Which one sentence changed your life?

"You can only be treated as badly as you let yourself be"

I read it in the problem page of The Sunday Times magazine about 10 years ago. It resonated and it's made me think twice about putting up with any crap from anyone ever since.

"I'm going to the trade show and I'm not coming back" - from my husband after 35 years of marriage.

“Who wants to go to the pier with us”? Said to a circle of 9 girls where I was the last. They all said no and when it came to me I said no then this boy said “Oh but you are coming!” So I said “Alright then”! 50 years married next March!

Gmelon - mine too! Except it was spoken by my daughter aged 38 and with 2 tiny little ones aged 2 and 1. Five years on, thanks to PPMS, ALL of our lives have imploded!!

A happy one - I said to nice boy at work that I wanted to see a film but sister had let me down. "Would you go with me?" he asked. We found we had so much in common and were married for best part of 30 years.
A sad one - DH had been asked lots of questions by a professor in neurology. "After looking at the answers my diagnosis is motor neurone disease. It's terminal, have you any questions?" Stark and business-like - it turned our lives upside down. We had to find a strength we didn't know we had. Heart-breaking.

"Never undervalue your own currency."

Said to me by my tutor during teacher training 50 years ago. Amazing how many different situations it can be applied to.

"If you REALLY want to meet ****(name of famous actor I was obsessing over!), go and do the EST training."

After having twin boys born with EB, and losing them both, I got pregnant again - despite all medical warnings not to have any more children, as there was a 1 in 4 chance that the same defect would be present. (But we were young and brave then.)

I gave birth to a second girl, who I saw just briefly before she was wrapped up and whipped away to be taken to a skin specialist who had been called to the hospital as soon as I went into labour. He was young Australian guy and had been waiting for 9 hours for my baby to be born. (They had to wake him up!)

After the longest time (probably 20 minutes or so) he burst into the labour room with both thumbs up, shouting, "She's perfect!"

My best sentence ever!

(Mind you, we were so lucky to have our first daughter 'perfect' too. But we didn't know it then.)

To AlgeswifeVal, same as my love; 8 weeks from diagnosis to his death at 54. Life is hard ?

Do you fancy coming to see a film tonight? Said by DH the day before my birthday in 1969. Our first date. Engaged a couple of months later, married in 1972 and together until he died earlier this year.

You should join the WRNS, (not the WRAF as I had planned). Took the advice and have been married for 48 years to a matelot. Without that suggestion I wouldn’t have my lovely children and grandchildren, and the country would be deprived of a police officer and a paramedic!

Greengran well done to your daughter. I'm sure you're very proud of her. I did do a foundation course afterwards, got a great result but decided not to go. My decision.

Thought I was commenting to an earlier person.

Same here. We were 17 and 19 and this summer celebrated our 58th Anniversary

My Dad (who was also my teacher) to the visiting school doctor at the end of a medical check up,”My wife and I think she is overweight.”
Thus began a lifetime of dieting. I was 10.

'I want to spend the rest of my life with you', said to me after two weeks of dating, been together 44 years and married for 40 yrs still happy and very much in love.

Recovering from having my tonsils removed, my father came into my bedroom at 9am waving a letter and said "Which grammar school would you like to go to?" It was 1959 and I'd passed the 11+.

@GabriellaG Facebook wasn't around in 2002. Could have been Friends Reunited - that's how an old schoolfriend of mine tracked me down in 2003.

Six months before we married (second marriage for both) husband to be said “I’m not going to kiss you anymore”. There had been no problems for the two and a half years we’d known each other before. I was devastated, even went to the dentist to see if I had a problem! I married him as I loved him and hoped he’d change his mind. Thirteen years later......not one kiss.

To my Daughter living in America, having to tell her her Dad had just died, she was pregnant at the time.There was no way to soften the blow, I will NEVER forget that moment, neither will she! Tears arent far away as I write this.

I was 13...and my school policy was... and I quote ... ‘ girls have to stop doing science in this year, and started doing domestic science, so they can look after their husbands’

The last words my husband spoke to me -" I'm trying to put this pain to the back of my head so that I can go back to sleep". He died a few hours later because of a brain haemorrhage.

'That's your son crying'

In A and E after my 11 month old son had been rushed in in respiratory arrest and taken away to see if they could resuscitate him. They got him going as I was at the reception desk trying to give his details to register him, and the receptionist heard him. 41 years later he is still doing fine!

The confirmation my husband had passed away this March 2018. The longer sentence ever is "a physical life without him"

Stella1949
How did he come by your email address? I presume your fb privacy settings don't show your maiden name.