What did you you think you would have by your current age that you don't?

I thought I would have grandchildren but I want my children to be happy and healthy and at the moment they are so I'm grateful for that . I just wish sometimes that other people would stop asking me as if my life is half empty or incomplete because I'm not a grandma . One thing I've realised is life just happens , you can't foresee or plan ahead . Make the most of every day .Life is short so be grateful for everyday you share with your loved ones . Today is a gift and tomorrow is never promised .

TiggyW

A bungalow, with a flat garden in a flat road within walking distance of shops, and no HMOs nearby.

I don't think I knew anything about HMOs until about 1990.
At that point I don't think they were even known as that.

Most people my age has grandchildren. I do not have any, not yet anyway but for me, it is a case of ‘You can't miss what you never had’.

If my DD were to tell me she is pregnant, both me and my DH will be worried since the hospitals in the city she lives have the worst track record in maternity care.

Her friend had a harrowing experience during childbirth, her baby was lucky to be alive.

i suppose its good i have been with my partner 10 years but i wish one of my previous relationships/marriages had worked out instead of leaving me with unhappy memories.
it would have been nice to own our own home though i am thankful for the lovely bungalow the housing association let us move to.
also the list of long term illness' keeps getting longer so i never thought i would have an old age (62) crippled with pain
finally i wish i had not lost my darling mum so young and losing my dad over 20 years ago. so many people still have their parents at my age

Peace & quiet

A bungalow, with a flat garden in a flat road within walking distance of shops, and no HMOs nearby.

Not sure I imagined I would ever be this old.

DH and I both have reasonable health. Happy, successful children and ditto GCs. Live in a nice village, with good friends and neighbours, can't complain.

Warm loving children to look after me, didnt happen

Dempie55

A piano

You can have mine. I love it because my daughter used to play it and I have such fond memories of being upstairs and hearing her play it downstairs ( her two boys both play, too, which I think is lovely) but I only have a small house and it takes up so much room. A piano needs to be played

A piano

I wonder when you were thinking CrazyUSA?
You said:

What did you you think you would have by your current age that you don't?

I immediately went back to my teen years and thought about what I expected when I was old(er).

What I thought about my old(er) age when I was in my 20s/ 40s/ 60s was very different to my teens - as understanding comes with life experience.

So what age were you thinking please?
And what age were other grandparents expecting they'd have grandchildren but don't?
Or motor homes or death but don't?

How old were people expecting these things?

I just didn't really think. Probably have a man around, which I don't, but it was divorce.

I liked the reply above Kartush said, "Common sense, maturity, wisdom all those things they tell you come with old age". 🧐

One day maybe.

I thought I would have had a happier and more settled life than I have.
My H has died but that was not unexpected,he was 83 ,had dementia and cancer, sad but inevitable.
However my two AC , D in her 60’s my S in mid 50’s are both divorced and no new partners.
I would hazard that both are not particularly happy. I have 6 GC and two GGd’s.
I have reasonably good relationships but fairly distant with some of them so am content about that but the idealistic idea I had when I married is a pipe dream.
Perhaps it is for most people.

Death.

Grand children

I never looked to the future but I am lucky as I can’t think of anything I would change.

Common sense, maturity, wisdom all those things they tell you come with old age

My beautiful daughter, who died 6 months ago from cancer.

Never, ever thought I’d reach my seventies. Mum died early 50s and Dad early 60s. Thought I’d be lucky to reach late 50s 😁 so didn’t really plan for my seventies. Decent pensions have helped!

My lovely husband and more than 1 grandchild.

To be happily married and have good health which I haven't either

Unfortunately me 2

A waist

We always said that we'd have enough children to fill a vicarage. Sadly, the more children we had, the more the vicarage retreated.

My lovely husband.