When are you officially 'middle-aged'?

[rumguy]

I'd say like about 42...

But I have no idea....

[Mizmoon]

1. 50

we all love the delusion that we'll live to be 100.

[Momgonepostal]

2. This is an excellent question

I'd love to hear what other people think.

It seems to me middle age should be about the mid-point. So if life expectancy is 80, is middle aged about 40? Yikes.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. well,

since I just turned 47, it's definitely not 42! Maybe more like 55!

[kick-ass-bob]

4. 45.

And in 10 years, I will say 55.

:P

[Glenda]

5. Never. It's always other people who are middle aged

And the older you get, the higher that middle-aged number becomes. :)

G

[Blue-Jay]

6. When your pubic hair starts getting gray.

<checks....>

Nope!

[kick-ass-bob]

9. They get gray?

yuck!

[BootinUp]

10. I might have to buy grecian formula lol.

[clover]

12. & lose their curlyness, too! (nt)

[XNASA]

7. I'd say it has more to do with what phase of life that you're in.....

Rather than your chronological age.

For example, I've been married 20 years, have two teenaged sons and though I'm not quite 50, I'd say that I'm entering middle age.

However, I know people who are 50, who act like they're 25......

They're not middle aged by any stretch.

[methinks2]

8. when all of your pants are "comfortable"

and so are your shoes. When you don't bother to lose weight or put on makeup or color your hair.

Basically it's when you stop trying to look good.

[Squeech]

13. Happy creative people always look good

Every picture I've ever seen of 80 year olds doing what they love has been a delight.

Especially jazz musicians!

You're middle aged when you no longer have any aspirations to live out the life you originally wanted.

(I'm close, but I'm not quite there.)

[clover]

14. true!! and middle-age is a media construction (nt)

[tigereye]

16. no I think it means that you are in the middle part

of your life with many struggles such as education, home-buying, career choices already made, or kids to raise ( or already raised) and that you are now looking for new challenges and realizing that you can have round 2!

I prefer the term mid-life, myself. :)

[clover]

11. you are officially middle-aged

the very day you first ask the question "when are you officially middle-aged?" for me that was 15, b/c i never expected to live past 30, the age when i would no longer trust myself.
but i've been happily middle-aged now for 33 years.

[soothsayer]

15. F you! I'm 42, and as i'm supposed to live to 120 (according to two diff

psychics), I'm not NEARLY middle aged yet!

[dr.strangelove]

17. Once you hit 41 years, 246 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes and 2.139734 seconds

.000001 seconds later, you are already considered "old."

[Senior citizen]

18. I was never middle-aged.

I went straight from immaturity to seniority without ever being an official grown-up.

This sure is one weird society.

[Z_I_Peevey]

19. When you wake up in the morning

with no aches or pains, and notice this unusual occurrence.

[medeak]

20. 90 yr old Dad who looks and acts 50

says it's all a state of mind.

numbers aren't important

[AlabamaYankee]

21. Five years from now

No matter how old you are.

[regularguy]

22. Seems to me that your 40s and 50s are your middle age.

Luckily my humor is still in the 8th grade.

[tilsammans]

23. Well, if indeed . . .

. . . fifty is the "New Thirty," then I'd say seventy is middle-aged.

Seriously, I've heard that actuaries consider 55 to be middle age.

[the Princess]

24. NEVER!

Middle age sounds too depressing to me

[CO Liberal]

25. When Your Kids Start Getting Grey Hair

My daughter started going grey when she was 18 (just like her mother), so I reached middle age at 42. (I was 24 when she was born).