So, are you saying you're a distressed old hat? Now, don't be so hard on yurself darl'in.

Lol

SO, I guess I should talk to the hand?

And the price of the toys

Off course it's true. But I think life experience is even more important than age. Experience can affect a person of maturity.

I couldn't agree with you more.

Age and maturity are worlds apart, iv been in relationships with younger women who are mature enough to handle it, but have known women who have known older men then them who can't !

AGE can suggest maturity but I would not say it tells much past that.

Other factors usually tell you more. Are they a good communicator, stably employed, do they have functional long term relationships, have they done something that shows they can meet more than their on wants and needs, have they contributed to country or community, have they educated themselves or mastered serious skills, do they demonstrate responsibility?

What shows a serious lack of maturity is trying to create a persona, being over eager, being late, arguing just to hear themselves talk, unstable lifestyle or career, chronic anger or negative perceptions, and inability to adapt to conditions that change unexpectedly.

A lot of couples LOOK LIKE they are mismatched, each person brings something special into a relationship, that's what feeds it! And differences in age and maturity are equally important.

Age is just an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

How mature I am depends on the situation I am in. IF I am at a restaurant I won't be throwing food at the other diners. But when I am at a party with a group of close friends/family anything goes, as long as we're all having fun.

I will drink to this

Met plenty of older women who were way more immature than their younger counterparts

Age is something that happens to all of us. It is also a state of mind. There are plenty of people chronologically younger than I am who are also much older than I am.

That's not to say that they are more mature. They hardly ever laugh, they are often under a great deal of stress and some of them tend to drink a bit to much or get caught up in status or material possessions.

A mature person recognizes their limits both physically and emotionally, lives within their means and is smart enough to not stay in a job that they hate. They laugh and pay little heed to other peoples definition of success because they realize that happiness is much more valuable than money, status or titles. A mature person is able to be silly with the children in their lives, and most often has a ready laugh and a smile on their face.

hmmm interesting,Iam 50 but i feel 35 most of the time,and yes i act it to,,Iam the typ that likes to smile and make others smile by joking around,but i can and is mature when i need to be,,one of these days iam gona grow up,

I think for everyone it's different. It seems to others who know me that in the past 10 years I've matured a lot. And it seems, as I get older, I get wiser. I don't do the dumb things I use to do. When I was a little guy/version of my dad, my dad told me, "Son, If you don't want to be picked on by other kids, Find the biggest kid in your age bracket and beat his ar.se".

I did just that. By the time I was in junior high I was known as the crazy kid that was best left alone. By the time I was 18, you couldn't tell me nothing. One day I decided to walk up to the biggest guy in the bar and kick his ar.se.

That day I got my arse handed to me on a platter. That young man beat me silly. But, I did learn a lesson that day. And I mean a bigger lesson it was.

As we go through life we should be paying attention to the mistakes we make along the way. And learning from them. If we learn from our past mistakes, we are allowing ourselves to grow and go forward. If we never learn, Life hands us our ar.ses on a platter until we do.