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Sex & the Single Woman: Is 28 the Happiest Age for Women?
Last week I read that a new study has determined that women are happiest at age…wait of it…28. Since yours truly is 30, I find this more than a little horrifying. Especially considering that I spent much of year 28 picking up the pieces of a disastrous break-up. If that’s as good as it gets, well, I think I’d like my money back.
Apparently researchers reasoned that once a gal hits 30, she starts stressing more about career, marriage, and kids. I’m not saying that’s wrong…I definitely stress more about having kids, especially when every newspaper churns out story after story about women who dared to try and have kids in their mid- to late 30s. But to say that these worries eliminate the possibility of true happiness…well, that’s a load of BS if you ask me.
What do you think? Was 28 a great year for you?
-Erin xx
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I think that without the media’s pressure, a woman could be very happy at 30. But thanks to pressure to have kids, etc. being happy is nearly impossible.
At 28, I divorced my first husband,
In my 30s, I was married to husband #2 and longing for the children that I wanted and he didn’t.
At 40, I was single for the first time in 14 years and loving it!
At 42, I finally found an amazing guy who treats me like a queen, loves me for who I am, and wants a family as much as I do.
I would have to say that having lived through my 20s and 30s, my 40s are SO MUCH MORE FUN! So from my perspective, 28 was nothing compared to 42.
And I’m still working on creating the family of my dreams — and although I have fewer and fewer fertile years left, I’m stressing about it a lot less than at 28.
So, I’d say those researchers have got it wrong. Look forward to each new decade as it comes along and you’ll always find the year you are in to be the happiest you’ve ever been.