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To be annoyed my friends are old before their time!

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Springchicken03 · 06/06/2022 12:04

37F here, and this is something that’s really getting my goat lately.

A few of my friends (some in particular) are moaning that they’re ‘old’ - for example ‘couldn’t wait to get home for a cuppa by 8pm, I’m so old!’ Or ‘Mum on the school run is 26, I’m so old!’ Etc etc. It is every time we speak and it’s wearing me down.

AIBU to think that the only thing that makes you old is when you start droaning on about it?

People should do what they want with their evenings it’s not like I’m out clubbing or pubbing either but we are in our thirties for
goodness sake, not eighties!

OP posts:
WouldBeGood · 08/06/2022 22:39

@Brandnewwoman i want a doh who’s not bloody snoozing 🤣

mintybobs · 09/06/2022 08:22

pixie5121 · 08/06/2022 22:02

Get to the doctor because a holiday in Orlando (presumably Disney) is exhausting?

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Definitely. You shouldnt be that exhausted at age 29 lol. If you are exhausted by life at that age there may be something up with iron levels or thyroid etc

5128gap · 09/06/2022 09:14

A holiday in Orlando is exhausting. Early starts (often awake by 4am in the first week due to jet lag) 12 hour days walking miles at pace (to fit everything in you have to get a move on!) around enormous theme parks in the boiling Florida sun and humidity. Huge meals of junk food, crowds, queues, constant stimulus and noise then the readjustment to the time difference when you're home. I don't know anyone who hasn't come back exhausted!

LeeMucklowesCurtains · 09/06/2022 09:20

5128gap · 09/06/2022 09:14

A holiday in Orlando is exhausting. Early starts (often awake by 4am in the first week due to jet lag) 12 hour days walking miles at pace (to fit everything in you have to get a move on!) around enormous theme parks in the boiling Florida sun and humidity. Huge meals of junk food, crowds, queues, constant stimulus and noise then the readjustment to the time difference when you're home. I don't know anyone who hasn't come back exhausted!

I sometimes watch Disney vloggers (I have no idea why I do this, I don’t even like Disney 🤣), and it exhausts me just watching their Disney/Universal holidays.

That is no holiday! It’s more like a two week endurance exercise! I’d be on my knees.

Lampzade · 28/11/2022 08:54

AngelinaFibres · 06/06/2022 13:28

I felt old in my thirties and early forties. The years with teens were hard. They were perfectly normal teens but the constant eating everything in sight, wanting lifts everywhere, slamming doors ,GCSEs, A levels , Uni angst were very draining. I started to feel young again when my youngest left for Uni. They are late 20s now and I feel reborn really. We can go where we want, when we want. I can unpack the food shopping without it being raided as I do it.We have far more disposable income and privacy to be a couple rather than parents. They invite us to stay and we get to do lots of things with our new grandson who is 10 minutes away. I didn't ever want to do clubbing but other things ( cinema, meals , things with friends, going to London) have all come back now the chdren are happily settled in their own lives. It's a phase Op. Your time of feeling old will come and then pass ,before you really are old.

Same here
When my dc went off to university I felt a sense of freedom.
I started to go out more , do more exercise , started to learn another language.
Op you are just going through a phase . It will get better
Then again, I love staying in with a hot chocolate and trashy tv.

xJ0y · 29/11/2022 07:55

I had babies at 32 and 35. I was obsessed with sleep. It was all I thought about for years.
Felt better and younger in my 40s

sandgrown · 10/12/2022 08:25

My friend is 10 years younger than me but is in her pyjamas by 8pm most nights . I often don’t finish work until 8pm . I have asked her to go out on New Years Eve as we are both on our own but she wants to go out at teatime and home by 9 pm!

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