Post by dancingirl21 on Jan 21, 2022 13:16:45 GMT -5
38. I also don't feel nearly the adult age that I apparently am. I'm the oldest and was 15 when my mom was 38. My oldest is 8. So...different times, I guess.
Post by turkletsmom on Jan 21, 2022 13:20:28 GMT -5
I voted 30s because I don't turn 40 until next week. I'm holding on for as long as I can. My twins are in Pre-K but woman I went to elementary school with just became a grandmother.
38. I think this is probably universal, but I don't feel like what I thought 38 would feel like. I was 14/15 when my mom was 38. My memories of her are...not how I feel now, does that make sense?
I feel this, but partly because my mom’s fashion stopped in 1982, so she was rocking the blue eye shadow and shoulder pads for decades.
Plus my parents had no idea what was happening in the world outside of the news. I don’t think even now they could tell you anything, pop culture-wise, that happened in the 90s or early 2000s.
38. I think this is probably universal, but I don't feel like what I thought 38 would feel like. I was 14/15 when my mom was 38. My memories of her are...not how I feel now, does that make sense?
Yes! My mom was 22 when she had me. My husband is a few years older now than she was when I met him and she seemed much different. I was in my mid-20s so I can remember that time pretty clearly!
She was raised by a lot of older people and I think she probably always seemed “older” than her age. Her father was born in 1914 (he was in his 40s when she was born and he was a single dad) and his parents and his older sister did a lot of her childcare! She had some old timey habits that weren’t quite of her own generation IMO.
She was a big reader and kept up with the news but not technology, I think in part because she never worked in an office and I was in college before everyone really got the internet and home computers. That made her seem older too.
38. I think this is probably universal, but I don't feel like what I thought 38 would feel like. I was 14/15 when my mom was 38. My memories of her are...not how I feel now, does that make sense?
Yes. I am still not completely convinced that I'm the adult in the room. I felt like my parents were so much more grown up than me at this age.
Of course, I was 16/17 when they were my age and they had 2 other kids, so we had very different lifestyles and responsibilities at this age.
I voted I'm in my 30's, but I'll be 40 in June so that feels like a bit of an underestimation.
I’ll also be 40 in June- the 23rd. We should do dinner to celebrate!
Post by thedutchgirl on Jan 21, 2022 14:38:08 GMT -5
I turned 44 one week ago. I find myself baffled by my age a lot. I am 15 weeks pregnant tomorrow, and last night I googled whether I can get a mammogram while pregnant, as I'm overdue for one.
I turn 50 this year. When my mom was my age, I (the youngest of three) was graduating high school, and my sister had already been married for 2 years.
DH and I don't have kids, I've always said that we don't 'age' the same way people who do have kids do, because we don't go through those milestones again. It makes it weird to compare myself to my mom at this age.
I'm sure not having kids is contributing to the not really feeling like an adult. Working from home for 2 years isn't helping either lol I also don't feel like I look like an adult. Not in a "I get carded all the time!" kind of way, because I don't, but just...my style...or something...doesn't feel very adult.
42, but I also spent a good portion of last year when I was still 41, thinking that I was 42 (and putting that down as my age incorrectly on several product surveys), so I'm not to be trusted.
My mom is turning 60 this year and she said that SHE still feels like she is not supposed to be the adult in the room. That there are sometimes that she feels like she is still in her 20s.
I'm 37. When my mom was 37, I was a sophomore in HS (I'm the oldest) and learning to drive. My oldest is 6. I do like having a younger mom, because she and I have a lot in common and she keeps up with what is going on in the world.
38. I think this is probably universal, but I don't feel like what I thought 38 would feel like. I was 14/15 when my mom was 38. My memories of her are...not how I feel now, does that make sense?
Makes complete sense. I felt like my mom was a GROWN UP and had only grown up thoughts. At 46 I still feel like I’m masquerading as an adult and someone is sure to figure it out.
It’s also funny to think that at my age my mom’s kids were 21 and 18 and I have a 6 y/o. Sometimes I still can’t believe that I’m in charge of raising another human!
My mom is turning 60 this year and she said that SHE still feels like she is not supposed to be the adult in the room. That there are sometimes that she feels like she is still in her 20s.
I'm 37. When my mom was 37, I was a sophomore in HS (I'm the oldest) and learning to drive. My oldest is 6. I do like having a younger mom, because she and I have a lot in common and she keeps up with what is going on in the world.
My mom is 61 and was saying recently that she feels like a very young 61 compared to her own mother, and that her mother was old at 61. She does seem younger to me than my grandmother was at the same age, looking back.
It seems like subsequent generations often feel "younger" than the previous ones even at the same chronological age.
38. I think this is probably universal, but I don't feel like what I thought 38 would feel like. I was 14/15 when my mom was 38. My memories of her are...not how I feel now, does that make sense?
100%
I also feel like women "of our age" now aren't necessarily pushed/painted to be "old" like they used to be. Fashion is better. SO much better, thank god. I'm 43. When I was 13/14, my mom was 40, and there's no way I'd be caught dead in any of my mother's clothes, including in an emergency. Requisite 1993 teacher wear of long denim/corduroy jumpers, vests, and turtle necks? Hardest of passes.
But my nearly 14 year old regularly swipes my clothes (specifically things I have, um, "grown out" of in recent years). Now, neither she nor I are the pinnacle of fashion, but I got some new boots, and she was like "OOOH! You got me new boots!" No girl, back off, these are mine. But I probably would have gone bare foot rather than wear whatever footwear my mom was wearing in 1993.
My mom was 35 when my twin sister & I were born. We are the youngest of 5 siblings. (I'm the real youngest.. I just let my twin pretend she's the youngest too. ;-)) My twin sister is very anti aging. Apparently once we turned 30 it was all down hill from there. I'm very go with the flow of the wrinkles and gray hairs starting to creep in. *shrug*