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What was the toughest time in your life? The easiest?

For me, you'd think the toughest time would be when Chris was deployed but I honestly think moving three hours away from all my friends and family this past year was the hardest time. I was lonely, depressed...I had panic attacks and mood swings. As soon as I moved into my apartment a string of bad things kept happening. As for the good, I think the easiest time was when I first met Chris and we were young and in so newly in love. We had after school jobs but that was our only responsibility. I was a cheap date and loved McDonald's so we would just grab burgers and go to his apartment and watch movies with our friends....that and probably when I was a little kid were probably my easiest times. Next!

 Courtney, I'm with you, but although Ian's deployment was hard, I think I had a harder time adapting to college. I hated freshman year of college. I cried every night and went home eveyr weekend. I hated feeling trapped there and being away from my family and friends. I worked on campus so I met some nice people and I got along with my roomate, I just hated living on campus. For me, personally, college is just not all it's cracked up to be. There have been some graet moments and I've learned a lot, but I'm not a drinker so it's not the huge "party all the time" hoopla some people take it to be.

The easiest part of my life was probably when I was so young I don't remember. Eat, poop, sleep. Doesn't get much easier. However, in my memory, the easiest time was probably when I still lived in Ohio. I don't remember anything but playing all of the time with our neighbors and my cousins. WE made forts, performed skits, swam, played on our swingset. I don't remember worrying about anything. That isn't to say there haven't been other GOOD times in my life, I just those days were the easiest.  

The absolute hardest thing in my life to date was when my oldest had open heart surgery at 4 months old and they came out to tell us there was nothing else they could do to for her. I remember the pain I felt thinking that I would never see her again. 

The easiest part of my life so far has been when I was in high school. I was pretty care free back then. Nothing really bothered me and I enjoyed the activities I was getting to do. I was an athletic trainer. I also loved the beach and could go when I wanted. No worries, no responsibilites. 

Toughest:  Losing my grandmother.  My mom had me real young and my grandma took care of me for a long time.  I was really really close to her.  I miss her dearly.

Easiest:  When I lived under my parents roof.  No bills to worry about, no grocery shopping, no budgeting, not working to buy what I needed.

The hardest time in my life so far was the fall semester of my jr. year at college. I didn't have a great time in college overall, but that semester was definitely the worst. I had broken up with my boyfriend of four years that summer, who I had moved to AZ for. So, I was stuck at a college across the country from my friends/family because I lost a lot of friends who took the side of my ex at school. It was the loneliest and most depressing semester - I lived with 3 other girls, 2 in a sorority that went out 5/7 nights of the week.

The easiest part of my life so far was the end of high school, I think. Middle school and early HS I had really bad skin, but I went on Accutane and really felt more attractive at the end of HS. I had a job, but I just had so much free time to hang out with friends...it was amazing.

The hardest time of my life, was just recently. It was losing our baby at 10 weeks, I keep reliving that moment of laying on the ultrasound table and hearing the words "I don't have great news..." and then the D and C surgery the next day with most of the hospital staff being less than sympathetic . I know that I'm a lot further along in coping than I was, but I don't know if I'll ever be over it.

The easiest time in my life had to be the summer of '97. My best friend Melissa and I were way into Hanson and we spent the summer riding our bikes to the store to buy Bop, Tiger Beat, and all those magazines, making up stupid dances, and laying out in the sun. Things were just so much more carefree back then. No bills, deadlines, or drama.

I think one of the toughest times I've had so far was my pregnancy with Breanna . It was horrible and I thought we were gonna lose her a few times. At 26 weeks I started bleeding pretty bad and thought I was gonna lose her. Then having her at 35 weeks and thinking she was gonna have to stay in the hospital for a while but thank god she was fine and came home. Also when she got hospitalized at a year old for 4 days and TJ was in bootcamp. That was an aweful week.

