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Approaching middle age and my personality is changing considerably. Is this common?

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MiddleAgeApproaches · 07/10/2023 14:56

I know that everyone's personality changes to an extent throughout their life and I know plenty of women in their 60s and also elderly people who are far more outgoing and active than me, not that it'd be difficult but I wondered if many people have experienced similar changes?

I'm 39 and in the past year or so I've gone from being a real night owl to going to sleep at 10 at the latest and waking up at 6:30 or 7 at weekends. My taste in music has changed, I still like metal and hard rock but now I'm listening to far more old pop, soul and disco. Autumn used to be my favourite season now I despise it and long for Summer. I'm starting to prefer vegetarian and vegan dishes.There are other examples but I don't want to bore you with them i just feel as though I've changed in so many ways over the past year or two.

Of course I don't expect to remain static but I just wondered if it's common to experience so many changes at once as middle age approaches.

TIA

OP posts:
toadasoda · 08/10/2023 11:57

I think its normal for changes to happen gradually. I feel much the same person but my friend was like you OP, it seemed to change overnight. She stopped doing what she used to enjoy and for a while acted really odd but when she just came out and said I don't like going to restaurants anymore etc everyone respected it.

@OctoblocksAssemble I'm sorry to hear life is so tough right now

OctoblocksAssemble · 08/10/2023 16:31

Thanks @toadasoda , I shouldn't complain really, my life objectively isn't terrible. I'm just paying the price for wasting my youth and energy on fun rather than sensible things like education and career building. It doesn't help that my lovely mum has a degenerative illness, which makes it hard to contemplate the future with much joy.

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