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When I was 34 I finally got the nerve to leave my ex husband. Now at almost 39, I am happier than ever in my life. Not to include the blessing of my children, of course.
So far, every decade has been the best for me. It just keeps getting better.
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Good health, everyone I care about is doing well, great career, solid set of friends who bring positivity into my life, many different activities/hobbies/events/travel, no roll-over credit card debt, learned to enjoy and embrace experience while recognizing things are not what makes me happy, learned how not to stress over things that are out of my control, recognized the negativity in my life and minimized it or removed it outright, etcetera...
I turn 36 this month, and these are some of the happiest days for me. My life has been fairly consistent since my early 20s, so I know that the greater mesaure of happiness is due entirely to emotional maturity. I was gainfully employed in a good paying job with good benefits and steady career progression and married to a woman I love when I was 24, but I didn't fully appreciate the things I had. I wanted my life to "matter" -- whatever that meant. I was constantly comparing my life to the lives of others I thought were happier than me. Somewhere in my late 20s, I realized I just needed to enjoy what I had and not worry about what I didn't have or what I thought others had.
When I was 33 I had a 13 year old and a 10 year old. So this was a pretty rough age for me trying to deal with 2 pre-teens, working, a home, my Mother-in-law was ill and dying and I had to help care for her, my husband was not supportive. Now ask me about my 40's and I would give a completely different and happier answer.
When I was 33 I had a 13 year old and a 10 year old. So this was a pretty rough age for me trying to deal with 2 pre-teens, working, a home, my Mother-in-law was ill and dying and I had to help care for her, my husband was not supportive. Now ask me about my 40's and I would give a completely different and happier answer.
I always thought the best years for most people were from the late teens to early 20's.
I used to think something was wrong with me because those weren't the best years for me. Actually,they were the worst (so far). Everyone around me that was my age seemed to have so much fun and carefree lives.
But now that I read this,and after talking to residents in the nursing home,it seems everyone has a period in their life when they have their best years. Mine seems to be now,so I guess I have to wait 3 more years to see if 33 will be the best year for me.
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