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Forget middle class - when are you middle AGED?

58 replies

harrisey · 31/08/2006 23:43

My dh has just referred to us as 'middle aged' (well in fact I was reading the 'relationships' bit and he said he was amazed at how much a bunch of middle aged women talked about sex!
I say I am 'only' 35 and not middle aged at all. He says having a mortgage, 3 children and a professsional career makes you middle aged, so at 35 and 36 we are a middle aged couple.
Help! Sort this one out! I am not middle aged!

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CountessDracula · 31/08/2006 23:44

bollocks

50 I say these days

bubble99 · 31/08/2006 23:44

40 is the new 30, apparently.

hunkermunker · 31/08/2006 23:44

By that logic, are people with fewer than three children ever middle-aged?

HyacinthB · 31/08/2006 23:45

Fingers in ears...I'm not listening, I'm not listening.

GO AWAY - this is too close to home!

Heathcliffscathy · 31/08/2006 23:45

countess, we are so middle aged. get with the programme.

myturn · 31/08/2006 23:46

45 to 50.

I am nowhere ready to be classed as middle aged....

CountessDracula · 31/08/2006 23:49

you may very well be sophable

I on the other hand am not

fistfullofnappies · 31/08/2006 23:52

middle aged - no,outraged!
Ill be middle aged when I look at the Canda range in C&A, and think that looks stylish.

Or when I can wear white slacks, because my children are all grown up.

bubble99 · 31/08/2006 23:56

Wow! You must be old, fistfullofnappies. Didn't C&A go out of business years ago?

cat64 · 31/08/2006 23:59

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ghosty · 01/09/2006 00:01

At 36 I know I am not middleaged ... definitely not ...
But somehow I feel I am on that slippery slope when I see some young lads trying to run across the road but are failing miserably because their ridiculous trousers hanging down below their bums are hampering their progress. I find myself shaking my head thinking, "Honestly, what DO they think they look like?"

myturn · 01/09/2006 00:05

Lol ghosty. I KNEW you were the same age as me! (See children's programmes thread).

I have started telling the girls to turn down their music as it is 'just a noise' [shame]

myturn · 01/09/2006 00:06

Drat!

ghosty · 01/09/2006 00:08

On that slippery slope to 40 hey myturn??

notasheep · 01/09/2006 00:11

its all in the brain

myturn · 01/09/2006 00:12

I'm gliding gracefully towards it with open arms ghosty

(And if you believe that you'll believe anything..)

ghosty · 01/09/2006 00:12

he he he

Tortington · 01/09/2006 01:18

so we are living longer?

your midle aged at 40. no matter which way one twists it.

desperateSCOUSEwife · 01/09/2006 07:42

agree with notasheep

it is all in the mind

If you want to allow yourself to go down the twinset and pearls route
fine

but me

never

MrsFio · 01/09/2006 07:53

My Mum is 50, hang on i will just ring her and see if she is middle aged......

wartywarthog · 01/09/2006 07:57

somewhere around the 70's i think.

MrsFio · 01/09/2006 08:05

oh she definately is, I can just tell by her tone...

fistfullofnappies · 01/09/2006 08:30

lol bubble theyre still alive and kicking in France and Germany.

no, Im young young young

joelallie · 01/09/2006 08:31

I agree with Ghosty. When you start tutting at younger fashions is probably the beginning of the end....

Having said that I don't really care. I'm 41 now and my 40th birthday was much happier than my 18th.

SueW · 01/09/2006 08:48

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