What Were the Top Three Lessons you Learned the Hard Way?

My first lesson would be trusting too easy, I was always so fast to giving trust that I let my walls down. By doing so I let myself be vulnerable and easily distracted from my goals in life. I let myself think I was “in love” and that he was the one. Trust makes us do things that we wouldn’t normally find ourselves doing. The lesson that I learned the hard way here is that people need to earn trust, they don’t just get it handed over because you “love” them. Because when the going gets hard everything can change in a heartbeat.  My second lesson would be not taking on all the responsibility myself. I have a partner/ husband for a reason, he is here to help me. When I need help I need to ask instead of trying to do everything myself. This will help me with my stress levels. I take on too much and let myself stress out about way more than what I really need to. My third and most hardest lesson that I have learned is that family comes first no matter what. The year before my dad passed he was doing Thanksgiving dinner, and because I couldn’t get off work I didn’t come. Though I didn’t know that would be my last Thanksgiving with him, it just reminds us that we truly don’t know what tomorrow brings. We always learn things in different ways, but sometimes things can leave an impression on us that we won’t ever forget, and these three for sure are mine. The First lesson, led me to my beautiful daughter, so I wouldn’t change everything that came from that lesson. I love my daughter and I love how she has helped me grow in my life. This lesson also led me to my husband, who I love dearly. This will also lead into my second lesson. My husband tries to help me so much, but because of personal experiences it is hard for me sometimes to share the responsibilities of everyday life. Within the last lesson this one might be two in one really. I beat myself up for not choosing my family over work that Thanksgiving. I tell myself of course that I didn’t know that it would be the last. But we will never know that it is the last, we never know what tomorrow will bring and though we see/hear this said almost daily it never sinks in until it has happened to us. Then it feels like a thousand bricks hitting us at one time. I would love to hear about your guys three lessons that you have learned the hard way. As always you can share them or you can privately message me. I look forward to hearing from all of you. I hope you are having a great day, and a wonderful start to a spring!