Why I’ve decided to spend the whole year celebrating my 50th
telegraph.co.uka sense that reaching 40 was something of a gift, and one that could be actively enjoyed.Ninety years on, the saying no longer holds as true as perhaps it once did.
With many couples starting families in their 30s, it might be said that the school run begins at 40. With life expectancy for the average baby boomer at around 79 years, 40 may well mark the beginning of the stressful “sandwich” years for us Gen X-ers.
For me, life certainly began to change at 40. My three children were at school and nursery, leaving me with an identity and career crisis – not able to do full-time work, but no longer required as a 24/7 mother.
Engagements and weddings were slowly edged out by school functions and, later, news of disharmony, separations and poorly parents.
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