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When teenagers finally become adults, they are let in on the little secret that no one actually knows what they are doing. The truth is that even seasoned adults sometimes need to ask for help and advice to navigate life. 

One netizen asked the internet “What’s a common mistake people make in their 30s?” People shared the ups and downs, misconceptions, and little victories of growing older. So make yourself comfortable, maybe find somewhere to take notes and get to scrolling. Be sure to upvote your favorite posts and comment your thoughts below. 

#1

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Stay in unhealthy toxic relationships.

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Once a person is in their mid-twenties, it can be hard to find real-life advice and mentorship. After all, you have been a full adult for some time by then, able to vote, drive, drink, and take out loans. You have possibly already participated in multiple election cycles and maybe even own a car. Younger people might already be coming to you for advice.

You might struggle to explain to them that you don’t really understand what is going on at the same time. So it’s no surprise that many people enter their 30s with only the inkling of a plan and just do their best. Just because someone has survived three decades doesn’t automatically mean they suddenly gain some deeper insight, just like turning twenty doesn’t unlock some new ability. 

#3

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Thinking they are too old. Never too late to switch career paths or look for a new relationship or start taking care of your health.

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I just turned 30 and realized I’m a bad person. Lying, manipulation, cheating, etc. But I went back into weekly therapy, and I'm pretty determined to not be like this going forward.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never too late to work on urself. The fact that u are aware, determined and have found help I think this is a journey u will complete and be happy and satisfied with the awesome person u will become. Good luck!!

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#4

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Settling for a spouse.

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See this SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH! People getting married for the sake of getting married. As a consequence, I'm seeing divorces SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH too! Been on dates where it's obvious the girl wants the title of wife more than actually being a wife.

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#5

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not exercising enough and eating a cr*ppy diet. You can't get away with those things anymore like you did in your 20s.

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One area that many thirty-year-olds likely don’t think about until it’s too late is physical health. While the twenties are often a peak for many people, this can create bad habits down the line. When you are young, you feel invincible because, in many ways, you sort of are. This rarely translates into one’s thirties, so if a person doesn’t adjust their lifestyle, they end up feeling a lot worse without immediately understanding why. 

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#6

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not wearing sunscreen and taking care of your skin. especially your face.

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#7

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s I think the biggest mistake _I_ made in my 30s was kind of going on autopilot. I'm 42 in a month, and, to be dead honest, I'm not sure my 30s even happened. It feels like I went from 29 to 40. And I think it's because I just kind of kept my head down and carried on as usual. I should have spent that time being more pro-active. Stupid me, but it doesn't have to be stupid you!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's hard but I think it's somehow part of everyday life... or at least that's how I feel. every day just happens, goes by and seems to repeat itself. Time passes very surreally this way - quickly and slowly at the same time. It's all the more important to take some time for yourself at least once a year and do something nice (leave the housework alone and not work for the house, really. You'll have that left for other days). The rare free time with friends is also important. I'm trying to incorporate semi-regular meetings into my everyday life again. and if it's only three hours on Friday after work (which makes the weekend feel longer), then that's fine. (Edit: train to not feel guilty of every dirty dish, relax from time to time in your chaos and just be you. Make it normal that not everything is spotless - just keep it healthy clean)

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#8

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Staying at a job they are severely unhappy at and accepting toxic work environments. Cough cough teachers

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This is just as true when it comes to partners and careers. It’s actually a bit bizarre that high-school graduates are tasked with picking a career path, then often taking on a mountain of debt, with little-to-no real-life experience. The result is burnt-out people struggling to keep afloat in their twenties, trapped in jobs they don’t actually want to do. 

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#9

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not taking care of your teeth.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've recently made a bigger effort to remember to floss every day. It makes me feel so adult for some basic self care.

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#10

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Being concerned about not being the young, trendy generation anymore. Wear your skinny jeans all you want, millennial women!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once you realize, “This is who I am” and OWN it, you’ll be amazed at how much better you feel.

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#11

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Panicing. You do not need to have a great career, partner, 4-bedroom house, and baby on the way just because your 20s are over. Relax.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

💯 I'm 37, still single and living in rented accommodation. Sometimes I do worry that my chance of finding the right man and getting married etc has gone, but mostly I'm actually quite happy with my life and I'm grateful that at least I'm not trapped in a toxic relationship just for the sake of not being alone. I don't allow being single to stop me doing anything and I go to the cinema alone, I've travelled alone and I've had some amazing experiences. This idea that you pass some sort of finish line when you hit 30 is ridiculous.

