Totally agree @batch.....never underestimate what peri does to a woman, .....even without young children.
I remember turning 50 and being told to really mind myself looks wise as the difference every 5 years is brutal....from a vanity perspective.
I am one of the lucky women that is well off, choosing not to work outside the home, have money to spend on myself and a decent husband.....and my ffriends are all very similarly well off, some still working in great careers.
We all agree that peri is very hard physically on a woman's looks despite the money. Throw in several teenagers, some have 4 children because we could easily afford to and had the last in their early 40's.
I could afford help and those years were very busy but full of fun and good memories of them all tucked up in bed safely by 8pm.
15 years on and life is different and so busy running around after them, trying to keep them safe, encouraging them to take it easy on the vodka, insisting on collecting them at 3am from a party so they are not in a taxi alone. Definitely more worried about daughters on the above score.
Exhausting.
Fair dues to those who can let them crack on, we are not like that while they are still at home, and still in education.
Its not them, its us being 60+ and trying to do what our parents did a fraction of in their 40's.
Thank goodness I have never had the granny label being given to me, but I definitely have a good decade on some of my youngests parents.
When my youngest was starting primary I was nearly 48, there were young women with their first at 34 or so...its a big difference.
Fortunately I have excellent skin which has definitely helped.