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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you are bothered by this because it triggered something in you: are you unhappy with how you look/present? Do you wish you could change that? I get being annoyed but you seem to imply this happens more than once.[/quote]

No one wants to be called grandma…unless they are a great grandma. Get real.

The psycholodrama folks are trying to make this into us comical. [/quote]

Np. Fact is op could be a grandma.  Since hen is it an insult?  Just laugh and say nope he is my son?[/quote]

40 year olds are not commonly grandparents. [/quote]

In much of America you rarely see 40 year old parents but 40 something grandparents are common.[/quote]

Maybe later 40s. 43 would be pushing it. Regardless, if you look at the original post the man was not super dialed in socially to begin with. [/quote]

You're wrong.  There are many, many parts of the country where the average age for women having their first child is 22:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html  And if you know anything about averages, there will be a lot of families where the mom is younger than 22.  A 43yo grandma may be uncommon in the DC area but it's not at all atypical in some areas.[/quote]

That means there is a ton of teenagers having kids.. I’m completely OK with being wrong but cycle breaking is not a harmful thing. Many young parents can really rock it and pull everything together be successful. But that’s not going to ge the case for all. [/quote]

The point is that a 43 y/o mother of a baby is going to look like a grandmother.[/quote]

Eh, the earlier you start having kids, the faster you appear to age. Just imagine how much older she would look by 43 if she'd had kids at 18.[/quote]

You mean like Reese Witherspoon who looks gorgeous? Keep coping and projecting, sweetie.[/quote]

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