did it have a profound affect on you or someone you know?
2007-10-21 22:32:56 · 16 answers · asked by ⓑⓐⓨⓢⓐ ™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
My biggest regret is not having children. I spent my younger years with two different men that had several kids in which they paid support on, so of course, they did not want any more children of their own.Now, I am all alone.
2007-10-22 01:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by Harley Lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There will come a time that the regrets turn to acceptance of a wrong choice...when you realize that every decision you made, whether good or bad at the time, has lead you to exactly where you are now. You will have learned to embrace the "where you are now" wholeheartedly, and accept that humans have the capacity for warts as well as angel wings.
Don't despair. Learn to know yourself and you WILL find peace. No matter what.
2007-10-22 07:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't say that I have any real regrets. Any major decisions made came after a lot of prayer and sorting out the pros and cons. Hmmmmm....smoking. I picked it up about 20 years ago after not smoking for 11 years, and I'm still quitting. One of these days it will stick.
2007-10-22 08:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by Lady G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faking a medical 911 and leaving spain early to head back home..it caused me to lose touch with a guy who was on the trip with us...and to this day I still think about him..the night I left he made it the most amazing night I've had....(just by spending time and talkin) and I never spoke to him again...he lives in my city but I cant find him....I often wonder WHAT IF...what would of happened if i would of stayed there the whole month...
2007-10-22 05:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mine was also, not being with my mother when she died. I was in London, we were living there at the time, and she was in Johannesburg. They called to say she had, had a very bad stroke, and I caught the first plane out of London, but did not make it it time. Thank goodness her sister and one of my friends were with her. On the other hand, I wonder sometimes if I could have coped. Having had to been at my father's bedside when he died. I was back from London for 1 week and my late husband's mother died, I was at her side. Two days later my best friend, who was with my mother' when she died. Her husband (such close friends of ours) went down in that plane crash just off the coast of Mauritius. He was on his way back from a business trip in Hong Kong and Taiwan. We felt as if we had been run over by a train. It was an awful period.
2007-10-22 05:56:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
My major regret would have to be not leaving my ex-husband sooner than I did. Do to his abuse with us (my 2 kids and myself), it has done so much damage to all of us that we can't get over it. The damage is just to deep to get rid of it. I was married to him for over 17 years before I had enough nerve to get out. Even then, we had to more or less run for our life.
2007-10-22 17:21:18 · answer #6 · answered by SapphireB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a friend who I spent several hours on the phone with while she was drunk and repeating herself. She never said anything about taking her life.
I was tending to my infant grandson and let the machine take 2 more calls from her.
She shot herself in the head while her teenage daughter went to the bathroom.
Naturally I wonder if I had taken her calls would she have lived.
2007-10-22 08:02:21 · answer #7 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
boy oh boy oh boy
did you get some sad but serious answers
there is only one major regret in my life and that is letting the love of my life go
we weren't married or i never would have
i pray every night that he will come to his senses and realize that we belong together
since we split, he has been married and divorced 4 times
i have been married and divorced 3 times - married now, but wish i wasn't
if he would call and say "leave him, i've finally come to my senses" i would be gone in a heartbeat
2007-10-22 08:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by bassetfreak 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My biggest regret in life.
Not physically being present with my mother as she died in hospital.
I had been there 2 days straight, tired, exhausted, my sister drove me home to have a shower and a sleep, my sister drove back and she died 20 minutes later.
2007-10-22 05:38:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The one thing that sticks in my mind, and I say it quite often even now....I regret not listening to my Mother, especially one thing...if I had it would have saved me a lot of heartache on something that I'm getting now.....
2007-10-22 07:51:03 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ HOPE ♥ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