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05/09/2008 10:41

What things did you not expect to happen to YOU as you grew older ?

Hello Ladies

I was just thinking I really did not think I would ever as I got older (now 47) would ...........

Have three or four stubborn dark hairs sprouting from my chin on a regular basis lol !

Have serious eye bags and lines around my eyes !

Have an ever thinning top lip !!

Have a bottom that drops each year lol !

Would prefer flats than heels

Would get a bunion !!

Prefers staying in with a good book !

Goes to bed by 10 every night lol

Has hooded eye lids

Has back fat urghhh lol !!

and last but not least (but I am sure there are lots more I just cant remember right now lol) ever increasing size of inner thighs !!

Oh yes I know prefers big knickers lol !!

Over to you girls ......

Sue x

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05/09/2008 10:43

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I did not expect to turn into my mum!

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05/09/2008 11:45

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I used to go shopping all day with a friend...I did not expect to get tired after a couple of hours, and that's including a break for cappuccino!
I did not expect one day to be planning my 60th birthday, which is in December...me! 60! never! In my head I'm about 40!
I did not expect to be widowed at 50, and even then I did not expect to remarry and be so happy with my husband.

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05/09/2008 11:55

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I did not expect to feel the same as I did when I was younger. I always thought older people were different, but no, they are young people with older bodies. Help!

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05/09/2008 11:59

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I did not expect to find out that the saying "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips" was actually true!!

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05/09/2008 12:15

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Cupcake, isnt it scary turning into your mum! It happened quite suddenly for me, as her death and funeral occurred unexpectedly over Xmas when I was visiting, so I had to use one of her coats (only had a cagoule with me)
Ever snce then, I see her as I pass a mirror unexpectedly or a shop window!
Even my wardrobe has evolved into her colours!!

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05/09/2008 12:49

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As Victoria Wood said "There are just soooo many places to moisturise!!"

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05/09/2008 12:59

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I didnt expect to meet the man who became my husband - at teh age of 41 , never having been married bedore

I didnt expect to learn to swim and cycle at teh age of 45

I didnt expect to feel at 50, the best I have for decades

I didnt expect to have joined the WI

I didnt expect to enjoy walking as much as I do

Perhaps you can guess that I have been trying to re-invent myself ! Still a work in progress!!

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05/09/2008 16:51

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I didn't expect to feel so confident or that I would have such a good social life. I spent years raising my children alone, and used to think I would be too old to enjoy myself by the time they were grown up. I now know I was wrong to feel this way.
Am with janmac on this one I'm still a work in progress, and am enjoying every minute of it.
And I absolutley didn't expect to be dating a younger man, and what's more not feeling guilty about it.

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05/09/2008 17:19

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I didnt expect to be married.

or
have to watch everthing go south...

for things to take longer to heal/mend.

to find out that you cant stay up late anymore and expect to get up the next morning feeling great.

ho hum said pooh....but I am as I am older happier than I have ever been...:)

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05/09/2008 17:35

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I didn't expect to

Enjoy gardening

To enjoy stopping in on an evening

Loose my parents

Wear lower heels

Have facial hair

To enjoy wearing big knickers

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05/09/2008 19:30

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I didn't expect to

enjoy gardening so much. I was so excited to count the flowers on my peony this year and I love picking my home grown tomatoes and beans

have quite as extensive a herb garden

be quite so happy not going out on a Saturday night

start chatting to people on the bus and in queues (just like my mother!!)

have such a wonderful warm cosy feeling inside when all my nearest and dearest are sitting together enjoying a meal. I just look around the table and really, really savour the moment.

find how little I need to be so happy

enjoy talking about family things with my sister

feel that my nephews are just as precious and special to me as my own children

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05/09/2008 19:37

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I can't believe I need to wear glasses to read - I knew it would come but it just seems unreal now!

Didn't expect to have middle age spread. Or indeed be middle aged for that matter!

Didn't expect to have 'old lady' hands at 48

Didn't expect that I would have the career I have now

Didn't expect to have a bunion either or seek out the comfy shoes with 'support' lol!

Biggest shock - I now 'need' to wear a bra as opposed to wearing one because that is what you do! Comes as part of the middle age spread I suppose.

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06/09/2008 11:04

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I wasn't really expecting grey pubes! Never mind, my stomach thoughtfully hangs over them!

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06/09/2008 18:37

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Nipples that feel the need to sprout hairs, almost in competition with my husband

Why is it that now that I can only wear low heels they bring out all these absolutely gorgeous shoes???

Find that I drink as much as I did when I first started drinking and get tipsy much quicker

but most of all...
To enjoy being the age I am now, watching all the young people battling it out, thinking, was it like that for me, or have things just got worse over the years and we have just been one step in front of it happening?

Oh yes, and people watching. I love just watching people rushing about, interacting with one another in all situations.

