AIBU the three ages of women and their relationships with men?

[IrritatedUser1960]

Puberty: Being fascinated with the opposite sex and being interested in nothing else.

Mid life: Trying to raise a family together and realising eventually that men are bloody useless.

Menopause: Being sick of their shit and wanting to live on your own.

I am convinced of it.

For me the 3 stages are,
Puberty... Romatic dreams of a super hero, knights and their ladies, happily ever afters, dinners for two, midnight strolls hand in hand on tropical beaches.

Young womanhood... watching your mum buying 'a nice bit of cod for your dad's tea' and realising that this is what love becomes over the years. That tokens of love become the ordinary, the commonplace acts of affection and feeling sad somehow.

Menopause... catching yourself doing the same for your man and finally understanding that, 'how you care is what you do'.

BossaDad

Even in humour could you at least try not to promote stereotypes.

Not my experience, thankfully! I was boy crazy as a teen, but I married the boy, and 20 odd years later he is still the best thing ever.
I don't see it changing much for us!

Nope.

Puberty-thought boys were annoying and smelly

Young womanhood -went out with (and married) a bunch of psycho losers

30s- hit sexual peak and had a string of emotionally unavailable younger men for sexual purposes

Mid life-met the right guy.

Didn't you fancy coming back OP and filling us in on the details?

I don't think you're far off the truth, OP.

Women are obsessed with men until they realise how little men actually have to offer. That realisation will hit at different ages.

Cynical? Maybe. Accurate? Wait and see.

I feel sorry for you Op - you obviously have made poor choices throughout your life.

I am convinced of it

Good for you but I do not relate to any of those at all.

Nope...sad that you feel all men are useless. You need to find better men!

Well OP unfortunately I agree with all of those stages!! 😂

BossaDad 😄😄

Fencesitter do you realise how patronising and well, sneering you sound?

So what if this hasn't happened to you. People do make more choices or sometimes it's just bad luck. I've had some very bad relationships but do you know what? I'm not responsible for men being cunts to me. Immediately going 'I feel sorry for you, you've made poor choices' is pretty disgusting. People change in relationships and nobody has a crystal ball to work out what happens in the future.

It's smug and lazy to dismiss the OP as being useless with men.

My experiences:-

Puberty - Crush after crush after crush and believing that each crush was the one and being bereft when the feelings were not reciprocated.

Also allowing boys to treat me like shit because I believe that's just the way it is

Late teens - Learning how to be in proper relationships and enjoying sex

20s - More of the same

30s - Realising that relationships are bloody hard work and marriage, kids and bills really do put a strain on relationships. Sex drive non existent.

40s - Getting it back together again. Sex drive very high and noticing the opposite sex again.

Haven't reached the menopause bit yet!

Haven't hit menopause yet but the rest is true, it dawned on me quite a while ago that I have never been loved by any man who didn't have a hidden agenda

Completely agree! I'm on the last stage and am glad to have lost my desire. Of course if Daryl Dixon knocks on the door, it might be different.

Yes to the first two and already at the third even though I'm nowhere near menopause.

This assumes that all women are heterosexual !

To be fair a lot of women I know are happy to do next to nothing and have there DH working all hours to support their lifestyle.
I think men must have the stress of being the breadwinner all the time.
You see it on here all the time I don't work because DH earns more than I ever could etc etc.
Basically an exscuse to be a SAHM forever even when your kids are grown up.

How about the three ages of men and their relationships with women?

Puberty: Being fascinated with the opposite sex and being interested in nothing else.

Mid life: Working to pay the bills whilst your wife spends all the money and moans all the time

After mid life: Being glad you are shot of the moaning old bag

Think you hit the nail on the head OP.

Puberty: boys one of many things I was interested in

Midlife: relationship with husband one of many things that helped me struggle on

Menopause: relationship with husband one of many things that still makes life interesting

The idea of focusing my whole attention on boys, particularly in puberty and early twenties when there were so many exciting things to discover, would just have seemed alien to me. I fell in love and that was wonderful, but I also learned to live as an adult, I travelled abroad, I found out what I wanted to do in life, I made friends, I learnt lots and lots and lots.

As for this man:

Cricket.

Cricket.

Watching cricket.

Await the 100000

What are you talking abut my husband is an amazing lover , carer and always does the washing up

None are true for me, so far. Not all men are shit or bad, either. My husband does so much for our family and is a great person - definitely not useless at all. I hate that word to describe someone anyway.