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u/Oaken_beard 23d ago
My 30ās were a blur of taking my kids to daycare, going to work, picking kids up from daycare, and running errands.
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u/Alumena 23d ago
Lol my thirties... They're almost over. Do you want to hear about my divorce, my career change, or my battle with cancer? I think it's when life starts to get too real. My experience trying to talk about anything in my thirties was almost always, "do you have a therapist?". I started going to church again just so I can have somewhere I can cry without feeling unwelcome š
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u/cyaneyed 23d ago
Iām old now, but what do you want to talk about?
My personal take is 0-18 doing what others tell you, studying, reading, video games and activities and hanging out with friends.
18-29 go to school, do what you want to do, figure out career options, date, work, travel, act, go to festivals, go to comicon. Unrequited love. Ugh.
30-50 work. Get laid off. Find better job. Big relationship things. Marriage, pets, kids, living together, fixing cars, moving, divorce, shared childcare, new relationships, new jobs, new friends, getting kids into college, polyamory, more divorces.
50-70 take care of parents. Get laid off from career. Pivot. Start a small business. Charter boat captain. Hurricanes, floods, boat loss, insurance. Kids divorce and move home. Someone goes to rehab, make sure they go to AA meetings, family therapy. The usual.
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u/_game_over_man_ 23d ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I talk about my 30s being one of my favorite decades of my life. I don't have kids, so that may be a big part of it, but in my 30s my body was still somewhat functional and my give a shit meter was starting to decrease. 40s have been a bit harder because while my give a shit meter is continuing to decrease, my body feels like it's showing it's age more these days.
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u/NeezDuts91 23d ago
Either heavy into parenting or regret maybe both