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I saw this in the 20s board and thought it would be fun if we did it too!
10 years ago i was 20, just STARTED my bachelors degree, now i am almost done with my PhD! i just STARTED dating my ex-bf who i was with for 4 years (should have broken up after one year!). FI was no where in the picture. i was still living with my parents, i later moved out on my own for 3 years, then just 6 months ago, i moved from east to west coast for internship and FI came with me! wow! 10 years ago, i NEVER would have predicted i would be where i am now and with who i am!
Let's see...10 years ago I was 25. I was working at IBM, had recently bought a new home, and was mama to an almost 4 year old. I wasn't in any relationship and was very happy about that. I was definitely what you would call a serial dater (although I never brought anybody home). My daughter and I did a lot of travelling b/c I knew we would soon be bound by her school schedule.
Now 10 years later...different job, same house (until marriage), same daughter (although a sometimes moody teenager)...and FI who has been in my life for the last 4 years.
Life was good then...life is good now...just different
10 years ago I was 20, living with 4 other girls in a 2 bedroom apartment, getting drunk every.single.day.
10 years ago, I was delighted to be anticipating a cousin's New Year's wedding celebration! (It was black tie and very formal!) I loved the ballgown I wore and the celebration was the start of a fabulous marriage!
I was also 20 and a Junior at UCLA. I'm a long-term relationship girl and I think 20 was the most "single" I have ever been - probably not the safest year of my life, but I survived! I was in a sorority, the marching band, and was playing intramural soccer. Such a fun time!
I was 29...in my second year of medical school up to my ears in books. I had NO idea that I'd be moving to New Mexico soon, had not met FI (although I had talked with him on the phone once), and was getting ready to pick up my new puppy (who just turned 10 years old).
I SO can't wait til I can REALLY come to this board in 4 months! I want to answer this so bad.LOL
I was 22, fresh out of college, starting my career, living in a shoe boxed sized apartment, and single. Now I live in a different city, have changed jobs a few times, live in a fantastic home, and I'm a newlywed!
love it! I was 21, sharing an apt with a friend (paying $245/mo for rent - you can only imagine) in my home state in NE, partying A LOT (lol), just started dating my ex (that's a story in itself), working two crappy jobs, and attending community college. I have no idea how I had the energy for all that!
Now - have my master's degree, renting a house with my amazing FH, and living in another area of the US. I never dreamed I would have a career, meet the man of my dreams or move out of my home town. Sometimes I look around and it amazes me :)
I was 20. Married to my ex-husband (who I divorced about 6 months later). I was a junior in college and had just decided to major in English.
10 years ago I was 21, a junior in college. Living in a house with four other girls. No relationship, in fact never had a boyfriend.
Let's see, 10 years ago I was 23. I was just graduating San Francisco State University with my communications degree. I was working as a campaign manager for a local Assemblywoman and was applying to law school. My second long term relationship was just coming to an end (thank god) and I was living by myself for the first time in a converted Victorian house in Napa.
Ah, memories...
ETA: oh crap! Wait, I was recounting 2003, not when I WAS 23! That would've been 2000/2001. Okay, I had just moved to Napa after leaving my evil ex-boyfriend (like, throw all your crap into a trash bag and get the hell out while he was at work, left.) I rented a couple rooms from a woman in her house and was waiting tables until I could save up enough money to continue with my classes at SFSU. I was spending a lot of time in bars after work. My credit was so bad I couldn't even get a bank account and was forced to deal with those skeevy check cashing places. I was just coming out of a VERY dark time...
Now I'm an attorney renting a home with my FI who I'm marrying in three and a half months!! We're also looking to buy a home. I've come a LONG way in the past 10 years.
Oh gosh. Let's see. 10 years ago I was 23. I was living in a studio apt in DC working for a big int'l org, just found out I'd gotten into grad school in Boston. Holy crap that feels like forever ago!
Oh boy..I was 23 and a MESS..lol..Was just starting my career in adveritsing (which I am still doing today)....was living in Hoboken.. I was heavily into the party scene - expecially clubs in NYC...lots of partying...lots of wearing outfits I would never thinking to wear now...going to clubs AT 5am and staying until noon..going out every night..its a wonder I made it through those years alive...I wouldn't take anything back, but was such a different life than i live now!