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Some of the responses mention that you will notice time start to fly by quickly for the first time. In the blink of an eye, you go from 30 to 35, suddenly you are now 39. After all, the longer you live, the shorter each day, week, and even month seems, as time and experiences blend together. Learning to be present seems like eye-rolling cliche advice when you are young and can’t sit still for over four minutes, but it comes in handy later. 

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#12

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Romanticizing your 20s and fearing your 40s. (live where you are).

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It's so easy to romanticize the past and fear the future. Life is organic, and so are we. We will keep changing and oftentimes in a good way (stronger, wiser, more confident, etc.). I'm so happy to be who I am at 37.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone has a tendency to declare when “the good old days” were. It’s generally when you had much less responsibility, awareness of life’s grim realities and likely when your mother still did your laundry. Objectively, in my 50s, I live in a safer world (Current situations aside..), am emotionally wiser, more tolerant, more financially and emotionally secure than in my 20s, I have a much better b******t detector when dealing with people, know who deserves my time and who doesn’t. Best of all, I’ve lost the steadfast moral certainties of my younger self and have realised that there are few absolute black and white issues - just shades of grey. Would I go back? Not on your Nelly!

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#13

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Taking care of your body. Once I turned 31 lots of medical issues arose for me from various things but contact sports leave more damage than you know. Go to the dentist go to the doctor be active. I say all this as I’m about to be in a hospital during a hurricane in Florida. Take care of yourself physically. mentally. and spiritually.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you take time to take care of yourself you can take care of everyone else and your responsibilities so much better!!!! Please prioritize yourselves my fellow pandas!!!!!!!

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#14

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Making relationship decisions based on avoiding/meeting/holding on to milestones by a certain age. (I can't be a divorcee at 34, I have to be married by 34, I need to start a family in the next two years, I'm too old to start dating again, etc.)

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One reason why some may simply try to avoid this question is the tough-to-swallow reality that things tend to get worse. Your body breaks down, you really do need to be setting more money aside for retirement and you have less and less time to function. But you are finally at a stage in life where you have, hopefully, tried enough to know what you want. This knowledge is perhaps worth more than just its weight in gold, which can be simply bought and sold. Experience only comes with time. 

#15

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not listening to their burnout signals and just settling in for the long haul. You’re not going to make it. And if you do “make it” you won’t like yourself or the sacrifices you had to make along the way.

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#16

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Thinking you're a finished product, not likely to change all that much.

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#17

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Biggest mistake I made in my 30's was not enjoying them more.

Young enough to party, still play some sports, and perfectly in place in any bar. You have energy, you have a circle of friends (that will get smaller, trust me).

Try to carpe a diem every once in a while, the decade passes VERY quickly.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time really does seem to go faster as you get older. I swear, stuff that happened 10 years ago seem like they only happened 3 years ago.

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#18

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not getting over or at least somewhat understanding your childhood and parental issues. Understanding that stuff can make the rest of your life easier.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Excellent point, it was in my 30s that I reflected on my childhood issues, and more importantly took the time to learn what my mother had been through. It did not change her, but it did change me and probably saved my relationship with both my husband and my child.

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not getting that thing checked out by a doctor.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. After ignoring symptoms for years and sucking it up, at 52 I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. I'm 56, cancer free and will finally, albeit reluctantly, go to the doctor for unusual symptoms.

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Thinking you can’t make a difference in someone’s life because the world is too large to see your small act. I have a student with extreme depression, and I always remind her that it’s not a bad life, it’s a bad day when she has an attack. Even though she is usually too upset to talk or even respond, I just sit with her in silence until the crisis passes. A lot of people will ask me why I even bother, she’ll never get better, my action is insignificant and means nothing, but you know what: it meant something to her and made her life better. That’s good enough for me. Never think you can’t make a difference, people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made a habit of making small stuffies and leaving them in pantry boxes with "I'm (name), be my friend" notes for the past year without ever really knowing what happens once they are taken. I'm at the last bit of my stuffing in my bag and I was debating if it was even worth continuing when I found a note left in one of the boxes yesterday, letting me know what a difference I had made to someone for some small act. The little things matter.

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#21

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Not stretching. Like not necessarily before exercise (though absolutely that too) but just in general.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stretch your back when you wake up, before you get out of bed. Hug your knees to your chest, roll your hips from side to side, etc. It takes like 5 minutes and helps you wake up, and I haven't had any back issues at all since I started this, whereas before I would tweak my back a few times per year from something mundane like sneezing or putting on my shoes lol

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Thinking you need the job, house, marriage, kids combo to be perfect.

