What is middle aged to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I seriously have no clue what you’re babbling about. Go back and read your sentence and try punctuation and break it into actual coherent sentences.

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Wow, who pee’d on your Cheerios this morning PP…..??! 😠
The OP is/was not “babbling” at all - he/she was only asking a question.

If you are to stupid to realize this > then you are even dumber than you sound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:45. It's, very generously, middle of one's age. Elderly is anyone over 60.

You may think 60 is elderly now but trust me you won't when you are 60.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:45. It's, very generously, middle of one's age. Elderly is anyone over 60.

You may think 60 is elderly now but trust me you won't when you are 60.

barack obama is 60. I still see him as the young president we had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is a bit specific to individual people, but the period between having little kids and retiring is a good proxy.

My sister and I are two years apart in age. But, she had her last kid at 29 and I had my last kid at 43. She is now an empty nester and I have a 3 year old. We are both middle aged, but our middle age looks very different. She spent a few hours babysitting for me a couple of months ago and she needed a nap afterwards. She is probably in better shape than me because she has more time to work out, but mentally she is no longer able to tolerate the tedium of little kids that I deal with every day. In that sense, I am not yet middle aged because I can’t move on to that mental stage yet while my sister can embrace it.

That's not how it works. At 46, you are middle-aged. It's not dependant on how old your kids are. Having your kids late simply means you had your kids late. It has nothing to do with the stage of life you are in.

[Anonymous]

45-65

[Anonymous]

The start of "middle aged" will always be five years beyond my current age.

[Anonymous]

Middle-age means when you are halfway through your life cycle.

Since the life expectancy here (in the U.S.) is currently around eighty yrs. old - most people consider 40 to be middle-aged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it is a bit specific to individual people, but the period between having little kids and retiring is a good proxy.

My sister and I are two years apart in age. But, she had her last kid at 29 and I had my last kid at 43. She is now an empty nester and I have a 3 year old. We are both middle aged, but our middle age looks very different. She spent a few hours babysitting for me a couple of months ago and she needed a nap afterwards. She is probably in better shape than me because she has more time to work out, but mentally she is no longer able to tolerate the tedium of little kids that I deal with every day. In that sense, I am not yet middle aged because I can’t move on to that mental stage yet while my sister can embrace it.

That's not how it works. At 46, you are middle-aged. It's not dependant on how old your kids are. Having your kids late simply means you had your kids late. It has nothing to do with the stage of life you are in.

I disagree, but maybe it’s about how you use the word and what you are trying to describe. If you are describing a state of being, sure it’s the middle years of your life, so roughly 35-55. If you are describing a mindset, it’s when you settle in and are no longer making big life decisions like who to marry or how many children to have - that is a little more flexible. If you are describing a style - when you no longer follow the trends or go to the places considered hip and cool by the young- people hit that phase at all different ages. I feel like I became “middle aged” about 10 years before my same age best friend.

Language is rarely so uninteresting or inflexible that a concept only has one meaning or valence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:45. It's, very generously, middle of one's age. Elderly is anyone over 60.

We don't call people over 60 elderly, come on! 60 is the new 50....

60-70 is middle aged

[Anonymous]

The number increases as I increase.

I'm 54 and feel well in middle age. Not past it. I'm in a great spot in my career, and very fit. So it all feels great. Not sure when that will change, but also not worrying about it. I bike with people up in their 70s who are amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it is a bit specific to individual people, but the period between having little kids and retiring is a good proxy.

My sister and I are two years apart in age. But, she had her last kid at 29 and I had my last kid at 43. She is now an empty nester and I have a 3 year old. We are both middle aged, but our middle age looks very different. She spent a few hours babysitting for me a couple of months ago and she needed a nap afterwards. She is probably in better shape than me because she has more time to work out, but mentally she is no longer able to tolerate the tedium of little kids that I deal with every day. In that sense, I am not yet middle aged because I can’t move on to that mental stage yet while my sister can embrace it.

That's not how it works. At 46, you are middle-aged. It's not dependant on how old your kids are. Having your kids late simply means you had your kids late. It has nothing to do with the stage of life you are in.

My uncle is 91 and has a much younger girlfriend of 86. He travels, jogs, hits the gym, lives on the beach in California, golfs, dances, travels a lot. He only retired at 80. He has no plans to die. I don’t consider him elderly at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I seriously have no clue what you’re babbling about. Go back and read your sentence and try punctuation and break it into actual coherent sentences.

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Wow, who pee’d on your Cheerios this morning PP…..??! 😠
The OP is/was not “babbling” at all - he/she was only asking a question.

If you are to stupid to realize this > then you are even dumber than you sound.

NP. You are also barely literate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:45. It's, very generously, middle of one's age. Elderly is anyone over 60.

I think elderly is 70+ but it also depends on the person. The so called "elderly" in my family can still clean your clock!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:45. It's, very generously, middle of one's age. Elderly is anyone over 60.

You may think 60 is elderly now but trust me you won't when you are 60.

barack obama is 60. I still see him as the young president we had.

Ok, 60 is still elderly despite some people’s hang ups. You are starting the last third of your life. You can collect social security at 62 etc.

[Anonymous]

40-60