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If you could go back years what would you change in your life. I personally probably have too many to mention, but I would have taken school more serious. I would not have moved back to my hometown after getting out of the military. I would have waited till I was financially stable before getting married and starting a family. I would never have taken up smoking and would have consumed less alcohol. I guess this could go on forever!

Thank you for you service. Like you said there are too many to list off. Maybe if I had been a little tougher in school the other kids would have left me alone.

There are a lot of things I think I would change in my life. One of the things that I might have changed would be not living in the same state as my in-laws. Need to be further away so they can't keep taking advantage of my husband. It has caused a lot of problems over the years.

I don't regret things from my past. I refuse to beat up on myself knowing that I always did the best that I could at the time.

That true Geraldine, but a “what if” post really makes me think.

I'm with you, Geraldine. You can't change the past but hopefully you can learn from it. Wishing you had done something differently is a waste of time and energy.

My mother-in-law, a very wise woman, told me to live without regrets. She said if you consider your options carefully, and make a sound decision, live with it. You don’t know how things will turn out, but believe it was the best decision you could have made at the time.

Candy wrote: "My mother-in-law, a very wise woman, told me to live without regrets. She said if you consider your options carefully, and make a sound decision, live with it. You don’t know how things will turn o..."

That's great advice!

Agree!

I agree. Noboy's perfect & there are bound to be mistakes along the way. Since you can't redo it, there's no use dwelling on them.