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Is 40 old or not?
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Anonymous
This is probably a very silly question but this is an off-topic area. I cannot believe it, just cannot digest that I will be turning 40 in 2010. I don't feel this age and it is almost painful to think that 40 year old is me   !!!! I wonder how others perceive 40. Funny thing I could not care less about turning 30 and was totally fine with my age until now.
I also wonder if you feel young, how old your DC(s) are. |
Anonymous
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It depends on your perspective of course! When you are 19 it's old. 33; not so much.
Nowadays, 40 is our second adolescence.  Esp women have a new freedom and confidence perhaps we didn't have 20 years ago. And most of us still look pretty good, with some hair dye and wrinkle cream.
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Anonymous
| No way- I just turned 30 and am a stepmom and am planning to become a bioparent around 37- my whole plan is that I'll still look at hot at 40.... Here's hoping it comes to fruition! |
Anonymous
Freedom? I cannot imagine being free unless you are child free or the children are adults which I don't think is common for 40 year old DCUMs 
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Anonymous
| I just heard that 50 is the new 35 and I'm going with that. |
Anonymous
| It sounds old, but I don't feel old! |
Anonymous
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It's all about perspective, really. Although your health insurance premiums might not agree.
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Anonymous
| I'm in the same boat - turning 40 this year that is. I am in better shape and happier than at any other time in my life. No, I don't feel old! |
Anonymous
| I am 48 so 40 sounds young to me. Now 50 may be another story! |
Anonymous
| Calendar age is just a number. Its all about how you fell and I do not feel old and will be turning 40 in november and having a baby to boot! |
Anonymous
I must say I had my child at almost 40 and I think it makes me feel "younger" than I would if I weren't doing all the toddler stuff these days. |
Anonymous
| I'm 42 and my husband is 50. Our kids are 8 and 4. I do feel old, some days; at least my body feels old. A lot of the moms and dads of our kids' friends are in their 30s. But, mentally I still feel like I just graduated from college. I do wonder why my mother's face is looking out at the mirror at me, some days. (And why her voice is inhabiting my body, when I talk to the kids.) |
Anonymous
| I think the term is "middle-aged." I used to work for a company that hired a lot of young people and I felt way older then than I do now. To them 33 was old. Some of them came from my alma mater and were intrigued to hear how it was on campus "in the old days" waaaay back in the early 90s. Now that my workplace has changed strategies and I work with mostly people my age, I don't feel the generation gap so much. I've got to admit, I didn't know who Taylor Swift was when the whole Kanye West thing broke. That made me feel old. I think I'll be much more freaked about 50 than 40. |
Anonymous
You might want to reconsider this. Not to be a party-pooper, but fertility drops off dramatically at age 37. I had 3 kids very easily in my early 30s. Started trying for #4 at age 38 and am now approaching the one-year mark with no success and not sure if it will ever happen. So, I'm almost 40 and I'm not sure if I still look "hot" but I do look pretty fit and youthful. Regardless of how young I look, though, my eggs are 39 years old & there's no getting around that. Don't get me wrong, I think older moms rock. It's great to have a baby at 40 (or later) when you have so much life experience and wisdom that younger moms may not have. And for some people it's not a choice to wait, it's just a matter of when you are at the point of being able to welcome a child into your life. But you also have to be lucky to have a baby at this age - not everyone can. Maybe you'll get pregnant on your first try at 37 - I sincerely hope you do. But if you don't, and you are now with the partner with whom you want to have children, you may find yourself regretting that you waited when you could have started a couple of years earlier. |
Anonymous
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If you die at 80, 40 is considered middle aged.
I am 43 and hoping to live until 100. So I've got a few good years left before I hit the middle period of my life. |