33, is it a special age?

Unfortunately not a great time for me:
I was in an abusive marriage (left him twice - 2nd time for good thankfully)
Navigating separating from my abusive husband and the confusion that followed straight after it
Car accident in which I broke a vertebra in my back (still got back pain from it a year and a half later)

I turn 35 this year and can safely say, 34/35 are better/going to be better than 33!

Not really I gave birth for the first time just before I turned 33 and I had PND so felt like shite.

I think I was happiest at 30-33, life was falling into place. I achieved alot the year I turned 30 and DD was a very happy easy going child. DD is still very lovely but the start of high school was challenging what were quirks became problematic and an autism diagnosis later I worry about her alot now. Whilst she is ok I have to think carefully about the things we do, when we do them, if it's going to be noisy, if she's going to need time on the following day to chill etc it's very low-key compared to many but I definitely get decision/responsibility fatigue now which wasnt as much of a problem when she was younger.

Currently 33 and pregnant. Will have had my first child before I turn 34 so yeah, I'd say I'm pretty happy! I think 30 is when I finally actually felt like a 'grown up'. Same house, same job, same relationship but just in my self I felt like a reached a level of maturity I hadn't been in previously.

It was a good age for me. I'd been with my lovely dh 5 years, had a lovely baby and would still have 14 years with dh until he died. (Same age as me)

I've been happy at most ages, I wouldn't say 33 was especially so.

At 33 , I got it together with my current partner, left my unhappy marriage and made loads of new friends (at a fitness activity I started) many of whom I am still very close with 15 years later. It was a very happy age.

Very happy. Didn't have kids til 36 so was happy til then (half joking)

But who said the thing you are reading? If the answer is 'a random on the internet who doesn't spell very well and thinks feathers in gardens are messages from angels', then you've got your answer, haven't you?

I had my first child at 33 so felt happy and settled
By contrast at 30 I was longterm single and lonely so not very happy but everyone's different.

Yeah tbh I'd be back at 16, living in a squat in Holland with my best mates, working random jobs and out every weekend.

I'd take that over 33!

Said by whom? Frequent studies of various robustness get reported in the press - but they usually seem to be older = happier.

33 was a shit time for me - late miscarriage, cheating husband 🤷🏻‍♀️

As a sweeping generalisation on the reasons though, 30-32 was a good time.

• had been through several promotions at work so had money in my pocket for first time
• but just a few years too early for all that money to go on childcare
• vague idea that I’d like kids but wasn’t into the sub fertility / IVF life
• felt l was in a long term relationship- it’s an age for marriage not divorce
• career trajectory going up, with retirement too far away to feel jaded that I was stuck working for decades, and too early to be overly worried about finding retirement
• lots of freedom - no child or parent responsibilities

I've never heard this as being a thing?

I was pretty happy at 33, ditched my abusive ex two years prior, had a great social life, good job and had just met DH.

It was definitely my parents' happiest age as they'd just had me 😅

I am currently 33 and very happy.

I'm still young though, I hope to continue to be very happy as I get older, and hopefully this isn't it and I'll be happier still in the future!

If I were to believe in a ‘soul’ age, I think it’d be the age we are in our dreams, when we sleep. So for me that’d be around 16. Also a happy time,

Ha, nope! My happiest age was 22-24. In second place is 37/38.

33 was pretty rubbish.

The beginning and the end of my 30s have been absolutely awful. Hoping that life truly does begin at 40!

I got married at 33 so it was a really good year.
These blanket statements always come apart pretty quickly though don't they.
Like horoscopes.

Who on earth said this??
I was happy I guess, I was living in the far east with my son and having a great time.
Now I’m doing something similar in Europe. I’m not less happy now. In fact I think I’m happier because I’m older and have no fucks to give. I like my body more. I am more accepting of things that I cannot control. I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. My career is at its peak.

Id say it’s hard for 33 to be the best time as usually there are so many trying factors on us as women at that age.

It was a totally magical age for me, career apogee and met DH.

I’ve never heard it said that 33 is a particularly happy age but yes, for me it’s all been uphill since 30. Surely it depends on many factors though and will be different for everyone

I don’t think it’s a particularly special age.

I had a three yo (who was and remains fabulous) was in a bad marriage, and had a very full on and difficult job.

I did have more energy than I now have at 45 though!

I’m now divorced, have 15 and 10 yos who are both amazing, and a different full on and difficult job. But it’s all better without a horrible man dragging me down.

I was very happy but definitely realising my life couldn't carry on working and partying as I had been for years

2 years later I had my DS at 35 and life went in a different direction which was great as most of my friends were doing the same