What age were you happiest?

[Caramel78]

What age were you when you were at your happiest in life?

For me I was very happy as a child until the age of 11. I hated high school and didn’t start to feel happy again until I was about 31 as I had one horrible thing after another happen throughout my 20s.
32 now and feeling like life is good again (well until all this coronavirus crap started)

Being married to my nex were the worst years of my life, so it feels so good every day to be out of that

28. In a big city socialising loads mixing with lots of different people. Had enough life experience which gave me confidence as growing up I always felt like I missed out and didn’t do as much as my peers (my family weren’t well off) but I still felt young and optimistic with plenty of years ahead of me.

16/17 - sixth form years - plenty of independence but few responsibilities

16-18happy days

Late 20's. A period of having left an old (terrible) relationship, being scared, meeting now dh and had the best couple of years just dicking around really. Doing what we wanted when we wanted.

Probably the happiest I've ever been right now (current circumstances not withstanding). Loving parenting teenagers, in the best job I've ever had, still together with DH after 25 years despite some pretty rocky times and having the best sex of my life.

My whole childhood up until I was 16.
17 onwards has been a bit of a rollercoaster my mental health definitely took a turn when I left school.

17 met my husband , was having such a good time , easy life so much excitement and newness

Now, late fifties.

Now. 50s and enjoying my life very much.

Childhood, been downhill from there.

My early 30s, so far. I was managing to work on issues that had crippled me in my late 20s. We were financially more stable, and looking for the ideal place to buy a house. We'd been given (false) hope on new fertility treatments, and there my dreams of having a family had burst into life again, with what felt like a real chance. DH and I were doing great. I had new adult friends and fulfilling work.

In my 30s. Happy with my job, happily single, just me and the cat in my little house.

49

Probably now, but I also had a great childhood especially until the age of 9 when I stopped getting homeschooled and had to start 'normal' school which I hated!

I was happy through the earlier years of primary school, but as I got older and girls got bitchier & cliquier, i was an outsider and didn't have any really good friends through secondary school. My teens were a bit of a low, although it started picking up in sixth form, improved through uni and have got progressively happier since.

Not giving a shit really helps. I cared way too much what others thought in my teens.

Around the time I had my first child (34). I hadn't expected to be a mum, and then I was....

I'm mid-fifties and can honestly say I've always been happy. Couldn't pick a general period when I haven't been, other than the usual boyfriend break-ups back in my 20s, but those bits of angst were very short-lived, really.
I've been lucky.

Definitely not age 12-16. Then it got steadily better and better every year. Then I had a baby on my 37th birthday and it changed. 2 lovely and content years, then 2 very unhappy years due to my cray business partner and working 7 days a week plus 100% childcare. And since got better and better. I'm now 44. Obviously lockdown is weird, but I feel pretty content, just me and 7 year old DS. Although am still working 7 days a week, but I think I'd be bored if I wasn't... probably sounds utterly sad and pathetic! I like being able to spend all this time with DS, feel really lucky.

Other than the year of 2011, I actually don’t ever remember being unhappy. Every part of my life so far has been lovely in different ways.

I’m definitely now the most content I’ve ever been, secure job, gorgeous kids, healthy, own my own house and a happy marriage with a man I adore.

Early 30s so happy

From 40 41 when I ditched toxic family married dh, have brilliant in-laws.

I haven't reached it yet

30 when my divorce came through and i has met lovely man who I then married
Now nearly 35 so hoping that continues

My childhood was happy.
Teenage years were not great at all.
Once I moved away to Uni I started to feel much happier.
But I am honestly very happy now in my thirties. All the things that I thought would make me happy in my twenties - being a size 8, having lots of disposable income, going out regularly, fancy holidays etc, didn’t make me anywhere near as happy as being in my thirties, happily married, two wonderful kids, and no longer a size 8! I’m content and I’m not trying to impress anyone. There a lot to be said for the confidence that comes with age.