@lezlers: Seriously, that is a great turn around story! We really hit some low places in our lives... I guess that saying is true - If you didn't know the feeling of hurt/dispair you would never know what happiness is. Kudos to you! How did you do it!!!????
My story- 10 years ago... lets see I left a guy I was living with, found my own beautiful apartment, bought a car, worked a lot of hours at a job I loved and was completely content with my independant living. I bought a dog shortly after and he is my life... he's almost 9 now. I have to say, that period of my life was great.... then followed by some dark/hard moments. I also had a situation like lezlers where I packed all my crap in a garbage bag over 10 years ago while he was at work and moved home!!!! :)
Having my first baby! She's 10 yo now!
(DH and I had 3 kids before getting married)
I was about to turn 21. I had just finished up the fall semester of my junior year of college, had broken off a 5-year relationship with my high school sweetheart a few months earlier, and was preparing to leave to spend a semester in Ireland. I was scared and excited, since I was doing it independently (not through a study-abroad program). I had a week's reservation in a hostel and then I had to find myself a place to live. I'd never done anything like that, and I had no idea what a transformative experience I was about to have!
Now I'm about to turn 31 (in 3 days), am working like crazy to finish my PhD by the end of the academic year, trying to get a tenure-track job, and planning my wedding. Can't believe it's been 10 years since that trip.
Ack...i was 25, and had just moved out on my own. My very own 400 sq ft bachelor apartment in Toronto ($900 a month!!!, less then my mortgage now on our 1600 sq ft house!).
I'm 30 as of today! 10 years ago feels like a life time ago, I had just turned 20 and I was doing my first year of university. My parents were in the process of splitting up so it was a tough time. I was pretty miserable my first year of college as I went to a big city with no campus and I didn't have a place to stay for the first few months. The next year got a lot better when I transferred to a campus college and a different city.
Love wise, I was seeing an English guy I met in France in 1999. We ended up being together for 8 years and spending most of our 20s together, in many ways we grew up together. We broke up a couple of years ago and remain friends.
I feel like I have come so far in 10 years, when I was 20 I was so inexperienced and immature, now I feel like have lived a full life with all that entails, and I hope the next 10 years will be even better!
I was 21 and getting ready to graduate college. Probably partying a little more than I should have. . .
10 years ago I was about to turn 21 living in a dorm, half way through my junior year of college, I had just started researching grad schools and and the GRE. And I was dating the biggest liar I have ever met.
I was in the process of buyng my condo that I sold when I got married last year. I was working at a job I hated and litle did I know that I would soon be laid off and would find a job doing a different type of library work than I ever thought I would. I've stayed in that area of library work for nine years now. I thought I would never find a husband.
I was 27, and had just moved from my hometown in Ohio out to San Diego, CA and was living in a teensy apartment with a great view of the bay. I was dating a man who I would date for waaaayyyy too long. I learned a lot about myself out there, and then moved back home 5 years later 'cause I'm a midwesterner at heart. :)
Wow, that seems like a really long time ago and just yesterday all at the same time!
@RR: Seriously, that is a great turn around story! We really hit some low places in our lives... I guess that saying is true - If you didn't know the feeling of hurt/dispair you would never know what happiness is. Kudos to you! How did you do it!!!????
Truthfully? A lot of luck. When I decided I couldn't wait any longer to leave my ex, another waitress at work just happened to be moving out of the room she was renting. That's how I found a place to live I could afford. The job with the assemblywoman kind of fell in my lap, through a friend of my moms. I had no clue what the hell I was doing since I had no experience in the field but somehow I figured it out. I was cheap labor, so they were willing to cut me a lot of slack. I got into an accident in the car that was about to be repossessed and ended up getting more out of the insurance settlement than I owed on the car, which helped me to both pay off the loan as well as make a hefty dent in the dozens of bills that had slipped into collections. After a couple of years of darkness I just had one thing after another work out. I chalked it up to karma. :)
I work as a public defender now and am really grateful I went through that time in my life, as it helps me to empathize with a lot of my clients.
@PurpleUnicorn: I was 20 years old in undergraduate school. The most important thing to me was pledging my beloved sorority. I lived on campus, I was young, carefree and having fun!
I was living in LA, single and partying it up and having the time of my life.
