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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the entitled young moms on this forum will make terrible old women. [/quote]
Amen to that. It is like they can't hear themselves. They are writing about doing exact same things they complain about older women! All the time. How to punish my 4 year old, why my 9 year old is not listening to ME, my neighbor is not a good mom, my DH doesn't do what I want and how I want, so I became crafty and find the ways to do it all my way...I yelled at my kids for nothing, why am I so angry? We even had one who was smart enough to realize she was turning into her mom. Newsflash people, you already are strange just not as old. You think all you 40 year old brand new moms are young? Ha, not so much, you already are strange older women. Hypocrites.[/quote]

I think the point is, everyone can relate to a lot of dynamics (including the hardships of motherhood that you described, or how lonely it can be for a single 20/30something as others pair off, or marriage challenges), but few people can relate to the specific dynamic the OP was talking about: people who insert themselves in to the lives of grown adults, stomp on reasonable boundaries, stick their noses in to things that are just not their business.

Unlike OP, I don't think "older women" as a universal group act like this. But like OP, I think it is very strange that some people (including some older women) do. I will say that of the nosiest and most intrusive people I actually know in real life, the majority of them are older women. So yes, I do wonder--is there something about getting to be an older woman, especially an older mother or grandmother, that lends itself to intrusiveness? (Loneliness? Fear of losing importance in family life? Fear of being forgotten?)[/quote]

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