Just Wait.

[RSE]

Now with social media, you too will get to deal with the High School Reunion Bitter Clingers. My class just had its 45th reunion. I’ve been to two, my 10th because everybody goes to that, and my 30th because I was in the middle of getting divorced and misery loves company.

Most people in my class couldn’t be arsed to go to reunions. I’m pretty sure 5/6 of my class didn’t go to this one but the ones who did are gung ho to make the 50th a real thing.

You know what’s depressing? I saw pictures of the reunion. I don’t have words to describe the state of the women in my class. Even the ones who were good looking back then look like they’ve been through Stalingrad. One of women who attended was a girl who I had a notorious crush on. I last saw her five years later when I was a first year law student and thought she was more beautiful than ever. I know now I dodged a bullet. This is what you are going to see when you go to reunions in your 50s and 60s. The men all look younger than the women.

if you see your wife wearing a dress or outfit and thinking that looks like something my mom would have worn, you have to put a stop to that immediately.

[The Duck]

Absolutely agree with this. Women out there aren't aging well... and don't blame it on the kids, because they're barely having any.

My wife being the exception, obviously. Five kids later, she's still smoking.

[RSE]

If you give them an inch they will take a mile and suddenly the attractive woman you were married to will be a Baba or a Nonna overnight. That requires keeping yourself young too. If you let yourself go you can’t complain when she does it too.

[RSE]

My ex-wife has steadfastly refused to lose her beauty. She is now 60, looks 45, can fit in the clothes she wore when I met her as a teenager, works out 6 days a week, rides her bike, hikes and kayaks on the ocean. Find yourself a woman like that, I mean, a woman like that who won’t dump you because she is having a mid/life crisis at age 40. IYKYK.

[JB]

I just lived exactly what you're talking about....attended my 50th this summer (87 people came back; one from Hawaii) and all of my favorite female classmates hadn't aged well at all...had a team picture with my soccer teammates and we looked pretty damn good (coach came back at 83 and was sharp as tack) you'd think the band would play tunes from our era but they kept going to all this BS they play now....

[RSE]

When the faces start melting - and you older guys know what I mean - it’s too late.

That being said, it is absolutely true that when a man looks at the woman he has been married to for many years, he sees the twenty-something year old girl he married all those years ago.

[JB]

just back from a college friends get together at the Outer Banks of NC (I highly recommend) ditto on the same for the college wives

[The Duck]

When the faces start melting - and you older guys know what I mean - it’s too late.

That being said, it is absolutely true that when a man looks at the woman he has been married to for many years, he sees the twenty-something year old girl he married all those years ago.

It's been 25 years for us, and this is exactly correct. I'm still as attracted to her as I was the night we met. The cool thing is, she doesn't really have to try. She doesn't work out (but she's constantly active and we swim a lot), never been on a diet, the thought of injections or getting any work done is anathema to her, she hardly wears makeup (and looks best in the morning without any at all). She's just a naturally great looking girl.

What she's doing with a tomato like me, I'll never fully comprehend.

[Williejay]

Now with social media, you too will get to deal with the High School Reunion Bitter Clingers. My class just had its 45th reunion. I’ve been to two, my 10th because everybody goes to that, and my 30th because I was in the middle of getting divorced and misery loves company.

Most people in my class couldn’t be arsed to go to reunions. I’m pretty sure 5/6 of my class didn’t go to this one but the ones who did are gung ho to make the 50th a real thing.

You know what’s depressing? I saw pictures of the reunion. I don’t have words to describe the state of the women in my class. Even the ones who were good looking back then look like they’ve been through Stalingrad. One of women who attended was a girl who I had a notorious crush on. I last saw her five years later when I was a first year law student and thought she was more beautiful than ever. I know now I dodged a bullet. This is what you are going to see when you go to reunions in your 50s and 60s. The men all look younger than the women.

if you see your wife wearing a dress or outfit and thinking that looks like something my mom would have worn, you have to put a stop to that immediately.

Lol I just got notification for my 20th. I don’t plan to attend it though and didn’t attend the 10th. Have no interest in seeing out of shape broke bastards I went to high school with. I can see them on Facebook lol

[KenfromCanada]

High school reunions are depressing and it leads to the lowest form of communication, "remember when...." I have no more in common with people that I went to school with 30 yrs ago anymore then I do with a Cowboys fan.

[art vandelay]

Sounds like I have a lot to look forward to.