What one stupid thing have you said that most negatively impacted your life?

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“I do.”

When I said “I do” to my first wife. It led to a bankruptcy and a very long and difficult 2 years of my life that I wish I could have back.

@hawaii_jake. I’ve felt your pain.

I’m still young and I don’t think there is anything I have said yet that has negatively impacted my life.

“No, we broke up”
“You make me happy”
“I only want to go to one school”
“I guess this is good bye”
There are many things I’ve said that have had a very bad impact.

They but they don’t come anywhere close to the things I didn’t say….

OOOooopppsss!

“They… don’t come anywhere close to the things I didn’t say…”

QFT.

Only one thing? I’ve made a lot of bad decisions and screwed up a lot of things in my life. I can’t say that my life is screwed up however. I’ve rolled up my sleeves and gotten down to business fixing them as they break every time. It’s either that or whine and wait for someone else to do it. That’s never been my style.

@aprilsimnel QTF?

Quoted For Truth! (i.e. I absolutely co-sign and agree with that statement!)

“I love you so much, I just want you to be happy.”

and I wish I could say that I’ve only said that once.

@filmfann Negative?

I spoke stupidly, to my employer’s wife, while visiting their home.

Instead of saying “I love the way you decorate your home and arrange things” I said “Some would call that clutter, but I love it!” duh!

I was young and stupid and in an excited evangelical Christian. I told my best friend that I would never understand why she was Gay. She had been my best friend since I was 3 years old and I drover her away. 30 years later and I still miss Michelle. Now I realize what I did was the most anti Christian thing I could have done. Even if she forgave me, I lost so much when I lost her friendship 30 years ago. I wish she would have been in my children’s lives.

“I’m fine, there is nothing wrong with me.”

Nothing I ever said had any great consequences as far as I know. However, my mom once said something to me that I never forgot no matter how hard I tried and it has kept me emotionally apart from her and totally changed our relationship from there on.

And my brother once shared very bad marriage advice with my husband and since then he and I have had very little to do with him.

I wish I could edit at this late date. I meant to say, “In an excited evangelical Christian phase”

@Zen_Again Ya, usually proceeded by “I want to see other people” or “Why don’t we take a break” or “Will you buy me this?”