What advice would you give your 35 year old self!

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Just wondering for those of you who are 35+ what advice you would have given yourself at that age looking back?
I find there feels like a lot of pressure of women mid 30s to have life sorted, settled down and all the answers and if you aren’t following the social norm the pressure is worse now than in your 20s?!
I have been in a relationship for 5 years, live with my partner, stepmum to his two children, in a job I feel relatively happy with, yet because I don’t plan to have my own biological children peoples comments are free in coming forward which is starting to get annoying! Surely not everyone has to follow the same path?!

Leave him. Now.

That's the best advice I could have given myself.

Roll with the (many) punches, it'll all be pretty awesome in 5 years time. Slow down, you are iller than you think. It's more than ok to feel feelings, don't try to gloss them over. Stop squandering your cash as therapy, stop stuffing your face as therapy, the answers lie neither in online purchases nor the bottom af a chocolate bar. Life is so much tougher than you evef thought it could be but so are you. You are neither fat nor ugly.