My hardest time was when my mom was battling cancer and I was 13 hours away and then again when she had a collapsed lung, was in the hospital for over a month and I was in Okinawa...both things I felt so helpless

My easiest time was high school, I had it made.  My parents were more hands off but they bought my first car and paid the insurance, I had a great home and food to eat, I had two great jobs.  It was a good time.

 The hardes time in my life was holding my "baby" through chemotherapy.  Hearing she will not live to be more than 5 and if she does she will be very sickly. (She will be twenty three in 15 days) and then having to go through brain surgery with her when she was 11 and again when she was 19. You wish so hard you could take away their pain and you can't.  It sucks!!!

The best times for me were stationed in Hawaii........yes it was far away from home and family and I cried alot, but we were young and poor and we made so much of every minute we had together.  Rick got sent away alot while we were there to include Desert Shield and Desert Storm, but it made me do the growing up I needed to and solidified to foundation of our family.   

Toughest: Has to be when I lost my dad. I was so angry with God and my mom. I blammed it mostly on God and my mom, I used to say it was my moms fault for not loving him enough and I said it was God's fault for not answering prayers. I was really involved in our church when he died and I thought I was giving it my all, I thought that the more I attended and prayed and praised the healthier my dad would become and eventually all that praise to God would pay off with my dad getting better and getting out of the hospital and when he didn't I turned on God. I was pissed off every day after his death. I was such and angry person/teenager. I hated my om for a while. Giving her all the blame. And when she started dating, I was horrible. I talked bad about the man she dated (who she is now married to) I did everything I could to drive him away from my mom, I gave him the hardest time getting close to my mom and us. I had so much anger, and every day after his death was just a chance to torture my mom. Making her feel like she could have done more. It was tough because all I knew was that he died and someone was to blame. I thought that he didn't died judt to died, it had to be someone's fault and in my head it was my moms.

Easiest: Probobly was when I became close to Sergio. He made it easy for me to be happy. He was always trying to get into my head when we first met. And it made me feel like I finally met someone who wanted to know me. He made it easy to smile and let the past go. He knew everything that I went through with my dad and knew how hard it was on me so I think he tried to make it easier for me to be happy. All we did  was hang out, there were days when our date consisted of doing nothing and having a great time. We'd watch our favorite movies and eat mashed potatos at 2 in the morning, every date was hilarious. There was always something funny happening.

This was fun. Good times.... Good times......

 Chrisey

The toughest time in my life was when i was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 17.  I suffered depression, panic attacks (still do) and it was just all around very very rough!  It still is at times.

The easiest time in my life would have to be when i was younger and i had no worries.  The biggest worry was if i was going to have PB&J or Bolgna for lunch.  LOL!  I could go back to those days but at the same time i love my life and where i'm at.  I have overcome alot of things and honestly wouldn't change any of it!

I think the toughest time for me was my first year of law school. I was just so incredibly overwhelmed, it felt like NOTHING was working out. I was having a ton of problems with my parents, my grandfather was really sick, I was having trouble with my finances and affording both school and rent, I hated where Columbia was located and Nate was still living in Jersey while I was all the way up in Morningside Heights, I was working all the time, and school itself was really difficult. It just felt like a struggle to even push through the year and make it til the end.

The easiest? High school was a real breeze for me for the most part. No real responsibility, no worries, none of that. Although while HS was easier, I think college was muuuch better and I enjoyed it more.

im a little late on this...

Toughest- by far was moving to the US. All the struggles my family went through to get us into a better life, living in an empty apartment with only blankets on the floor, no furniture, no money, and not knowing the language. Being taken away from friends and family at such a young age ( 9 ) made me so depressed. I had no friends, all the kids made fun of me, and just the struggle to get used to the country, the culture, and the language.... i hate even thinking about all we went through.. but on the brightside we overcame everthing and just looking at all we have now and what we had before just makes me appreaciate everything i have, especially all my parents went through.

Easiest- was probably meeting joe, and just falling head over heels with him. Going on dates, hanging out, and just getting to know everything about someone. I wish i could just relive our first year together, no worries, no stress, no MC!! lol