I got into a profession I loved at 32, after I switched careers, and went back to school at 29. I've had 4 different jobs since.

Bought a house at 34. Got lucky. Right now is not the time.

Had a kid at 38- it took 6 years of trying.

I'm really happy.

No fairytale relationship, and that's ok. Never married, don't believe in it.

It's never too late to retrain for a job, houses depend a lot on APR and debt ratio, marriage is expensive if you do it with the wrong person, kids are a blessing if you want them, there are natural limits to fertility. If you don't, lots of wonderful contraceptive options don't depend on other people for that.

Live the life you want for you and the people who support and uplift you. Ignore social media and ignore social norms. Do commit to something special, a person, a project, a dream. Commitment yields good things! Don't lose out on a good thing you have, while imagining everything you do not have is better.

The grass is greener where you water it. Or you know, tear it up and plant something local. Everything I have achieved took years of planning, support, and intention. Slow and steady. Small and focused.

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#24

Smoking. You need to quit that s**t. After 10 years of smoking I stopped smoking at the age of 28. Best thing I've ever done. Now I am 32, healthier than ever.

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Comparing their lifestyle to other 30-somethings.

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Your peer's success can seem perfect from afar and make you feel inadequate. But if you sit down and talk with them, you will learn all sorts of shortcomings and difficulties in their life that will make you appreciate something about yourself and your situation. In other words, we're all just out here trying to function.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Comparing yourself to others is perfectly normal human behaviour and not something you can just switch off. One just needs to learn to be more reasonable about it imo.

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Thinking you aren’t STILL sexy, sensual, and desirable. You are, you’re beautiful.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was just as sexy, sensual, and desirable at 40 as I was at 20. But that was the problem.

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#27

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Thinking it's too late to do something. "I don't have any credit built", "I don't have any retirement savings", and get disheartened from trying. The best time was yesterday, the next best time is today.

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#28

Thinking you have to be settled in your career. 39 and starting over. Excited for new chapter.

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#29

My mistake was not traveling and remaining in my own near-sighted American cocoon. My advice is to travel as soon as you can and sample what the World has to offer. Places in the U.S. and overseas may offer better environments and circumstances well beyond what you have today.

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s This one is not specific to the 30s: Not understanding our inner world is the biggest mistake. As Carl Jung wrote: 'But you cannot flee from yourself. It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment.' A significant portion of who we truly are, what we like, what we are capable of, and the reasons we do the things we do, persist within a realm we don't actively understand or have access to. To become our true selves, we need introspection to learn about the aspects of our being that we are unaware of, dislike or hide. 

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#31

Mine is always thinking that you will be healthy.

I’ve been disabled my entire life and have had some friends who have developed chronic illnesses or had accidents in their 30s who thought they would always be able bodied and capable tell me they never thought about what if.

So vote for infrastructure that makes things accessible! If you’re buying a forever home can you navigate it with a wheelchair? Do you have a death and dismemberment policy? Do you have a plan on who would help you?

Definitely more morbid than most but being already disabled at a young age makes you think differently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s To summarize my points below: Your 30s is when you are really in the thick of "adulting". It's easy to loose focus on what is really important to you among all the demands and responsibilities.

Not Fostering Friendships: As you enter your 30s, maintaining and nurturing friendships becomes more challenging. It's a time when connections can fade, and forming new ones becomes harder. It's very important to invest effort in the friendships you currently have. **Edit:** A few people have commented about what to do when people don't reciprocate? My advise - keep trying! Everyone is under water in their 30's, they likely won't be able to make every attempt at outreach you make. But over time as things become less hectic they will remember you kept trying (without guilt) and will appreciate it and come back to you. But toxic people, yeah cut those out!

Not Nurturing Your Romantic Relationship: Responsibilities increase in your 30s like careers, parenthood, and caregiving for aging parents. It's common for the most crucial relationship – your romantic partnership – to be inadvertently neglected. Avoid taking your partner for granted, assuming they'll always be around, or treating them as an outlet for your worst moments.

Not Preserving Your Identity: Similar to the previous points, your 30s come with a whirlwind of conflicting priorities that can lead you to lose touch with your identity. It's easy to forget what truly brings you joy and satisfaction. Maintain a hobby that gives your life purpose and regularly reflect on whether your job still fulfills your needs in terms of purpose, financial stability, and overall satisfaction.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, keep writing those bday messages and Christmas cards, even when there isn't much coming back from people busy with careers and kids. Those friendships will rekindle later in life.