What a great thread- I had never really thought of this. Ten years ago, I had just found out that my boyfriend of 4+ years had been cheating on me with a VERY close friend, while I was away at college. I wa living in a sorority at the time, and I spent half of a sememster sulking, and then I perked up and partied my face off for the rest of the semester.
Fast forward ten years- ex boyfriend and ex friend dated for 6 more years- got engaged, and then broke things off because of (surprise!) infidelity. I am now getting married to my fabulous FI and the sorority sisters who got me through everything are my maids! It's so funny how things in life work out!!!
@The Unsuspecting Bride: Happy Birthday!
Having turned 30 on Sunday I can now contribute ;) I was 20, at college looking forward to studying for my final year at uni the following year.
What a great thread!
I was 22, almost 23, living in a Washington, DC suburb and working at my first full-time post-college job. I was making sooooo little money, but had gotten lucky with my housing--rented a room in a townhouse with three other girls, so I didn't pay a ton every month. I had just bought my beloved 2000 red mustang (which I just traded in last month after 10 great years together!). I was less than a year into what became a 6-year relationship. This was a relationship that should never have lasted that long--if I knew then what I knew now...
It would be over three years before I started my current job, and over six before I met my now-fiance. I still live in the same suburb, but moved five times in the same area over the past ten years! On this day ten years ago I was probably preparing for the 8-hour car trip back home to see my parents.
I was 21 about to be 22 and I was getting ready to marry the biggest ASS of all time.
He was my highschool sweetheart so I thought it *had* to just work out like it does in the movies. He was an alcoholic and a heavy drug user not to mention he was was emotionally abusive. I thought if I loved him enough he would change. UGHHH ignorant youth!
Now I am in a happy healthy relationship with the man of my dreams. I cant wait till we are married and start a family. I am done with college have a great paying job that I love and I never look back at those years I spent with Mr. Wrong.
10 years ago I was in my final year of college and panicking because I still didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I decided I wans't ready to endter the real world yet and applied to law school. Fast fwd to now, I'm an atty who's getting married to another atty. LOL! Guess law was the answer to my question. :)
I was 22, in college, and just had my heart broken. It took pretty much a whole year to get over it, while I tried to enjoy single life and college life. Then a year later I fell in love, had my heart broken... I am so glad I'm in my thirties and in a functioning grown-up relationship now, lol!
Ten years ago, I was a 24 single mother of a one year old, dating a guy that couldn't decide what he wanted and pathetically waiting for him despite knowing that there was another woman. Now, I am over that ridiculous situation. Now I have finished with my PhD. My FI and I have known each other since we were 10 years old. His mother and my mother were best friends. She passed away in 1999 and sometime in 2000 was the last time I talked to my FI. If you would have told me I was going to marry him 10 years ago, I would have laughed. We reconnected and I'm in the best relationship I've ever been in. I'm looking forward to marrying my best friend.
I was 29 and had just ended a 10 year relationship. I had left the state to go work on the presidential campaign in Minnesota.
10 years ago I was 23 and in rehab!!!! I turned 10 years sober in December and my fiance proposed to me on the eve of my 10 year sober anniversary. It was a very special night! I'm so looking forward to the next 10 years!
10 years ago I was 26 and living in New Orleans, waitressing at the House of Blues, volunteering for ACORN, and slowly starting to pack my life up to move to Delaware to start law school. I was living with a boyfriend and our puppy Cheyenne who was 1 years old. He asked me to marry him, but I said no. Glad I dodged that bullet! hahahaha
What a great question LOL...I'm new to the board as of today, so what better time to reflect that on the first new day of the new year!
10 years ago I was 23, living with my mom in Houston, and working with her at her company for minimum wage. I'd taken a break from college that had stretched into the second year, and really wondering what the heck I was going to do with the rest of my life.
I'd also just spent Christmas with my boyfriend's family in Atlanta...we were madly in love and thought we were each other's "ONE AND ONLY". In about three weeks or so that he moved to Houston to live with me and my family.
Welp...fast forward to now...I didn't marry the boyfriend (he proposed, we started planning, but I canceled...he had mommy/other issues that I told him he needed to work out). I finished college in 02, and eventually got a master's degree as well. In 2009, after having been single since breaking up with the ex, I met FH online...and I'm so glad I waited LOL! Looking forward to our wedding in six months!
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