What did/do you live about your 40s?

[Anonymous]

What did/do you love about being in your 40s?

[Anonymous]

Not much

[Anonymous]

Being past the baby/little kid stage and having more money.

[Anonymous]

Love that I know myself better and make important decisions with confidence.

[Anonymous]

Everything!

My 30s were a blur of taking care of young children. My kids are now all elem school age and I can go away for a weekend and it’s not a big deal. No more diapers, naps, toddlers tantrums. Kids are independent.

I don’t give a F about pleasing people. I was shy and easily pushed around in my youth but now Ive found my voice and stand up for myself and others.

I feel free and strong and sure of myself, in my 40s, way more than I did the previous decades!

[Anonymous]

Had to get an IUD so no more periods.

[Anonymous]

I’m going to get to have sex again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being past the baby/little kid stage and having more money.

Same. We can make large impulse purchases without the guilt.

[Anonymous]

I like most everything about it. Well, maybe except for my body. But that’s minor. I like having teenage kids who are honestly fun and so much easier now. I like being the boss at work. I like having more money (not a lot—I’m a nonprofit boss!). I like having more time.

I do not like that people I love have started dying. That’s definitely the worst the about getting older. I miss feeling invincible.

[Anonymous]

The 40's have been great so far. I'm making a lot more money now than I did in my 30's so when something expensive breaks like the AC unit, I don't have to move money around. As some others mentioned, you really don't give a crap about people pleasing. I've never had firmer boundaries in my life.

[Anonymous]

My 40s were great. We moved into our dream home and made great friends

Out kids were still sweet but not babies and lld much easier.

We started making a lot of money and I started my own very successful biz.

I’m 51 and lots of friends are getting sick, some divorcing 😬

[Anonymous]

It was the last time my wife looked insanely young woman hot. Also, we were able to buy an amazing home that I love.

[Anonymous]

The only thing I don’t like about my forties is increased cancer risk and all the cancer screenings I have to get now.

Otherwise, I prefer my forties to my thirties. I have more money. I feel about the same physically because I’ve had a chronic illness since my twenties so in my twenties and thirties my peers were super healthy whereas I felt crappy and they didn’t understand. Now many of my peers are starting to have health issues so there isn’t as much of a gulf between us.

I spent my thirties stressing out about finding someone to marry and deciding whether or not I should have kids.

Now I’m forty eight and am like, whatever, that ship has sailed, and you know what? I didn’t have kids, I am not married, and yet I’m totally happy, despite society telling me for years that being a unmarried childless woman over forty is a fate worse than death.

[Anonymous]

I strongly disliked my 20s and 30s, but love my 40s! My kids are grown, I'm out of my bad marriage, and I have a lot more freedom, money, and stability.

[Anonymous]

I’m 37 and really look forward to my forties. It seems like a bomb decade.