I've got some big (life changing) changes to be made..coming up, what was the "biggest step" that you've ever made?

So far, my biggest step was moving away from home at 18 and living on my own. I moved to a city about 6 hours away from my parent’s and I didn’t know anyone.
I only got homesick once, on the 2nd night of being there. I cried the whole night. I was terrified. Never happened again after that though.
It was the best decision ever.

Btw, good luck to you. :)

My biggest steps were: getting married, choosing to have children, confronting an abuser, and leaving a job that was toxic for me. The least stressful was probably choosing to have children since I waited til I was good and ready (and didn’t know shit about how hard it would be.) The others all caused varying degrees of anxiety; sleepless nights, racing pulse, the works. All worked out for the best and were good decisions to make.

Moving from one province to another was quite significant to me, but probably because of the change it made. Not sure if it altered my life anymore than if i had stayed, but it felt right to me, anyway.
Going to college is another. If I don’t fuckup maybe I can do something I wanna do instead of working in hotels and bars alla time.
Now if I could just stop drinking so much. >_>

I would have to say when I, with my husband and two year old son, moved away from Colorado, where our entire family lived and went to a place we had never been before, with no job, and very little money. It was a fine adventure, and I was too excited to even think about being scared. We found jobs within days, and loved our California adventure. We never looked back, but continued to keep in touch.

Poor Hubby, took a job with a street crew, and the first day on the job, they tried teaching him how to use a pot-hole, jumping jack tamper and it jumped up and knocked out his two front teeth and broke his nose and his glasses. He went on workers disability for several months after that.

Try not to do all of those things at one time! Each of those is a major stressor, even if the changes are positive.

So be kind to yourself and give yourself time to adjust in between.

This doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but it was really scary at the time… last year, I was sick for months and nothing seemed to help. Finally, it was suggested to me that I try a fairly new kind of medication. There are a lot of risks involved, but I was running out of options; I went on it. I was quite nervous about it, but so far I haven’t had any kind of bad reaction to it, and it helped my problems immensely, so I’m glad I decided to go on it.

Having kids was it by far and this fall I am buying the company I work for…big time stuff for sure.

Getting pregnant. I’m almost 40 and very set in my ways. I know that this will change everything about who I am and what I do in life. Come this fall, there will be this new little human around who will be my top priority for the next 18 years at least. I’m used to doing my own thing—even though I’m married. My husband and I like to play video games and watch movies all night. I can’t imagine what life will be like a year from now.

Getting married. I married a Marine, so I moved from the middle of the US to the east coast, far from family and friends.

@dee1313 Wow, how did that work out?

Well, its been a little over a year, and we’re doing good. My family will be visiting this month, his this summer. He’s never had to go overseas, so we’ve never had to deal with a long deployment, though when we did finally get married, it was a year after he went to boot camp (aka a year since i’d really been able to see him, except for a couple weeks after boot camp and the week he came home to get married). That year apart was enough!

Its nice to talk to family on skype, though even with it, we both still talk to our moms on the phone more often. My dad and I aren’t much for phone people, so we get on Xbox live and play with each other and chat that way. We miss them, and our friends, but facebook helps us keep in touch with friends. Other than that, the radio stations where we are suck. :P He grew up an army brat, so he’s used to it, and I just seem to have adjusted really well (though I’m young, I was very ready to be on my own). We’d both still like to go home more than once a year (my job doesn’t give me much for time off).