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Which one sentence changed your life?

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greennan Tue 23-Oct-18 11:36:41

A friend sent me a link to THIS THREAD on Mumsnet which made for such poignant and thoughtful reading and afterwards I thought it would be really interesting to pose the same question here. So which one sentence changed your life? I will start with a happy one

Will you marry me?

It's worth reading the Mumsnet thread if you have time but definitely have tissues at the ready

HAZBEEN Tue 23-Oct-18 11:43:54

You are pregnant.

BBbevan Tue 23-Oct-18 11:48:31

Another happy one. "I'm pregnant". DH andI were not married then . Both 19 years old. We are still together 53 years later.

Situpstraight1 Tue 23-Oct-18 11:51:12

I have a spare ticket to a Christmas Dance, do you want to come with me?
52 years later, so pleased I said yes.

Lyndylou Tue 23-Oct-18 11:53:18

"Of course girls get paid a third less then the boys. They are just not as good"

First job TSB 1968 - more annoying in that within weeks I was the one trusted to do certain jobs that the boys weren't because I didn't make the mistakes they did. Really spurred me on to prove the patriarchy wrong.

Teetime Tue 23-Oct-18 11:55:12

After years of anxiety and depression I attended an OU Summer School where I first heard the quote 'Nothing matters very much and very little matters at all'.

Chewbacca Tue 23-Oct-18 11:55:24

"I want a divorce".

valeriej43 Tue 23-Oct-18 11:58:24

You have won thelottery!!
It would make such a difference to a lot of lives, not just mine

valeriej43 Tue 23-Oct-18 12:08:30

Ooops. sorry i read it wrong i thought it said which one sentence "would" change your life

Grannyknot Tue 23-Oct-18 12:19:43

BBbevan that is so sweet!

Mine is:

"I've set you up on a blind date with a friend of mine, you'll like him a lot".

Anniebach Tue 23-Oct-18 12:20:06

I’m so very sorry, he is dead

Greyduster Tue 23-Oct-18 12:22:44

Grannyknot that would have been mine, too! And I still like him a lot!

Greyduster Tue 23-Oct-18 12:24:21

Annie ?

greennan Tue 23-Oct-18 12:28:12

Annie flowers

stree Tue 23-Oct-18 12:50:01

Grannyknot....Mine too, other way around.
When she answered the door, I immediately thought, "She`s out of my class" but it was a blind date set up by a mutual friend.
Next month is our 39th wedding anniversary.

gmelon Tue 23-Oct-18 12:58:11

"We have reached a diagnosis you have multiple sclerosis".

MiniMoon Tue 23-Oct-18 12:59:44

"I've got some old finals papers, these questions haven't come up for a while, would you like to go through them?"

Of the seven questions on our finals papers, give of them were the ones we had studied on that ward. I passed and my career was set.?

MiniMoon Tue 23-Oct-18 13:00:25

Five not give.

kittylester Tue 23-Oct-18 13:14:09

Would you like to dance, hic?

Said by a tipsy chap at my office Christmas dance on December 19 1969. He proposed five weeks later after a Burns Night Dinner!

Willow500 Tue 23-Oct-18 13:24:08

In 1985 - I've got the order!

96,000 units to be manufactured within 6 weeks - it turned our business round for the next 16 years and got us this house.

annsixty Tue 23-Oct-18 13:27:38

I have been asked if I would like to take very early retirement and I said yes.

stella1949 Tue 23-Oct-18 14:05:58

"Do you remember me?"

First line of an email I received in 2002, from the fellow who'd been my first boyfriend. I hadn't seen him in 37 years, but yes I did remember him .

We got married in 2008 .

ninathenana Tue 23-Oct-18 14:19:37

"Would you take this back for me"

On holiday in Italy with mum and dad. I'd exchange looks and smiles with a guy holidaying with his cousin. We were on a day trip and he'd bought his mum a handbag and didn't want to carry it.
Still together 46 yrs later.

Alima Tue 23-Oct-18 14:32:37

“I’m sorry, there is nothing more we can do for him”. The doctors about my Dad. He died 46 years ago today. ?

kittylester Tue 23-Oct-18 14:38:39

Alima flowers and for everyone with sad memories.

Some happy memories too, which is lovely.