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Your biggest regret

I have two on equal footing.
1. Looking at my ex-husbands' phone. (Saw my husbands messages, sexy/flirty ones, got me suspicious, dug and dug deeper and found out my he was deceiving me and he then left me - so regretted looking at his mobile)

2. Sharing a secret with a friend/work bout my one mistake ie a criminal record, ie assault.
(I was provoked by my sisters' ex so I slapped him and he called the police) My pretend friend
shared this secret with another, they told personnel and I lost my job as a cleaner in a hospital for not disclosing the truth.

What regret/s do you have?
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  • 74jax
    74jax Posts: 7,930 Forumite
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    1 - surely your regret is marrying him? not finding out?




    I don't think i have any..... certainly can't be that big as they don't come to mind.
    Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....
  • Comms69
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    I'm guessing the assault was whilst you were working at the hospital - the rules about disclosure are quite strict.


    In any case - my biggest regret. Trying to fix a relationship for 8 years, which to be honest clearly didn't work after the 3 year mark.
  • candygirl
    candygirl Posts: 29,455 Forumite
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    Not listening to my Mum !!! She really did know best:rotfl: :rotfl:
    "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"

    (Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D
  • candygirl wrote: »
    Not listening to my Mum !!! She really did know best:rotfl: :rotfl:

    Listening to my Mum too much! I would have had a completely different life if I had not :(
  • No regrets because I don't believe in ''looking back''. Always felt it's more important to ''keep looking ahead''.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    edited 28 November 2018 at 1:45PM
    Probably mine boils down to - having been far too naive for my own good for far too long.

    I could probably have done with having a hefty dose of cynicism about things way sooner than I did....:cool:

    So these days it's "majoring on doing the best I can in available circumstances" (yep....I've been called a survivor more than once....which I take as a compliment) whilst still maintaining a watching brief so to say for any chances that come along to move my life in a more "ideal for me" direction.
  • Being an introvert and too shy in my teens to the point that I don't have any non-work friends in my 20s
  • comeandgo
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    Not playing more with my children when they were little.
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 36,144 Forumite
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    1) Wasn't it better to know than to continue being deceived?


    2) Your "friend" did the right thing. The mistake was assaulting someone and lying about it.
    I can't argue with this ^^^^.


    The OP's 2nd regret shouldn't be about sharing a secret but about lying to HR.


    Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
  • suejb2
    suejb2 Posts: 1,918 Forumite
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    Reading this post!
    Life is like a bath, the longer you are in it the more wrinkly you become.
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