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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would tell the 35 year old me to enjoy this time. It may not look like it now but this as good as its going to get for a long time (20 years of downhill, so far). That includes finances, health, fun times and relationships.[/quote]

Why is that? I understand health going downhill, but why the other things (relationships, fun times)?[/quote]

Our careers stalled about that time and our household income never got back to that level. The grind of [b]taking care of aging/dying parents, challenging kids and finances in the toilet [/b]add stress to just about everything. There are moments that are wonderful but the overall landscape generally sucks.[/quote]

FWIW - I'm not looking for them now, but there are studies that suggest that the forties, the years when for many of us kids, aging parents, and career stagnation coincide, are when people are at their most stressed and unhappy. For a lot of people, happiness declines when we have kids, hits a low at around our mid-forties, and starts increasing again in our fifties. Hope you may be coming out of the worst of it, PP.[/quote]

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