where were you ten years ago?

[Yorkiegirl]

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[flumpybono73]

Probably drunk in a pub in Headingley (student at the time)

[nannyme]

Was in the middle of University, living in the Lake District on the tail end of a big relationship break up with now ex-fiancee and about to walk into the biggest mistake of my life - getting together with my now ex-husband.

Now, living in France, self employed, in my 3rd big relationship and have 3 wonderful children.

Some seriously awful shit has happened in between but, for the most part, optimistically happy.

How you doing YG? I've been away from MN for a while for one reason or another and just caught up with your sad news. Sorry if I'm dragging it up but I don't doubt you haven't stopped thinking about it for even a second.
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[pointydog]

On maternity leave with 6 week old dd1. Sunny, bewildering days.

[Wilbur]

It's funny seeing this thread because just yesterday a great friend called to ask me if I remembered what I was doing ten years ago that day. I didn't, but she did because I was driving to the airport to collect her - she had been my flatmate in Los Angeles and was moving here to start a new life after some years of moving around. Ten years on she's engaged to a lovely man, about to buy a house and expecting her first baby (at 42) . So that got me thinking a lot about the last ten years. Ten years ago I had just moved in with my now dh, my parents were still alive, I had a great job for a film producer, which I loved, and had just started being paid to write. Ten years on I still have dh (and three children), I still sometimes get paid to write but the career has stalled, and my parents have both died. So it has been an extraordinary decade for me - both positive and negative. Hmmm, lots to think about.

[Thomcat]

I'd come out of a long relationship whee I only stayed becuase his mother was dying od cancer.
Fell in love/lust with a guy while seeing some muppet, who treated me like a princess and irritated the life out of me so finished with him and waited for this other guy to finish with his girlfriend who according to the bloke and various others sources, tried to kill herself so we didn't ever get it together properly.
Went on holiay to florida with this bloke and my best mate and her boyfriend who recently had become an ex as well! Had a fab time, met up with my mate in Key West.

Came home and the next day bumped into my now Dp who used to be a DB at college. Went out with him and that was all 10 years ago.

[hermykne]

i was job hunting having finished college
dh then dp was working and we just mooched and pottered about aimlessly. mind you he was/is 8 yrs older and should have had more sense than me then.

[vicksie]

I was really having a shit year, had my heart broken and so went a bit mad over the summer drinking and smoking too much, also Euro 96 sticks out for me cause it was in Leeds and everyone seemed to turn into football fans overnight

[Coolmama]

had just moved from Europe to LA and was dating one of the hottest boyfriends I ever had - sadly -

[Peridot30]

I wsa 20 and was working in jewellers and partying every wkend( oh who life has changed) had been dating dp for 9months(now dh) Who would have thought we would have lasted this long.

[Blondilocks]

I was 12, had been with OH about a month, & at school!

[wabbitt]

yes i deffo think this should be a hot thread... Come on Mumsnet Towers

[RanToTheHills]

what a fascinating thread, one of the best I've seen for ages! Nikkie,you make me feel old!
I was then in my 20s (how they stretched before me then but how far away they seem now!). I was living overseas, I was with ex-p and wd not then have touched someone like dh with a bargepole . I was shallow. I still am sometimes

[nikkie]

Starting 2nd year at 6th form planning Uni (haven't got there yet either!)

[TLV]

embarking on a bloody awful relationship, bought the house moved in but little did I know what the future held for me, was shite!

[Yorkiegirl]

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[CJinSussex]

Was wearing suits and commuting to London. Was boffing postroom boy who was about 10 years my junior. Was mostly drunk.

It took me bloody ages to remember that. The mid 90's were a bit of a waste of my time.

[wabbitt]

I was mid-way through a 9 year relationship with an alcoholic - probably just waking up to the fact that love can't make someone need alcohol less or mend a damaged personality...

He was very clever at undermining my confidence and I can't believe the things I gave up just to 'be there' for him and endlessly sit and watch tv so he didn't have to feel so inadequate

I don't miss the frequent character assasinations or the arguing!

Vaguely wonder if ex is still alive or if he finished himself off with one of his massive epileptic fits

[swedishmum]

7 mnths pg with dd aged 2 and dd2 aged 10 mnths (had already lost one baby as dd2 was a twin). Still lived near civilisation.

[Kelly1978]

Interesting thread! I was 18, off to uni, with hopes and aspirations that were never to be realised. I ended up with four adorable children instead, but a life I never imagined.

[prettymum]

11- i was starting secondary school

[nulnulcat]

i was 25 had just jilted someone, was modelling and temping and having a fling with my boss. left all of it to work for an airline and see the world and married the ex i had dated from 18 - 23! he now ex h but i am gratefull for dd so it was all worth it.

oh and i was probably partying hard drinking too much taking illegal substances and not remembering most of it!!

[rustybear]

Ten years ago this minute I was probably sitting in exactly the same place as I am now - I was 40, DS was 8 & DD 6 & I was a SAHM but working part time typing stuff for a friend of DH - I used to do it after the kids were in bed - I have just realised that 10 years ago my desk was exactly where it is now.

[hub2dee]

Ten years ago tomorrow I met dw !

Crumbs.

I was working in Holborn as a young computer person for a company which did whizz bang stuff with financial data on PCs, and went out for a drink with my boss and a client after work one evening.

DW was there was a fellow student (she was studying law at the time) and looked mighty fine. As I was leaving I looked back to catch her eye... She waved, and so I thought rather than disappear off I should go over and stun her with my witty repartie and debonnaire good looks. I gave her my number and we had lunch a few days later. The rest, as they say, is history.

Awwwwwwwwwwww.

[whoopsfallenoveragain]

I was 19! finding out that you really should know someone well when agreeing to share a flat as she turned out to be a bit of a psycho!
Was working as a lifeguard, gymnastics, trampolining & swimming instructor! I can only dream of trampolining noe as I would probably knock my head off now
Could go where I wanted when I wanted!