“The thought of what I did will forever haunt me.
I can’t forgive myself, and I hope karma comes to me sooner than later.
Here are the responses that prove aging doesn’t make you infallible:
1.
“I racked up credit card debt multiple times.
Now, I feel like I can never get ahead.
“I got scammed out of thousands of dollars from someone I’d met online.
Carlie, 51, UK
3.
“I moved out west to ‘make my own life.’
I spent some of my best years alone, thousands of miles away from the people I love.
I’m 41 now, and most of my family has passed away.
I didn’t get to spend any time with them.”
“Having a kid was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.
geow1234
5.
“I wish I didn’t get involved with a person in a relationship.
I had the ‘I’ll-live-with-my-cat-and-dog-and-use-men-just-for-sex’ mentality.
Well, I fell in love with a man I’d known quite well but apparently not well enough.
Turns out, he’d had a girlfriend…of six years.
I can’t forgive myself, and I hope karma comes to me sooner than later.
I should’ve known better than to get involved with someone in a relationship.”
“Letting a ‘friend’ borrow money and my car.
Instead, he got pulled over in my car and arrested for drug paraphernalia.
The car got impounded.
Needless to say, we’re no longer friends.”
horseytwinkletoes
7.
“Getting sucked into two multi-level marketing schemes!
They were so convincing as to their ease!
Ugh, joining those MLMs wrecked my self-esteem badly.”
“I stole a purse while sitting in church.
The person I’d stolen from had gotten up for a minute, leaving their purse next to me.
The next thing I knew, I was walking out with it!
She saw her stolen purse in our trash inside the kitchen.
Oh, my days.
Anonymous
9.
He’d also said he was divorced and living completely separate from his ex-wife.
Mind you, she’d occasionally come over at night to key his car and slash his tires.
It was a mess, but I was infatuated.
“I’m 65.
It was the fifth time he’d ended our relationship.
The first time he’d ended things was shortly after we met when I was 47.
He’d emailed me saying he was going to Chicago to live with a ‘leather master.’
While difficult, loneliness and living with a cat really is a much more fulfilling experience.”
David, 65, Ohio
11.
“I went into business with a friend without a proper partnership agreement.
We were supposedly building for the long term, so we didn’t take salaries.
I was out several years of work and nearly lost my house.”
I hired the best lawyers money could buy.
My mother had warned me that it would be a mistake and it was.
He also never paid me back.
He told me two months ago that he never wanted to speak to or see me again!
Thanks a lot, bro.
Never, ever, loan money to a family member or pay their legal bills.
Let them suffer the consequences of their actions!”
She declined to marry me, even after she selected an engagement ring for me to purchase.
She’d text me baby names but said she wouldn’t have my children.”
“Not appreciating my parents when I became an adult.
They’re both gone now, and I miss them so much.”
Deb, 59, Indiana
15.
“NEVER LEND MONEY!
At 67, I lent $9,500 to a so-called friend of 30 years.
He was someone I trusted, and there was even a notarized promissory note, too.
Because of that, there were no other assets to go after.
People tell me, ‘He didn’t know he was going to die.’
If that was the case, why did he transfer the house to his brother?
The promissory note isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
16.Last but not least: “I still look back and can’t believe I did this.
I met a man through mutual friends who asked me out.
I said yes, mainly because I felt put on the spot.
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