Did you freak out when you turned 40?!

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Turning 40 this year and feeling a wobbly about it - how did you feel turning 40?!

I think this is what I'm getting at with feeling weird about being 44!

Turning 35 was my worst wobble. Felt scared I'd 'done it all' and there was nothing big to look forward to but it has (10 years on) been a rollercoaster of good and bad.
Nice to get to any age at the end of the day- lucky to be alive and well.

No.

Forty is nothing. My forties were the best time in my whole life.

I didn't mind it, nor my 50th or my 60th.
I've enjoyed my life at whatever age I've been, even the times when it's been a struggle, but I have no regrets.

30 was my crisis birthday, too. I remember vividly feeling that I'd accomplished very little and panicking that it was all too late (of course, it wasn't).

I'm also 40 this year, and whilst I'm not thrilled about that either, in many ways I'll be pleased to see the back of my 30s.

Have you planned anything, OP? I'm planning nights out, a weekend away with DH and probably a spa break on my own. It was only when I started planning for it and looking forward to the things I was going to do that I made peace with the inevitable! 41 will hit me like a sledgehammer, no doubt. . . 😂

30 was worse for me. I had a great party that year but I was in a bad relationship and the cracks were showing.

By 40 I had kicked him out, met and married someone else, and moved home twice.

Turning 40 was amazing for me. It also signified the start of me giving less of a shit about a lot of things that had caused me anxiety in my younger years. 40 was freeing for me in that way.

I got very, very depressed, but only because I wasn’t where I had planned to be life-wise by 40.

I had a 4 year old and a 2 year old when I turned 40. Barely had time to think about let alone worry about it. Turned 60 last year, still not something to worry about. My mother didn’t make it to 60.