What did/do you live about your 40s?

[Anonymous]

Freedom from having to work for money and freedom form painful ex.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50 now. Loved my 40s. Career took off, we had more money. Kids got older and easier.

Start of 50s is a lot rougher. Parents get old, health issues start up. One positive is that I am now very well paid with a flexible career so really concentrating on work was worth it. I also remained very fit so menopause weight gain is happening but not as bad as it could have been.

[Anonymous]

All these people saying more money are giving me hope. We had some growth early-mid thirties but the last five years have stalled. Hoping the 40’s will bring some serious income growth!

I hope DH continues to find me attractive. The pp who said his wife stopped being attractive is scarring me.

[Anonymous]

My kids were older and more independent (I had oldest kid at 24 and youngest at 30) when I was in my 40s. I was able to take up running and cycling and was in the best shape of my life. I was also able to start traveling a lot and to more interesting places with the kids and my husband.

[Anonymous]

I had my kids in my late 30s, 37, 38 so my 40s were spent with toddlers and preschoolers and I started to get severe illnesses from my late 40s onwards. The kids were fantastic, the illnesses, less so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 This is me. I think about my weight all.the.time now, but in my 30s looked good with no effort. Kids are getting older, which means more freedom for everyone, but also really sad to think that I won't get to see these amazing kids daily in just a few years. They're so awesome and interesting.

More money, no financial issues at all. But parents are sick or dying and the same is true of my friends parents.

The stress of working + caring for your kids + trying to care for sick parents who are hours away is a stress like you wouldn't believe. You want to be everywhere, all at once. Until you don't need to be anymore, which is a different kind of stress.

[Anonymous]

A lot more money. Which definitely makes a difference. Don't ever buy the idea that money isn't important. Money greases your way through life and makes you comfortable.

It helps that I have kept myself in shape and I weight the same as I did when I was 22, but body is also getting older and you feel it in different ways. I do still feel healthy but it's a different kind of healthiness than when I was in my 20s and even 30s.

Also care less about superficial and virtue signaling stuff. I don't care what people think of me or my views. Some of it is certainly due to age and realizing what's important and what's not, but some of it is also due to the weirdness of the social and political changes that have occurred in the last 10 years.

Main downside is that parents are now in mid 70s and getting older. Father is not well, which is a shock to us as he was always very healthy and fit and active. Teaches you how unpredictable life is.

[Anonymous]

I love still looking like I'm in my 30s and I am much wiser and kinder than ever before.

[Anonymous]

Having kids and saved the world.