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06/09/2008 20:15

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I didn't expect to not care at all what I might get in my Christmas stocking.

I didn't imagine my bed would be more attractive to me on a Saturday night than meeting a guy in club.

I didn't expect to enjoy cooking dinner as much as I enjoy eating it.

I didn't imagine I'd pay off my credit card in full every month.

I didn't imagine I would answer the front door wearing an apron and slippers.

I never thought I would plan my evening around what's on tv.

I didn't imagine I would try to eat 5 pieces of fruit and veg a day.

I didn't imagine I would buy walking boots.

I didn't expect I'd go ballroom dancing.

I didn't imagine that I would enjoy giving more than receiving.

I didn't imagine my parents would get old.

I didn't imagine I would wear big knickers.

I didn't think one day it would be hard to climb out of the bath.

I didn't think I would need specs to drive my car.

Do you need any more?? I could go on!

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06/09/2008 20:27

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to still fancy my OH as much as I do!

to still worry about my grown up kids as much as I do

and

to still (after 20 years) miss my mum as much as I do

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06/09/2008 20:44

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I didn't expect I'd ever grow old.

I don't mean that I thought I'd not live long enough, but somehow growing old was something I thought happened to other people, not me.

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07/09/2008 09:42

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I didn`t expect
to be living in Spain
to have to learn to talk all over again (spanish)
that Iwould have loads of friends that I have never seen
to enjoy cruising
to find sex painful (until I discovered the cream)
to miss my Paddy (mygrandson) so much
to still feel 20
to love drinking water
to love my SF more than ever
to have to dye my hair every six weeks

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07/09/2008 19:21

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Never expected to:-

1. get divorced, or even remarried.

2. like wearing flat shoes (bought new pair today in a purply/mauve colour)

3. go to bed as my son is getting ready to go out!

4. enjoy being a Grandma as much as I do

5. experience the menapause/change, but so glad not to have monthlys any more!

6. my youngest son to live abroad and how much I would miss him

7. to be writing to "strangers" on a forum!!

Also agree with so many already written above.
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10/09/2008 15:23

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There is a heck of a lot I never expected!!!

Although I don't look it in any way, I feel an element of trepidation as my 62nd birthday is now only half a year away..... I had never expected that I would mind!

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10/09/2008 15:27

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Am a year ahead of you Chatelaine and time does seem to be racing ahead. Didnt expect my hair to get thinner or my limbs to ache so much, inspite of being uber fit 10 years ago. Two arthroscopies on each knee have been one of the biggest mistakes I have made - the discomfort before them is nothing like the discomfort now.

Would certainly have listened and played less high impact sports, or at least worn better plimsolls!

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10/09/2008 16:59

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I don't recognize my self as I walk past a shop window (who's that old woman staring back at me!!) and realise it's me!! getting toe hair ugh... looking back on my son's childhood as if it was yesterday and realising it was 29 years ago (it makes me feel so sad!!) thinking about school friends from years ago and friends that have disapeared through the years...why I ask myself did

I allow that to happen!!

Looking at my partner who I have been with for 30 odd years and seeing age creep up upon him (in a nice way).

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11/09/2008 20:05

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I'm new to the forum and it really gave me a laugh to read all the replys to this one - I can sympathise or emphathise with many of them - but the thing is I find it hard to admit to close 'not on line' friends - my one big issue is with my eyesight - I will be 50 in november and just last Easter I realised I needed glasses - I've always had really good eyesight and of course thought there must be something terrible wrong when my eyes started to go 'funny' It all started when we were on holiday and I couldn't read the map. Of course it just had to be the map - it must be poor print! then book print became poor too! so my sister ( when I eventually shared this with her) suggested I should have my eyes tested - reluctantly I went off to boots optitions, had my eyes tested and they had the nerve to prescribe glasses for me! Must say though I choose a lovely red rimmed pair (CK) and they do make me look somewhat more intelligent! Now however (a few more months down the line) I keep them on for writing but have got into this habit of not taking them off to speak to people but rather put them down my nose and look over the top of them! I used to hate people who did this as they seemed like old pompous school marms - and here I am doing something I never expected to happen!!!!

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14/09/2008 07:39

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Ladies, I'd just like to say thanks for all those lovely reminders on the importance of gratitude in our lives.
I did not expect to be sitting here, smiling, after a sleepless night worrying about my sister's financial dilemma. You've made me remember that this, too, shall pass.
Many thanks. I hope I'm half as bodacious as you when I'm 'older'.

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15/09/2008 04:48

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A few of the above but also I really did not think that from the age of 29 to 35 would be worse than my years as a teenager.
That I can still party with the best of them and have been known to get home at 7am.
That I still have the reputation of having hollow legs and can drink most men under the table though I don't do it very often often and really only at the rugby 7ns here in HK. So think once a year for 3 days is ok to party.

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