What were the turning points of your life?

Going to grammar school.
My parents buying me my first guitar.
The bands I was in late teens early 80s.
Meeting my wife.
My dad dying.
My son & daughter being born.
Moving job in 91.
Being in NYC on 9/11.
Rehab 2004.
My mum dying.
Redundancy in 2010.
New job 2011.
Illness 2017.
Retiring.

My first love, marriage, motherhood, divorce, moving, marriage, another child, and what I can only describe as the emotional withdrawal of my husband. Each changed me quite a lot.

Hmm ! This'll be interesting ! Let's see...

Precocious puberty at 9.
Being a medical 'Guinea-pig' for the next year.
My parents separation and divorce at 10
Having to walk 3 miles to school and back at 11 for 6 years.
Working in a tough neighbourhood in East London at 18.
Getting mugged late at night in a subway tunnel coming home from work one night.
Working voluntarily on a kids summer playscheme 5 years in a row. Gave me the drive to follow a career in social work.
Being one of the few guys working in a children's homes back in the 80's.
Losing my job the first time due to budget cuts.
Meeting the woman i would marry three years later.
Becoming a Dad.
Absorbing physical abuse for many years.
Being beaten unconscious.
Time spent in hospital recovering afterwards.
Re-learning how to speak and move again afterwards.
Re-living the damn thing through therapy for six months afterwards.
Being a sole-carer-single-parent.
Having to go to Crown Court and face questions and lies and destruction of my character from my wife's Barrister for two weeks.
Knowing that she was sent to jail as a result.
Bringing up three children almost single handedly.
Watching my Father lose more and more of his mind until he had nothing left.
Trying to balance being a part-time carer for my Mother while trying to keep a job going where many rely on you to help teens keep their sanity !

Going to school.
Learning to play tennis.
Having sex for the first time.
Quitting smoking as a teen.
Becoming an alcoholic and illegal drug user.
Having gay sex for the first time.
Dropping out of school.
Quitting ilegal drugs.
Going back to school.
Meeting my wife/getting married.
Graduating from law school/working as an attorney.
My dad dying.
Being in NYC on 9/11/2001.
My mom dying.
Having the company I’d worked for for 20 years go bankrupt.
New job with people from my old job.
Retiring.

My last year of college taught me how brutal the world really is towards people who don't look or function the same as everyone else.

Meeting my husband taught me that there was still good left on this god forsaken planet, after all.

Leaving school and getting together with my boyfriend

My first heartbreak. My first mental breakdown.

My adoption , my career path and education, my marriage , my son

My latest one is cutting my narcissistic father and his clone of a wife out of my life for good.

The decades...20,30,40 & so on....It's not like I stood in front of the mirror and said "what happened?"...but as I've aged, your prioritize, deal w/the aging process, sort out what's important and what's not...and more importantly - you realize who your friends are! :)

Ages 8, 11, 16.

All three connected to the same person.

The most recent was getting married.

graduating.

I had a lot. When I turned 21, that changed my life the most because I lost two family members and learned how the world was.

I had to behave smart and be mature as I had a lot of responsibilities on my shoulder.

The most drastic was haging a baby, prematurely

Losing my dad, life since hasn't been the same

2017 I lost the weight I had gained and felt like I had control over my life again for once