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Really?
Wait til you have your 30 year HS reunion and get back to us.
The pix on my profile is from my 30 year.....I've been told I look fabulous for my age.
Most of the women I grew up with who I see when I visit the hometown or see current photos of via social media look basically the same or better at early 30s. The ones who look haggard/older than their years are the smokers and the sun (and/or tanning bed) worshippers. Those chicks look rough.
The guys, by contrast, are paunchy and with receding hairlines, in the majority of cases. Nearly everyone's pretty recognizable. The one glaring exception is a woman I was close with as a teen, but whose lifestyle pretty drastically diverged from mine after graduation. She'd been a buxom, even chunky girl with really big breasts as a teen, and now she's rather emaciated (thanks to being a cokehead alcoholic), no chest to speak of, and died her hair platinum and cropped it short for even more dramatic effect. At out ten-year reunion, most people didn't recognize her, they thought she was a classmate's spouse. I heard some classmates in the restroom gossiping about how she was so thin, but I don't think any of them hit on the reality that she'd basically traded food for coke.
Male or female, the main factors in aging poorly seem to be how much sun damage one's skin sustains, whether or not one is a smoker, and genetics. Smoking is HUGE. A few years ago, a magazine, don't remember which, did a feature on identical twins where one was a longtime smoker and one never smoked, but other overall lifestyle factors were similar. The difference in their appearance was striking. The smokers all looked minimum of 5-10 years older.
Some women make unfortunate choices that tend to age them faster. However, clean moderate lifestyle more often than not rewards most women kindly...a pretty 20 year old will probably be a pretty 50 year old she just wont look necessarily look young anymore! If youth is your only beauty criteria than no women over 40 will be pretty in your eyes!
Hmmm...and you're 30 to 35 y.o. and decided that because SOME women that you went to high school with didn't age gracefully, it's determined that ALL women age awful and men just age fantastically. Ok.
Oh come on............you know he's just using generalizations. We all do it from time to time..........the same can apply to men. I went to H.S. with many guys that now have beer bellies, I still have my same slim build.
Imagine someone who used to be good looking but was heavily into partying, drinking, smoking, drugs, etc... that stuff can rapidly contribute to faster aging. Even certain cosmetics like makeup that actually makes you look far worse but yet without it they'd look even uglier.
Men do NOT age better then women... women are more accepting of the flaws... men are very "visual" and have a more difficult time accepting things that are not perfect. there are ALWAYS exceptions but as a rule... many women see past the "visual" and dwell on what makes the man who he is... confident, compasionate, sense of humor.... like I've stated before.. just human nature and behavior... don't always like it but "it is... what it is"...
I'm about to attend my 30th. Many I've found on FB. Some have aged gracefully, some not, some in the middle. (both men and women) It's the natural order of things.
We are taught and conditioned to think older is unattractive. We worship youth.
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