This is so bloody true
I have experienced this far too many times.

I've also been part of a smug couple but despite having children I've never done the smug couple with children with other smug couples with children...mainly because I had kids before they did.

It's the most boring and tedious way of life ever.

I've split up with two men over the whole desire to re-create what their parents have or had.

I don't want to be my parents or anyone else's parents. I can just about cope with being a grown-up who happens to have a pair of 10 year old boys in tow...and even then I'm not sure I'm always the grown-up.

Some people are just born middle-aged.

I want to carry on wearing unsuitable shoes, staying up late, drinking more than is good for me, riding a mountain bike, climbing things, telling rude jokes and generally enjoying myself.

I went on a school trip this week with the kids and received plenty of filthy looks when one of my boys mentioned I'd fallen off my mountain bike in Scotland.
Horror or horrors! I'd gone away WITHOUT the kids! I'd actually ENJOYED myself!

Boring old farts can be in their 20s as much as in their 50s.

Tossers the lot of them.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 12:49, Reply)