To ask what’s made you think “I’m getting old” recently?

Oh, a few months ago I saw someone who looked familiar and thought, "wow, that woman looks like a middle aged version of X from school. Obviously it's not X as that woman is oooold." Of course it WAS X! 🙄 X IS middle aged, as am I.

I forget I'm not a teenager anymore. When I look at photos of myself I feel like the character in Freaky Friday when she wakes up as Jamie Lee Curtis's character "I'm like the crypt keeper!" 🤣. Proper jump scare!

During Covid, I tried to do that thing where you train your hair not to need to be washed every day or every other day. I turned into my bald uncles!

I also spent £300 on varifocals. It was 2 pairs but I've lost one. DH and I had the world's most boring argument this weekend as he'd picked my glasses up by accident and was wearing them, whilst I spent hours looking for them. He's accusing me of losing his 🙄

I have to take my glasses in there now...

I was at my cousin's 21st birthday party in a pub about a month ago.

I found myself thinking....the music's too loud, there should be more seats and thought someone of the outfits on the night were more than a bit skimpy!

I'm only early 40s. I used to love nights like that and wore many the indecently short skirt too. 🫩

Not really being able to get comfy in bed anymore.

There's always a little ache somewhere or I'm just a little bit too hot. I really, really miss that feeling of snuggling up in bed feeling totally relaxed and cosy.

I feel like I'm the oldest or second oldest everywhere I go and I'm still only about half way through life. Where are the people older than me?

I don’t understand half of what my teen says to me or even what music she listens too, it’s just noise

I had "a fall" yesterday. Not a bad one, i went flying over the hoover I'd forgotten was behind me. Anyway, 3 hours later I suddenly felt horribly dizzy which I've put down to the fall & my age related inability to instantly recover from these things.
I'm 39.

Oh good for him 😀

Oh yes and I do the squinting hold it up to the light thing when trying to cook food!

I’m 55

my joints hurt in the morning
I have a nap sometimes
a night on the town leaves me dead for 72 hours
i I have a favourite cardigan

when the first aid instructor said recently ‘we used to say between the nipples but now we say armpits ‘ (CPR) I snorted as it’s the same place for me if I need CPR and I’m braless

my youngest is learning to drive!

id rather stay in than go out

ive stopped running and now go for long walks

Talking about H&M, I'm still wearing a dress with Hennes & Mauritz on the label and I'm sure young people wouldn't even recognise that name.

I peed a little in my pants when I got up to feed the cats rather than wee first when this morning. I just can’t seem to hold it in as much I used to. Perhaps in the last few weeks this has changed.

I can’t sit on the floor without getting on all fours and hold on to something to help me up.

Small print is a no no and has Ben for about 6 months

I’m fat and eat ok and swim 3x a week but fat is sitting there. I’ve given up looking in the mirror - I don’t want to my mother staring back at me

I’m 53 fgs

The first time was realising I was older than all of the Welsh rugby team (to explain: I started watching rugby when the team were about 10 years older than me. Then I got to an age where they were my peers. Now I’m old enough to be their mum 😬

These days it’s the shortness of my arms, I can’t lean far back enough to see things and have had to start taking my glasses with me to the shops so I can read the shopping list.

And joint pain, OMG. I’m so over that already. Really hoping it stops hurting when I pass into post-menopause, because if I live as long as my nana I’m only halfway through life, and that’s a lot of groans to make on getting out of chairs.

My dad would always shout
'Come on Grandad, put your foot down!' when stuck behind slow drivers. He was still saying it up to the day he died when he was 76 with 8 grandchildren of his own.

I’m sure this isn’t true but it’s made me cry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel about 19 mentally. I can keep up with what my teens are talking about, I usually know what is trending etc.

When my DDs refer to me as "cute" it makes me feel about 103! We'll be having a conversation and 18 year old DD1 will say "aw, you're so cute mum! I tell everyone how cute my mum is!" 😂

I used to think that my Grandma was cute. A cute, little old lady. That's how my DDs see me 😭.

I'm only 3 or 4 retirements away from being the oldest in my department. I'm not even THAT old..it's terrifying.

There's always a minor ache or pain SOMEWHERE.

Got varifocals. And can't really get used to them. Take them off to read just like before.

I don't think there's anything the slightest bit U about wanting a table by your chair. (I have one on each side). I mean, where do you put your drinks?

Catching sight of myself in reflection at work I realised I'm a shorter, fatter version of my DAD, but with long hair. Honestly made myself jump 😭

I've never been pretty, but yikes I've aged like milk

I’m now the oldest and ugliest person in team meetings, rather than the youngest most gorgeous one I used to be. Teams (online now) meetings are cruel!

Can't tolerate being drunk anymore - one glass of wine and that is me done 🙃

When I mind my two grandchildren for a couple of hours and then have to lie down in a dark room to recover.

Fine hair on my jawline
Sore stiff joints
Awful stress incontinence 😞
Waking early
Feel more tired
Beginnings of arthritis in joints
Periods even though I don't want more dc.
Feeling ancient in the gym
Not understanding the teen speak my dc use and conversely them not understanding my humour

I know I should be grateful to get older, but getting older still sucks 😔