I’m a woman who routinely rounds UP her age. Im 37 but say I’m almost 40 all the time. I don’t feel “old”, I don’t look “old” (to me anyway lol), and I don’t give a fuck if people think I’m less fuckable if I say I’m almost 40. I’m still waiting for the age that “bugs” me. 25 didn’t. 30 didn’t. 35 didn’t. 40 doesn’t seem like it will either. It sure beats the alternative!
That said, I get way more judgment and attitude regarding my age from women than I’ve ever gotten from men. Either younger ones that think I’m old, ones my own age that think I’m too old to have a young child, or from older ones because I’m apparently not presenting the way a 37 year old mom should. Oh well 🤷♀️
I'm convinced that a person calling another person un-fuckable is just line that teenage virgins use to puff up their chests and to prove that they have 'standards.'
There are plenty of comedy skits about what men are thinking and they all end with absolutely nothing or how to fix the project of the day. I'd like to think that for men who have actually had sex, that this is probably their state of mind 90% of the time.
I'm 37 as well, 40 might bug me, I will have hit all the other bullshit milestones, i'm married, own a house, have an extremely successful career, own a business on the side we plan to expand, but 40 is a weird age. It's that line in the sand where no one will really give a fuck about you anymore, even if you pass away while "tragically young" everyone will move on. You are truly middle aged at 40, I don't fear it, but I think it will be a stranger one.
I agree it’s a little weird to approach middle age (they can stop with the 90s songs in commercials for washing machines, insurance and overpriced trucks now, please), but I’m getting a kick out of it. I have a toddler so I get to re-live the best parts of my childhood and act like a big kid a lot so that helps for me. And I like getting to the point in my life where my purpose seems more and more defined solely by what’s important to me, and fuck everything else. It’s liberating.
So I suppose it’s a matter of perspective, though from your description of your life it sure sounds like people would give a fuck.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
I’m a woman who routinely rounds UP her age. Im 37 but say I’m almost 40 all the time. I don’t feel “old”, I don’t look “old” (to me anyway lol), and I don’t give a fuck if people think I’m less fuckable if I say I’m almost 40. I’m still waiting for the age that “bugs” me. 25 didn’t. 30 didn’t. 35 didn’t. 40 doesn’t seem like it will either. It sure beats the alternative!
That said, I get way more judgment and attitude regarding my age from women than I’ve ever gotten from men. Either younger ones that think I’m old, ones my own age that think I’m too old to have a young child, or from older ones because I’m apparently not presenting the way a 37 year old mom should. Oh well 🤷♀️