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#33

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Drinking like they're still in their 20s. Acting like they're still in their teens.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, this is essential to continue into your 30s, 40s and beyond, Once you give up partying you'll never be able to go back to it.

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#34

Letting your job take over your life and neglecting your mental, physical, and emotional health.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Left a job that I had been at for 16 years to improve my own mental health and happiness. It was an adjustment at first, starting a new career, but so worth it!

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#35

Staying up too late. You can’t bounce back like your twenty any more!

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#36

I'm 62 and I so wish that I had followed my dreams in my 30's.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The dreams I followed (and largely realised) hadn't even been dreamed in my 30s.

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#37

“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Asking people in their 40s for advice. People their 40s are just as lost and clueless as you.

Edit: Middle-aged here and just as clueless now as I was as young person.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is nonsense imo. Everyone gains more experience as they age and someone ten years older than you will likely have experienced some things you haven't yet and come to some conclusions. Obviously no one is all-knowing at any age.

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#38

Lifting with their back.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst backpain I ever had was getting a can of coke out of the fridge (this was in my 30s too). It was on a low shelf and I twisted just the wrong way. Instant muscle spasms and days of being laid up. Had to get a friend to drop me to the doctor cos there was no way I could get there otherwise (well calling an ambulance I suppose). That was part of the reason I started going to the gym, doing core strength work to stabilise those crappy muscles. Haven't had a problem since (touch wood).

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#39

Don't think the grass is greener. Conversely, keep making the effort with your partner.

I've seen countless people have affairs or leave their partners when they get into their mid 30s, often after having kids with them. Loads of people I know did it - I got divorced myself in my mid 30s and my subsequent partner had an affair herself when she was in her mid 30s.

Basically the common denominator in all of these cases was - mid 30s.

Fair enough if your partner is a nightmare, as my second relationship was. However many people don't seem to realise that they themselves aren't the easiest, and lack the enthusiasm or energy to get out of that rut.

Believe me, it's far easier to get out of that rut - no matter how hopeless it seems, than it is to break up the family and all the subsequent s**t that goes with it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The grass is greener on the other side only because I'm not over there f*****g things up.

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#40

Spend way too much money.

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Lifestyle inflation can really take off in your 30s.

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Pushing through minor injuries.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Make that: Pushing through any injuries without a proper diagnosis. Sometimes that little niggling injury is actually worse than you thought, and if you don't treat it NOW it ten years it's actually a real problem. The younger you are the quicker you heal (usually) and the better the results tend to be. So fix it now, don't wait.

#42

Repeating the mistakes they made in their 20s.

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Having kids and buying houses and vehicles they can’t afford. you can wind up 2 or 3 hundred thousand dollars in debt in a trice, especially if the kid(s) are disabled or troubled, the house incurs major structural damage, or your Beemer gets destroyed in a flood.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Get the best insurance cover available/you can afford for the house and car at least, not much you can do to mitigate the costs of children!

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#44

Sleeping wrong and being in pain all day.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just gets worse and worse every flippin year . . . I have laid myself up for a week reaching for something on the bottom shelf of the grocery store, more than once!!!

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#45

Not making a solid financial plan for the future.

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#46

Remarrying waaaay too soon after divorce, and finding it out the hard way a few years later. Third time was the charm though.

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#47

Trying to do all the things they used to be able to do in their teens and early twenties but stopped doing 4 or 5 years ago.

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#48

Think they are 20.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doing what the kids do when they say the deadliest words in the world: "follow me, Dad".

#49

The most important. Have a mentor or confidant that (is preferable not a family member) to check in with. Everyone needs someone to talk to other than their spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, life partner, or whatever arrangement one may have. Family is not always supportive or understand the hopes, dreams and aspirations. There are a lot of dream squashers out there. Some may feign looking out for your best interest when in reality are probably a bit of a narcissist to make one doubt their self worth.

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“My Body Is Starting To Feel It”: 30 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their 30s Thinking we can still drink stupid and recover for work in a couple hours.
My body is starting to feel it some days.

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#51

Buying a house without 20% down.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A good general rule, but not a universal one. Sometimes it is worth it to borrow more now than wait. It just depends on your individual circumstances, market conditions, etc.

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#52

Credit cards.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can have credit cards as long as you know this is a loan you have to pay back and have self-discipline!