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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
s/o Missed Opportunities (a la the moving thread)
Do you feel like you have missed out on something by making the choices in life you have made? Do you regret that choice, or just sort of wish it could be both ways? Care to share?
EDD 9/24/13
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
Re: s/o Missed Opportunities (a la the moving thread)
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
So many...but things happen for a reason. And if I'd done things different I probably wouldn't be with DH. Also, I wouldn't be where I am today financially, career-wise, etc.
Mostly, I wish I hadn't rushed through school so fast and had taken more time to study abroad, travel and live in different places. I will encourage my kids to work hard and have goals, but take it slow and enjoy their 20's...you have your whole life to work and get married and be a grown up.
i missed dating...i went from serious relationship to serious relationship that i married. i was 17 when i started dating my ex...and we were together until i was 20...one month later, i started dating H..and we immediately were "serious"... i never got to "play the field" with options, have boys buy me gifts/flowers, take me out on nice dinners, etc. h (and my ex) bought me small gifts here and there for birthdays and christmas, etc, or nice dinners for occasions, but since we were serious right away, i had told him to save the money and put it toward our wedding/house/kids/etc.
i kinda wish i had it....for like a year or so... but i don't think i'd be the same person i am right now if i had......so i guess it works. just something i gotta deal with, and can't really go back to try.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
Not moving related, but a few months before I met W, I ended up hitting it off with one of ladies who worked the front desk at the place I get my hair cut. Being a gentleman I gave her my number rather than the other way around. But, by the time I went back, she had quit and disappeared and no one had contact info for her...
I sort of wonder how my life would have turned out if I had managed to run into her. (Not that I'm complaining about how life turned out!).
1st year anniversary in Victoria with a killer whale topiary!
Sometimes I feel like I missed out on living by myself (w/o any roommates). I was so broke when I graduated from UW at 22 yrs old, I don't know how I could have afforded even a studio apt in Seattle. I moved in with then-BF (now DH) after college, but if I was financially able to I would have gotten my own place.
Things worked out well with DH (obviously), but I feel like I would have been less resentful of not being engaged the 2 1/2 years of living together prior to the proposal. If I lived on my own, the present could have been different and I would be a more independent partner (cooking wise, especially) and less of a b*tchy/impatient GF to DH back in the day (2007 to late 2009).
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♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
I wouldn't change it.
Obviously I would have preferred not to be divorced in my early 20s, but today that is part of who I am. I didn't anticipate spending years getting out from debt that wasn't mine, but I made the sacrifices and did.
I wanted to go to college out of state but wasn't allowed to my first year because I was 17 and my parents were afraid of what I would do if I moved across the country by myself, and rightfully so.
Wow that is a lot of "I wish I had been single longer"
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1st year anniversary in Victoria with a killer whale topiary!
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
This exactly for me. Going through a divorce isn't any fun, but I might not have met DH after.
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Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
I was single most of college. And there weere different guys that I went out w/ or dated. But, there were very few (if any) fancy dinners, flowers or gifts. That's just not what you get from single guys...that only comes after you're in a relationship.
casual relationships, or only serious relationships? are you saying flowers and dinners to someone you're just "seeing" is only in the movies? have i been tricked? because i never had a "real" casual relationship, either, since before my ex, i was too young to have a "real" relationship.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
In my experience, this is totally fake and only happens in the movies. I may have one or two sweet gestures from someone I was seeing casually, but generally it's very casual. Any real romance comes after the relationship is firmly established, and often w/ lots of hints. I think the first time DH did something grand was when he proposed. : )
Maybe someone else has had a different experience? Maybe it's an age thing too, watching my mom date again in her 40's and 50's is a totally different thing. Maybe if you were seeing an older man, you'd get this kind of romance?