to not get why saying you wish you'd met earlier is a bad thing?

[littlesongbird]

Have seen posters on here & elsewhere saying it's a red flag if this is said. But I don't understand why really, if you meet someone and you're not in the first flush of youth shall we say, isn't it normal to be a little wistful about hoe it would be to have met when you were younger and less world-weary cynical ?

I've never seen someone on Mumsnet say that.

Nope, have never seen anyone say that 'wish we'd met earlier' this is a red flag.

Of course there's nothing wrong with it. Madness.