How very, very true!
No one warns you that you will hit 35 and then life suddenly becomes exciting...well, actually it doesn't necessarily, but you become excited by it....ahem...

No one tells you that once you're over 30 you start to discover a confidence in yourself which you never had at any point before in your life.

No one tells you that as soon as you reach your thirties you are wise enough to know (most of the time) when a man fancies you...it's not that difficult to tell...you're female, he's male...that's all there is to it really...

Suddenly you no longer care (that much) what people think of you - there is only one thing worse than being talked about...that's not being talked about.

You learn to flirt outrageously and to be able to control the overenthusiastic (most of the time).

You're no longer hearing every tiny tick of the infernal baby clock because generally you've already done that and come out the other side.

You now really make the connection between sex and pleasure...it's no longer about making babies or keeping a man...it's about having FUN!

Once you're out of your 20s most of us can laugh at ourselves - some very, very lucky women manage to do that in their 20s but they're few and far between.

All in all getting older is great...and for me 10 years ago I didn't look as good as I do now - I was a harassed and heavily pregnant mother-to-be of giant twins.

And BGB, I don't believe you when you say you're too old for the young guys...how young? Personally I don't drop below ten or eleven years younger - hugely flattering, but also just on the outer edges of similar cultural experiences. And now due to personal experience, I would rarely go anywhere near a man older than me...but maybe that's just because I'm immature, but then growing up *is* overrated.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 18 Dec 2007, 23:15, Reply)