To ask what age you stopped enjoying going “out out”

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Just that really. I’m 29 and living in the city as a working professional. Up until the last 6 months or so, I guess you could say I’ve very much lived a ‘work hard, play hard’ sort of lifestyle involving a lot of socialising, drinking and late nights out. Over the past few months it’s as though a switch has been flipped and suddenly it’s just no fun anymore. The idea of a cosy night in, or a nice meal out with a couple of drinks and being back at home and in bed by 12pm is far more appealing!

The majority of my friends here in the city around my age are still very much in to the party way of life and are showing no signs of slowing down… so I wondered, when did the switch happen for you?!

Probably early 30's started doing is less often, by late 30's was over it. But I have good friends who have never been into nights out and others now in their 40's who still go out out regularly.

About 30

Mid 50's we go out out every Friday and Saturday without fail and occasionally mid week. Do different things though - gigs, theatre, ballet, quiet pubs, pubs with live music, meals and cinema. We also have a big social circle so lots of parties and special occasions.

Mid 20s. I've been going out since I was 15, was just sick of it after a decade of it.

I somehow read this as you want to maintain your 'height and weight' and was really confused about the effect alcohol has on you...

About 30. Used to be the last one standing and the serial ligger amongst my friends. Literally can’t imagine anything worse now.

Perhaps it will return once the primary school years are over…
I have a few friends with late teens who are enjoying a late revival in their night owl party lives.

@MajorCarolDanvers but after a week of work I was tired in the evenings !
But I have alway liked to go out in the daytime and do stuff then.
So I might have not been going "out out" but I was out doing things.
I seriously have never enjoyed going out in the evenings (except in the middle of summer) - I have always found it a bit odd to be going out so late in the evening. Heading out at a time when I want to be starting to settle down for the night.
But that's me - I think I am a bit odd sometimes 🙂

Late 20s for club nights but I still enjoyed bars. I had a child age 30, and that combined with covid meant I had to give up bars too. I still really love pub evenings, I just can't go with my kids because of bed time.

I'm 45 and still love it. I probably don't do it as often but have a great time everytime I do.

Age 32 and 5months pregnant was still going out out, by 6months pregnant I was done!

It seems my main reason for going out out was to meet a man. When I met DH I lost my motivation. More than happy to stay at home now.

Mid 20s.

The people I hung out with at the time didn’t help.

When social media and selfies took off and it became less about the fun and all about being pulled into photos and posing.

I like being out, I just like doing things that arent hangovers much more.

Late 20s!

27/28, I'd spent a decade living for the weekend, just grew tired of it and decided it was time to crack on with life and have a baby instead.

I’m 35, can’t remember the last time I enjoyed going out out 🙈

I became a single parent aged 27yo and going out out was a lot less fun when I had a baby to get up with the next day.

I'm 43yo and was forced out out for a friends hen do recently and it was hell!! Sticky floors, music awful and too loud, I felt about 100 years older than everyone else...

It's so long ago I can't even remember. If I could remember the last time I went out and magically go back in time I would do it so that I could change my mind and not go out after all.
Going out is bobbins.

I'm 40 next year and still love it.
Like the whole process of it - planning, looking forward to it, getting ready, being out basically everything except the hangovers.

I am 53 and go out once a week, the absolutely longest I can last without going out is 13 days and then I get really twitchy.

Clubbing / mid-late 20s (got married at 28).
pubs - still enjoy if I have a seat (early 50s), there’s food & a fire 😆
don’t like noisy venues cos I have some hearing loss.
House parties - still enjoy, but prefer a brunch than late night affair!

When I wanted to stop was about 18, pretty much as soon as it was legal for me. Lol. But kept going to meet people/socialise with friends etc. When I stopped I thjnk I was about 26. Lost my mum and realised life is too short to bother doing things I don't enjoy.

I started my drinking career a little early, at about age 13-14. Nothing too wild, just round friends' houses. So anyway, the novelty of drunkenness wore off quite quickly. I then clubbed like my life depended on it in my first year of uni, so age 18-19. By the end of my second year of uni, I found clubbing incredibly boring and only went under duress. So I'd say I was done with it by age 20. I have to admit, this may have been influenced by the fact that I met my now-husband at 19.

I like going out in the evening for a meal or for a quiet drink or two. But getting drunk is just not something I enjoy anymore.

I do definitely enjoy letting my hair down and dancing the night away. Especially at a wedding or something like that. But I do it sober, and I like to be in bed by 11

Now I'm 25 with a baby and another on the way. I wouldn't go to a nightclub if you paid me right now. This all may change in a few years I suppose as others here have mentioned happened to them, but I doubt it for me personally.

I'm not sure I ever truly liked it. I loved university (I was on a big campus) where you knew everyone and were having fun dancing with your mates. THEN I would stay out happily til dawn. But pre-then and post-then, not so much. Luckily I am now 42 and don't have to pretend anymore. I value warmth, sleep and my liver far too much to bother with it.

First festival weekend of the year starts Friday, can't wait. I am 50 in less than a fortnight.