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OMG, Anastasia, I could have written your entire post!

1. Breaking up with my first fiance in time before the wedding. He's now broken up with a (at the time, teenaged) tweaker, works the front desk at a hotel, and has a three-year-old hellion.

2. Going to an out-of-state college where I knew no one and graduating a semester early.

3. Living with my now-DH (and going through major life changes) for 7 years before I married him (see, I told you ours were similar!)

4. Quitting a high-paying stressful job and working part-time for peanuts.

5. Planning to start grad school to get the job that I think will balance my life out perfectly.

KinderFrei, I also studied in Germany!

(I also want to add:
6. Kicking a few nasty habits that shall remain nameless and changing my entire life. I thought I'd never live past 25.

7. Making it through the loss of my father and being strong enough to continue to take care of my mother and sister.)

I love our forum.

This is so interesting. There are a few things that have literally saved my life. I was really depressed in my teens and early 20s, and I am so grateful that I got the help I needed.

Finding an awesome therapist. My therapist is amazing. I didn't trust men at all when I first started going to her, and she helped me so much. I'm still completely stupified that I got to the point where I was able to date, and I'm amazed on a daily basis that I actually got married to a wonderful man. This is no small feat!

Going back to school when I was 24. I dabbled in school right after high school, but I wasn't focused so I just worked for a few years. Two startling events happened in the same month of my 24th year: my close friend was murdered by her bf, and I lost my job. I was totally freaked out, and I wasn't happy with my job anyway. I knew the only way out of dead end jobs, and to get away from my home town, was to go back to school. I needed a complete change of life and scenery.

Sticking with my journalism major, even though people didn't think it would work out for me. I'm really proud of the fact that I've been able to find work and to even thrive somewhat in my field.

Talking to my DH at a work related happy hour. I had a huge crush on him, and didn't think I should date a coworker. But I couldn't help myself. My life is phenomenally better with him in it.

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Hallo Trisharoni! I actually just went back this fall after 15 years (und wie ich Deutschland vermisst hatte!) to show my husband around the area I lived in and see all my old buddies; we had a blast!! Have you been back since you studied there?

--hijack vorbei--

Nein, ich bin seit 8 Jahren nicht dabei. Eines Tages... und dann werde ich Juliana besuchen! She lives in Austria - we've been chatting on Skype so I can practice my German and she practices English. Although I think she's better at English than I am at German by this point.

I love hijacks!

Ja, ich will auch schon wieder hin! Zumindest darf ich nicht noch 15 Jahren warten. Und stimmt--meine Freunde koennen alle jetzt besser Englisch als ich Deutsch. Hoffentlich kannst Du Juliana bald sehen--das waere ja ein Spass!

I love hijacks too! And sorry if we're being rude writing in German

Jsem dobre ceska holka!

Just thought I'd add to the bilingual fun.

write away, and stay on the board posting, I'm just starting french now for my PhD and next year I'll start German so I'll need people to practice with. Shameless selfish need

Trish, we do seem to have similarities, don't we?

Very interesting.

Btw....my husband is German! But he came here as a baby and does not know the language. Too bad because my dad had to learn German because the company he worked got bought out by a German conglomerate. He got promoted and moved and worked in Germany in his 20's.

I know the smallest amount of Czech, like 2 sentences! I crammed when I went on a trip to Prague, though, and did very well, but then promptly forgot it all on the plane home.

My grandma only spoke Czech until she was 5, then her mother refused to let her speak anything but English because she was afraid my grandma wouldn't succeed in school. Consequently, my grandma lost 95% of her native language. (Her mother was born here, so she spoke both Czech and English, but the older my great-great-grandma got, the less English she could speak, so that was why my grandma was taught Czech.)

I love how different yet how similar we all are! We should hold an annual event somewhere... The CFBC National Conference or something. How fun would that be?