What's your life stage at 40.

[Oreyt]

It's a mad age really I think. Some could have a 22 year old. Some might have a newborn. Some are happy childless. Some could still be trying.

I'm 40 with a 12 and 14 year old.
Married 10 years. Together 18.
Never had a career.

41, 20th wedding anniversary early next year. Children 18 & 12, plus step grandchildren 7, 6, 6 & newborn! It’s very strange that some friends have children and babies younger than my (step) grandchildren (hate referring to them as step, but you can see people processing the information that they are not my children when I say I’m grandma.

At 40 i’d been with my partner 8 years, had bought our first house couple years before. 5 years later still in said house very happily. No kids for us. I do have a new happier job though!

Mortgage for another 10/12 years

So should be mortgage free by early fifties 🤞 🤞 🤞

Mid 40s, one adult teen & one primary aged. Divorced. Decent career. Both parents dead. Social life is okay.

40 with a 9 and 4 year old, married with a mortgage and I have a job, did have a career pre children but now just a job that fits around the children

Me too!

40 with two adult and one 16year old, and a home schooling 7 year old.
for the first time in my life I've found my tribe and found myself, Happy In my home and I'm Content.

Also the longest time I've ever been without a man (maybe there is a correlation...)

Married for 16 years with a 15, 13 and 8 year old. Still in the profession I qualified in at 21, though wish I wasn’t!

I had a newborn and a career. It was a very up and down time.

I’m not far off 40. When I’m 40 I’ll have kids turning 14 and 11. I’m married and enjoy my job most of the time so I’m happy with where I’m at. We have a giant mortgage though. No chance of paying it off before 60

At 40, I was divorced and living with my daughter, 16 and my partner 65 in my own house with my own mortgage. 40s were not great until I was 45 and my partner died and I realised how much he had pushed me down in my life. I’ve just turned 50, I have a new partner with young children and life is fabulous.

I had a newborn and a preschooler, my own business, a pretty hefty mortgage, a lovely husband.

It is a funny age. I could be my child’s teacher’s mum.

I was 40 this year. Married 15yrs. Got an 11yr old, 7yr old and a baby. I love it but I feel too old doing all the sleepless nights all over again 🤣 the big age gap does have benefits but I found it easier 10yrs ago with a baby than now. Work part time self employed and live in London currently renovating a Victorian property ☺️

I'll be 40 in 2 years. I've been married for 6 years, one DC (4) and after lots of soul searching probably won't have any more. I'm reaching a real crossroads with my professional path which has taken me down a difficult road that I think I want to get out of but I'm not sure how (think very specific skill set, quite institutionalised). I'm hoping that the next 2 years will be ones where I manage to reinvent myself professionally.
On the plus side, with DC growing I'm finding room for loads of hobbies and new interesting things in my life (maybe they'd have to fall by the wayside if I got a new job though because my current one is very flexible 🤔🤔).

It is strange. I had a newborn at 40, while a few of my friends were celebrating their children turning 18 and in one case, 22!

Married fifteen years, happily. Two mid-to-upper primary kids. Enjoying my second career and doing well in it. Very much enjoying this stage of life where the kids are less dependent and more real people and I'm well out of the baby fug. Life is very busy but DH and I are equal parents and we both get to pursue our own interests, and indeed increasingly we can share them with the kids and do more adventurous travel.

At 40 I was widowed with two primary aged children. Career had been blown out of the water by life events.

At 40 I was divorced, with 2 kids aged 14 and 11, owned my home, good job, casually dating and just about to meet the love of my life.

What skin care are we all using?? 40 has been the what when I notice my skin looking different and I don’t like it

I'm 35 but when I turn 40 my kids will be 12 and 8 and I'll have been married to their dad for 9 years. I'm a sahm but plan on finding a part time job when youngest starts school too

42 (43 next month)

Children are 22, 17 and 14

Grandson is 4 (the eldest)

Married for the second time 10 weeks ago

Working semi part time (30 hours a week) DH works away, we book holidays and enjoy ourselves now the children are older and they can go off to their dads. 22 year isn't at home anymore

At 40 I had 9, 8, and 4 year olds. I had just gone back to uni to do a post-graduate course for a career change out of teaching, and was working full time on top of that.

Oh I have a career that I love. I retrained in my 30's (NICU nurse)

I'm 40 today. DD is 4. Mid way through a divorce so will be taking on a mortgage myself once family home is sold. We're currently living with my parents. I love my job but very full on and it would be nice to earn more!

When I was 40 I was married with three DC aged 4, 6 and 8. I had been a SAHM for several years, but I went back to work that year (when my youngest started school).