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Middle aged grumps

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  • VfM4meplse
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    HOWMUCH wrote: »
    It made me laugh a few weeks ago they were on about the increase of women staying at home and looking after children had increased.
    I am more than willing to take annual leave to look after my young niece. Every moment with her is a joy :)
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

    "No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio

    Hope is not a strategy :D...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!
  • suki1964
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    I think I'm a lot happier then I've ever been in my life now I'm in my 50's

    I think that comes from contentment, I'm happy with what I have in life

    It's not a glamorous life, indeed it's hard work mostly, but it fulfills me

    20's and 30's were the worse years, not knowing what I wanted from life, not knowing how to achieve,seemed to stumble from one disaster after another, keeping working in a job I hated as it was the one stable thing in my life

    Having a breakdown, having to step back from the rat race, was my turning point. My forties bought many changes that for the first time ever I felt mature enough to deal with and now I'm fitting in to my 50's happily and looking forward

    I do grouse now and then about how things are this day and age, but I think it's a generational thing but I'm never really grumpy
  • VfM4meplse
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    suki1964 wrote: »
    Having a breakdown, having to step back from the rat race, was my turning point.
    Sorry to hear that! Unfortunately good health tends to be taken for granted until it is lost - for many, this marks a turning point.
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

    "No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio

    Hope is not a strategy :D...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!
  • HOWMUCH
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    edited 12 February 2016 at 5:54PM
    VfM4meplse wrote: »
    I am more than willing to take annual leave to look after my young niece. Every moment with her is a joy :)

    I took early retirement last September to look after my DGS who's 3 and austistic. He'd previously been looked after by my DH but he's is too much of a live wire now for Grandpa to do it alone.
    I could not find anything to back up that stay at home mums had increased, I don't know where they got their statistics from.
    Why pay full price when you may get it YS ;)
  • suki1964
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    VfM4meplse wrote: »
    Sorry to hear that! Unfortunately good health tends to be taken for granted until it is lost - for many, this marks a turning point.

    Best thing that ever happened to me in a way. Ok those times were some of my worst, but I got through the other side stronger. More aware that I had to be kind to myself, know my limits. It's led me to a simpler life and I'm much better for it
  • PasturesNew
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    The way to prevent being grumpy once you're over 40 is to accept and resign yourself to the fact that life's intrinsically !!!!!! :)
  • VfM4meplse
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    The way to prevent being grumpy once you're over 40 is to accept and resign yourself to the fact that life's intrinsically !!!!!! :)
    Your posts always remind me - there's someone out ther worse off :p
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

    "No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio

    Hope is not a strategy :D...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!
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