It's made a huge difference to my life. There are so many things I could not have done and people I would never have met and places I would never have been if I had never learnt to drive.

This is very similar to my story@LeviOsaNotLeviosaa although my children are now all adults and I am nearing retirement - was worth all the hard work and all nighters and yes I think I made a better choice of degree/PhD and was able to get more out of it than I would have done if I had had the option to go at 18 when I had no self confidence or any idea what I could aim for and achieve. And I believe my children are all proud of me 😊 at least they have told me so now and again

Giving up teaching and moving into HE. Actually that was only possible because a previous decision - to do an MA with the OU.

This is my dream! What kind of work do you do that took you there?

Going after the lad I liked in my first year of uni. I had no idea he would turn out to be a wonderful husband and father, but I feel so, so lucky that we met. Together we have made everything else in our lives possible, but it all came from that.