Which one sentence changed your life?

Smileless2012 that's truly devastating and I feel for you.x

"The treatment didn't work - we estimate he has 8 weeks left." (The consultant about my DH's cancer - he actually survived 6 months).

Another which didn't change my life but now brings me comfort. Discussing it with DH he hugged me and said "I have no regrets".

Me- is everything okay?
Son - no, not really Mum....

The rest is history - but my life changed forever after that phone call ?

Reading all these has brought tears to my eyes. So much joy and sadness in a few sentences.
I have a fair few sad ones, but will give a cheerful one.
"Mum! J....... has offered to donate some of her eggs to me!"

DD had finally met the man of her dreams rather late in life, only to discover that she was highly unlikely to have a baby as her ovaries were "getting past it"

Thanks to the most wonderful gift that a friend could give, she gave birth to a lovely baby girl, last year, at the age of 44.

Only death or divorce will get you out of here.
(I chose divorce)

Can you light my fire please.....I was hopeless at lighting coal fires.....now we are two sons and 3 grandchildren on. He's still lighting my fire!!!?

'Love has to stop somewhere short of suicide' - I read it in a magazine and that's was the point I decided to divorce my abusive, philandering husband. I had reached rock bottom and finally started climbing up the other side with my two young children and the help of my parents.

I’m sorry but your husband has Frontotemporal Dementia. Aged 57. Still causes my body to shudder at the memory. He’s now 61 and in a care home. Changed everyone’s lives that day.

"Try putting your trust in me and take it out on the next B*****d if I fail you," to my new boyfriend after another argument brought on by my lack of trust. I did and 25 years later I haven't been disappointed.

“Your Grandma has died in an accident”. I was six, the daughter of a single mum, living in a tenement in the east end of Glasgow. Granma had lived with her bachelor son, so my mum and I moved in with Uncle Willie to be his housekeeper. He then decided his city flat was too small for us all so we moved out to the suburbs. He took me climbing and hill walking at weekends and thus began my love of the countryside. I followed it through by marrying a farmer and living on a remote hill farm. A far cry from my tenement upbringing.....I may still have been there...but for that sad sentence.

"I'm afraid we have found something."

Surgeon telling me he'd found a tumour in my breast. That was in 2004 and here I still am!

“They’re c**p - you will do them again and keep on doing them til you f******g get them right.”
My then fiancé re Christmas Day roast potatoes which I was (trying) to cook for my parents. At that moment I knew the wedding was off and I thank my lucky stars every day that I couldn’t roast potatoes!

"It's a boy."

Alternatively: 1st January 1986: 'We need to talk'. And what a cliché that is!

Merry16 that sounds so painful, a stomach- churning moment.
Our children never stop making us worry

Really hard to choose just one as I have had quite an up and down life.
First husband
“I have been a bit friendly with a girl at work and her husband has found out”
Of course friendly really meant full on affair.
Second husband
“I don’t think I love you anymore”
Because he was having an affair with my close friend.
Also the ones everyone dreads getting when people close to you die
“your Mum has just passed away”
“we have found your Dad dead in his armchair”
“sorry your sister has just lost her battle with cancer”
I think my favourite ones though have been the twice I have been told
“You have a baby girl”

'It's a healthy boy/girl'
Five sentences, each one years apart and each one from the midwife who delivered each of my children.
My life was and is enriched and enhanced by their arrivals.

'Anyone can get a degree it just takes will power and hard work' Said to me when I was 38 and didn't think I was clever enough for a university course. OU was brilliant and changed my life.

GrannyIsland
Behind every cloud...
So glad there was a happy ending.

"He's gone into cardiac arrest ..."

A lady I met in Corfu in the 70s said to me."You ought to put a bit of value on yourself my dear." After I'd told her I'd wasted 2 1/2 years on a man messing me around.i did just that and never looked back.x

Caro57, what a lucky escape. Gabriella, I can relate to that although one year apart 5 times. ? Love them as I do, I needed big gaps between my children. Hats off to you.

icanhandthemback


No...years apart not 1 year apart.
Gaps of 4y3m/5y6m/2y5m/4y10m.

Our police liaison officers coming to our apartment to tell us ‘your son is dead’?

Thank you EllanVillan you're very kind.