Turning points in your life - name 5

The ‘big’ one was also becoming a Christian- took me more than half a lifetime.

Getting married
Becoming a mother
Getting divorced
Death of my mother
Becoming a grandmother

Divorcing an idiot
Having brilliant job
Marrying amazing man
Having 2 wonderful children
Having a good life

Parents splitting up
Becoming a parent myself
Meeting Mr 1968
DC moving overseas
Retirement

Getting maried.
Having two children.
Having grandchildren.
Getting divorced.
Re-marrying.

Having my 3 children
Divorcing my alcoholic first husband.
Meeting and marrying love of my life
Losing him
Retiring to enjoy my growing family.

Being born
Finally recovering from the bowel complaint that dogged my childhood
Going to University
Discovering archaeology
Retiring early

As my mother always said, with a shrug, most people get married and have children.

Being adopted.
Getting married and having two children
Getting divorced.
Meeting love of my life.
Losing love of my life.

Having kids
Going to university for the first time in my 30s
Going to university for the third time in my 40s in a different country
Changing career (and countries again) at 50
My other half’s terminal illness diagnosis

Marrying and having 2 great sons
Divorce and new partner
Buying my own house outright
My grandmother dying
Retirement

Leaving home in Wales at 18 to live in London - a whole new world full of new experiences
Realising in my 50s that no matter how successful I was or how well I succeeded at whatever I was doing I would never make my mother proud of me - freed me from years of feeling like a failure
Working with people with mental impairments - dementias, brain damage, PTDS - helped me appreciate what I have
Finally understanding that our three grown children were settled and happy in their families and would let me know if they needed me - gave me license to start a new adventure and spend more time away
Lockdown - plenty of time to think and rest and plan

Becoming a Christian (in my 30s)
Marrying
Having children
Health deteriorating
Divorcing

Getting married
Having our 2 boys
Getting my degree
Being estranged by youngest son
Moving to a new home to begin a new life following our estrangement

Getting married to a lovely man.

Having our children - MOnica, whilst I think your mother was right to a degree, our own children are very special.

Being estranged from my mother and, consequently, my brothers.

Volunteering

DH Retiring.

A dreadful motorcycle accident when I was 18.
My father dying at the age of 48 - I was 25 when he died
The birth of my first child, a daughter
A miscarriage before second child was born
Getting my OU degree twenty years after starting it! (I did other things in between!)

Marrying a decent man
Having our daughter
Having our granddaughter
Losing my hair to alopecia sent my life in a direction I neither expected nor wanted
Retiring

1)) When I was finally taken home after being ill-treated by nuns in 1930s from which I still bear the scars
2)) Living through the horrors of the London Blitz after being bombed out twice and machine gunned twice.
3)) Going through the war years after being evacuated.
4)) Meeting my lovely hubby at the age of 15 in 1945 and married to him in 1949.
5)) Having my lovely family and learning how to use a computer 20 years ago when I was 72 and finding many lovely cyber friends from worldwide when I put my WW2 website up.

Marrying the love of my life
Giving birth to my 2 children
Passing my driving test
Getting over a terrible illness
Cuddling my grandchildren when they were born.

Marrying DH
Having 3 wonderful children
Finding a job I loved
Grandchildren /great grand children
Being given a terminal health diagnosis.

Marrying
Births of my children.
DH dying at age 51
Births of my grandchildren.
Buying my house on my own.

Getting Married
Having my wonderful 3 children
My grandson born
Being diagnosed with osteoporosis and coeliac disease
My grandson being seriously ill and autistic.

Getting married It also meant moving to a different part of the country.

Having my 3 lovely daughters

Losing my wonderful Mum before she had a chance to see her Grandchildren grow up.

Realising that I didn’t have to believe in ‘God’.

Working on a hospital ward as a health care assistant and later in a school as teaching support. I certainly saw life from all angles!

Moving from Wales to England age 10
Going to art school. Age 16
Married age 21
Two children.
Move back to Wales

As a child from a very poor family passing my 11 plus and going to a very good grammar school.
Going to Cornwall for a holiday and being asked by a girl working there if we would let her friend stay in our caravan. Through her I met my future husband: strangely enough they posted a photo of themselves on Facebook today which made me think what a turning point in my life that was.
Hitching a lift in Cornwall a few months later and being picked up by a man in a Bentley who said ‘ I’ve just bought a Manor House: would you like a flat there for £4 a week’.
Packing in my local government job and moving to Cornwall.
Meeting my future husband there.
Everything else in my life just stemmed from those events.