33, is it a special age?

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Were you happy at 33, at your happiest around this age-30-33? Curious as it’s said to possibly be a time when people were/are the happiest

Great age for me, seconded onto a specialist project which has done wonders for my career, got married and then fell pregnant before turning 34

I was busy and happy, I had three DC, two at school and a toddler. I had some lovely mum friends and loved my house.
However I am happier now, I’m mid 50’s.

No.
33 was an absolutely crap age for me. I'd just lost my dad, only days before my birthday, totally out of the blue, and I was in a job that was absolutely WRECKING my mental health.
I'd say 28-34 were, in hindsight, the worst and most difficult of my life.
I'm 39 now, and absolutely thriving! Generally loving life and really happy.

I was at a very very low at 30-31. Around 33-34 things started looking up but didn’t really turn till 36-7

18 and late 20s/early 30s were good times for me. My 40s have been rubbish with divorce, lockdown, health issues, perimenopause, redundancy threat etc.

Considering the starting point of the thread, bringing actual data to the question may be fruitless. However, repeated studies have found the happiness/age curve is U shaped. From around 20 it starts to decline, reaching a low point in middle age, then picking up again in the 50s to peak in the 60s before dropping back a bit in later old age.

So no, 33 is not (on average) the happiest you will be. Nor is it the lowest point. It's a not particularly special point on the downward curve.

Not really. I had 2 children more children. One at 33 and one at 34. I should have stuck to one!

No, it was the age my most serious relationship to date started falling apart. It ended a year later when I was 34.

32 I was very happy.

I was probably happiest at 29 when I was living carefree, enjoyed my job and had a pretty active social life for the first time in years. I’m now 32 with children and a lot more stress. Love my little family but wouldn’t say I’m the happiest and most relaxed that I’ve ever been.

I wasn't that happy at 33. In my forties though I feel much happier.

I've never heard of it being a particularly special age. For me I was very happy. I'd been accepted onto a funded doctorate course (for me dream career), I was happily married, 1 dc, and was the fittest I'd ever been.

@fiskalina same for me!
Met dh at 29. Fell madly in love. Brilliant place career wise. Got married at 33. Life was full of wonder & beauty & possibility! It was one of my golden ages

25 / 26 was another.

33 was my worst time. Many many reasons. My ds was incredibly difficult and we were going through that slow and horrifying realisation that something was wrong developmentally. I had my second miscarriage. Money was tight. My mum was dead. I felt absolutely shit and was rapidly gaining weight. By 36 I had 2 healthy newborns, ds was thriving in school with a much lesser diagnosis than feared and I had lost 3 stone and was on thyroid meds.

I presume the significance of the year is Jesus death at 33.

I was happy at 33. I had a two year old and was pregnant with my second..Still had my career, was about to go on maternity leave again. We moved house. Had lots of friends. Very happy with my husband. It was a good time. I don't know if I'd pick it as my best, but thinking back I was financially secure, healthy and loved. I'd defo happily go back there.

Not at all, I was much happier at 24/25 when I was a SAHM to my toddlers.
At 33 I'd been back at work teaching full time for a few years with a 10 year old and a 7 year old.
Much happier again now the children are in their late teens, i get good quality time with them and I don't feel so guilty about the amount of work I do.
In short, I loved my 20s at home with my small children, my 30s were the worst balancing work and childcare, and the associated guilt but I'm loving my 40s freedom but still time with my now older children.

I heard this donkeys years ago. Funnily enough 33 ended up being my happiest time as I (finally) gave birth to my beautiful dc!!

Don’t tell me that! That’s me now! Does it only go downhill? 🙁

Nope, not for me. I got way happier as I approached 40, thanks to DH and DC. I probably thought I was fairly happy at the time, but it was a fairly shit time tbh.

I’m 34 now. Nice house, 3 kids and no more to come, I’m retraining within my passion, happy marriage. At 33 we were working on the house and I had no direction so I’d say I’m happier now but overall very happy at 33. Also KEENLY aware that for our family, the worst is absolutely definitely still to come, as touch wood we have been immeasurably lucky thus far.

33 was probably one of my worst years but only because my kids were all very young and quite tricky then and my husband was rarely around.

Oh Jesus no massive fertility struggles. Lots of miscarriages going through IVF.

Materially amazing tho, DH a high earner and I was on a really good salary, beautiful house.

I don't remember anything particular about 33.

No, I had young kids, worked full-time and a lousy husband. Much happier in my early 20s and now in my 40s. Mainly because I have got rid of the lousy husband I guess.

I had my 1st baby at 33 so I guess I was super happy. Aside from that my brother has been through the most traumatic experience a human could go through, I was so sad for him and this sadness made me not look forward to the birth of my baby as I should so I guess the age 33 doesn't define happiness in particular

Was in the trenches of a nasty divorce, so no!!