Curious about the changes, challenges, or special moments people experienced turning 30. Would love to hear your stories!
What’s the most unexpected or surprising thing that happened to you when you turned 30?
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Curious about the changes, challenges, or special moments people experienced turning 30. Would love to hear your stories!
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Can’t think of anything, tbh. My life didn’t suddenly change in any way from 29 to 30 to 31 based on age. It’s just another day, another year, and another step in the journey to me. Everything that changed in those times was about choices I made and not the specific age I was, so none of it is about turning 30.
I got a pooch very quickly
I finally felt like a full ass adult, I’ve lived thirty years I’ve done it
Right when I turned 30? A concussion.
My life started falling apart.
I suddenly stopped caring what people think. Not totally, and I have times here and there of being self conscious. But generally, I’ve realized if people don’t like my clothes, my thoughts, my words, my personality, that’s a them problem. We just aren’t compatible and that’s fine! I don’t have the energy to care about that kind of stuff anymore
The chin hairs.
My priorities completely shifted—family, career, and self-care became top.
I bought a horse which was my lifelong dream, and then 6 months later broke my leg, which caused a LIFE ALTERING chain of events. I was forced to take 6 months off work because I physically couldn’t do my job while I was recovering. Then totally shifted my career because it took me 3 years to regain full function and feeling back after having a complex nonunion fracture with a severe vitamin D deficiency. At the time, I was also a full time, live in caregiver for my elderly grandmother. The injury significantly shifted our relationship, and I was no longer able to fully care for her. She ended up with a severe infection that then required us to find long term care housing for her. My year 30 was a very eventful, very challenging year for me. I love being in my 30’s but there’s been a LOT of change and learning that’s occurred in this decade.
30 wasn’t the big chance for me. It was 45. When my mentatlity kinda shifted – I was more confident and weirdly I felt old at 30-35-40- and at 45 I realized how silly that was and suddenly felt young. I’ll let you know how 50 goes.
I stopped worrying about getting older.
I was in a relationship were I was beaten and raped. He said I had to get you addicted to date you. He was 14 years older than me. Had been addicted for 25 years.
If you are wondering. Walked away cold turkey after six years. Clean for 17 years. Had CBT for the abuse. Survivor not a victim!!!
Is something supposed to happen?
People started randomly pointing out to me that my clock was ticking, my ovaries were wilting and that career women just can’t have it all (careers and kids).
Even the ones who knew my situationship had ended a month earlier, or that I had just heard my job was to be terminated in 3 months. Even on my actual birthday.
The day I turned 30 my boyfriend left on a month long work trip without telling me it was happening. He told my friends not to bother planning anything for me because I “hate surprises” and then two months later he left me for his coworker who he’d travelled with previously.
It was a rough start to the decade.
My people pleasing broke me and made me sick. It forced me to take action and put myself and my health first.
I bought adult stuff for the first time, meaning a coffee maker and a humidifier X3
All the things I didn’t accomplish before thirty that I felt bad about not accomplishing due to societal and internal pressure stopped being a big deal. I’d passed the imaginary deadline and the world didn’t end. I can take my time to figure out which things I actually want and discard all the things I I’m told I’m supposed to want even if they bring no value to my life.
My life didn’t change when I hit 30 although I did have my daughter at that age. You’re really just a year older.
I feel younger and younger compared to how many times I’ve traveled around the sun 🌞
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My acne finally went away after 18 years!
I developed a deadly allergy to acid.
So that means no citrus, most perservatives, and soda are now deadly to me
Hangovers start to hangover
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got horni af🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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Covid happened. I turned 30 in January 2020.
I have no idea if the hair loss, weight gain, etc. was due to my age… or getting covid and the stress surrounding that time in my life.
But yeah. I never saw that coming. Lol.
People started taking me more seriously because of the crows feet around my eyes.