Which one sentence changed your life?

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

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

"It's a boy."

“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!

"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!

“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.

"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.

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.

'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.

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!!!?

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

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.

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

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

"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".

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

i have been looking after a 16 year old dog with dementia for 18 months, it has the usual related problems with the
condition, i have gone between periods of considering euthanasia mostly due to my frustrations and being tied down.I saw a tv prog on a charity looking after old sick animals, they were asked why don't you put them down the answer was we don't put people down, as long as we treat them with care and value why should we? the time is obvious when the time beckons to euthanase.I realised if i do things out of love then its easy. My caring has been transformed and my dog has more peace about her, love is better for us both.

'You have cancer'

This is very trite compared to most of you, but it did change my life. Coming to the UK had been my dream all my life, but after arriving in my 40's I still had the babbling mouth of an American. One day at the pub, a nice man interrupted me (when I took a breath) and said "My dear, sometimes less is more!" The penny immediately dropped and I thought carefully before I spoke from there on.

The first sentence of a song - "Grandma, we love you" - played over the phone to us - to announce the wonderful (and unforseen) news of a pending arrival....

After divorcing my 2nd husband for mental cruelty, who nearly cleaned me out with his drinking etc I worked like a Trojan, achieved promotions at work and was able to buy a beautiful house. A friend of a friend approached me a few years later and said “ what you have been thro and what you have achieved, you are truly an inspiration to all women” ... I cried !!

'You'll never get a degree!' I made sure I did, and now I have two!!

You've been a good and loyal wife, but I want more.

Your husband has just died.

Having dropped DH at the hospital at 7am for a gastroscopy and being told to collect him at 2pm, I received a phone call from him at 10.30 to say ‘Can you come back, the doctor wants to speak to you’.

My heart sank. They had found he had oesophageal cancer and he died a year after diagnosis.

My world changed forever.

Yes, you do have multiple sclerosis

Mine too, Kathsue