A friend of mine recently posted this and it made me think. What was YOUR defining moment that changed your life...
My moment started at the summer of 1995 when my then boyfriend told me after us being together for 3 weeks that he did not want to go back to Scotland. He was an exchange student. I was friends with his flatmates. I was also in the process of getting out of a nasty 3 year live-relationship.
So I said that was fine he could stay with me. I had just gotten my own apartment. I think I told him that he could have a drawer and we'd see how things went. The completion of that moment, January 9th 1996 (US) and February 3, 1996 (UK), that forever changed my life was when 5 months later we got married (twice).
My moment started at the summer of 1995 when my then boyfriend told me after us being together for 3 weeks that he did not want to go back to Scotland. He was an exchange student. I was friends with his flatmates. I was also in the process of getting out of a nasty 3 year live-relationship.
So I said that was fine he could stay with me. I had just gotten my own apartment. I think I told him that he could have a drawer and we'd see how things went. The completion of that moment, January 9th 1996 (US) and February 3, 1996 (UK), that forever changed my life was when 5 months later we got married (twice).
I was 26. He was 20. We had no money. We had no plan. Everyone was SURE we were destined to fail - both family and friends. The only thing I was absolutely sure of, in a way that I have never been sure of anything in my life, was that I loved him. I could not imagine my life with out him. This was a truth that ran deeper than anything else I had ever known.
And here we are now, ten years and 2 and a half kids later.
What/when was YOUR defining moment?