Post your first - it's my anniversary!
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| Thu, 10-01-2009 - 1:58pm |
Ok, so I'm feeling emotional today! I've been thinking about doing this for a few weeks now because I knew that my 1 year anniversary of coming to this board was coming up. Today I decided to find out for sure. This is my first post on this board. It happened on October 17th 2008, which is still a few weeks away, but I thought we could all talk about when we came to this board, what drove us to find it and how far we've come since then. Maybe you could even post your first message to this board!
Here's my first post:
Hey all, new here. We've had 3 years of debt hell. We are almost done, but still have so far to go! I feel as if the world is on my shoulders. It effects every aspect of my life from my weight to my kids to my relationship with my friends and my husband. And the horrible part is that it's a silent problem. I can't talk about this with just anyone. They won't understand. I have a few close friends and my parents that know what I've been through but I think that even they are tired of hearing about it. Sometimes I just want to give up. I wonder...how did we get ourselves into this mess? I hope that I can use this board to help me relieve some stress.
Abbie
I've been an IVillage member since I was 19 and pregnant with my first. That was 11 years ago! I was young and scared and didn't have anyone to talk to, but I found this place (It was called ParentsPlace back then) and they had a Teen Pregnancy Board. They were my lifeline and my saviors for much of my pregnancy and beginnings of young parenthood. So ever since then, I've come to rely on message boards to talk to others about my struggles and my life. I went through the debt journey for a very long time before I decided to find a board. This is the first one I clicked on and this is where I've stayed. I can't say for sure what happened on that day to make me search out a group to talk to. I think I had just run out of people to talk to that were willing to listen. I was feeling alone and alienated.
Since coming here, I've learned so much that I wish I would have known when I first started this debt journey back in 2005. But it's better late than never. Debt used to rule my life, but I have taken my life back!

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Good post, no idea when I joined, I would think well more than a year ago though.
Wow....
I hope Im as successful as you all have been in such a short time....
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