A male friend told me I’m past my prime (36)

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I’m 36f and a 37m told me women my age are past their prime. It made me really upset, I’ve been going through it and gained about 25 in 2 yrs and feeling there’s no hope left for me and I can’t seem to get myself to lose weight etc.

Comments

  1. LL8844773 Avatar

    Not your friend.

  2. kaisii43 Avatar

    Sounds like that friend has passed their friendship prime and needs to be dumped out with the bathwater

  3. BillieDoc-Holiday Avatar

    Start your weight loss by losing the dead weight that is your “friend”. You don’t keep people who are intentionally hurtful around. Why does his opinion matter more than your own.

  4. Old_Hunt3222 Avatar

    What a dick. Meanwhile men are drooling over hot women in their forties like Kim k 

  5. StateYourCase Avatar

    classic projection of an enemy. run! 😂

  6. Spare-Shirt24 Avatar

    He sounds like a shitty “friend”.

  7. GridReXX Avatar

    What makes him a friend?

  8. misplacedlibrarycard Avatar

    you can drop approx 160 pounds easily by not having him as a friend anymore!

  9. Insert-Username5111 Avatar

    You are on your own journey and that means you set the pace of growth you want for yourself. Don’t let others slap a timestamp on your life.

    I agree with others- doesn’t sound like much of a friend. Sounds like they should have been offering their support rather than their judgement. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

  10. Propofolmami91 Avatar

    Shouldn’t be a friend anymore. Who are they to decide if you’re past your prime??

  11. redfoxvapes Avatar

    Friends don’t say this type of thing.

  12. travertine_ghost Avatar

    Sweetie, I’m 60 years old, so please grant me this indulgence. I love to share pithy quotes, so here’s one for you:

    “Learn to love the sound of your feet walking away from things [or relationships] not meant for you.” 👣

    🙏

  13. CurieuzeNeuze1981 Avatar

    I’m sure he’s God’s gift to women 🙄
    Don’t let something some dud tells you drag you down. Just like a fine wine, we all get better with age.

  14. Both_Will_3681 Avatar

    he’s not your friend

  15. CheesecakeMain5003 Avatar

    You can change anything in your life. Start with loosing that negative friend.

  16. JoyousZephyr Avatar

    He is, I believe, a piece of shit for saying something like that.

  17. LaGevaCandela Avatar

    Bah don’t listen to him. Only you get to decide when your prime is. 38 is young still. You also get to decide what your prime entails. Is it running a marathon? Join a team and slowly slowly train. Is it taking singing lessons? Writing a book? Whatever. YOU get to decide YOU. His opinion don’t matter. Tell him to shut up and deal with his Viagra prescription bc it’s all limp dick from here for him. And then flip you hair and go on with your life.

  18. tenebrasocculta Avatar

    Does he have a partner, I wonder?

  19. epicpillowcase Avatar

    That is no friend. Why are you just accepting his shitty opinion as if it’s fact?

  20. Due_Description_7298 Avatar

    I mean, so what? 36 year men are technically past their prime too. We all age

  21. BitsNSkits Avatar

    That’s dumb lol don’t listen to him. I’m 35 and no one has told me this. We are just getting started! To add. Did he ever like you, and you turned him down?

  22. AD_Grrrl Avatar

    It’s hard to engage in self-care with friends like that around.

  23. MrsC7906 Avatar

    So, ex-friend

  24. One_Indication_ Avatar

    Sounds like he’s projecting lmao. Some men have a hard time dealing with aging and project it onto women. Also, what is “prime” to him? You are fertile until you go through menopause…which doesn’t typically start until around mid late forties or later. If he is referencing appearances…Megan Markle is 40 and looks better than some 20 somethings I’ve seen. Demi Moore, Eva Langoria, Gabrielle Union, Angela Bassett, etc.

  25. AgingLolita Avatar

    Ew. 

    Tell him the negging has to stop and you’re not going to bang him.

    36 past it, my arse. 

  26. CandyV89 Avatar

    That man is not your friend. You aren’t past your prime.

  27. KimJongFunk Avatar

    Idk how y’all listen to these men without laughing in their faces

    He’s not your friend and he’s not worth associating with.

  28. Snoo52682 Avatar

    That’s not a friend.

  29. TobiOffice Avatar

    What? You’re just getting started! Definitely not past your prime. That friend has a poor sense of what the term means.

  30. Apollonialove Avatar

    With friends like this, who needs enemies

  31. yellowduckie_21 Avatar

    What a jerk. Is he single by chance? He might be projecting. You should tell him you’re friendship is past it’s prime.

  32. ilovemelongtime Avatar

    What load of garbage.

    Absolute garbage.

    Ridiculously misogynistic garbage.

    Your VALUE isn’t based on AGE.

    VALUE is based on the person, not their meat-bag.

    If I carry toxic garbage in a new purse, it doesn’t make the toxic garbage suddenly valuable.

    F this guy, he is not a friend and he absolutely has no value nor the ability to assess the value of someone else. If anything- this is projection on his part. Women in their 20s aren’t dtf with him, so he has to drag another person down.

  33. infrontofmyslad Avatar

    past their prime

    Men like this expose what they think of women: sex objects, incubators, etc. You are not a milk jug. You do not have an expiration date other than the one we all (including men) share as mortal beings.

  34. justmeraw Avatar

    Not a friend.