I’m an Unmarried, Childfree Woman About To Turn 30 and I Feel Just Fine

<p>In a little over a couple of weeks, I&rsquo;ll be exactly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/elc8yg/leonardo_dicaprio_refuses_to_date_a_woman_his_age/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">five years too old</a>&nbsp;to be dating Leonardo di Caprio.</p> <p>Yup, I&rsquo;m turning 30.</p> <p>And it&rsquo;s near-impossible not to notice that it&rsquo;s one of those milestone birthdays that&rsquo;s still often treated as a really,&nbsp;<em>really&nbsp;</em>Big Deal. Perhaps even more so for those of us who belong to the female part of the population.</p> <p>If you were to believe Hollywood rom-coms and trashy magazines and the opinions of people mentally stuck somewhere in the last century, it&rsquo;s almost the end of the world. And unless you get married, have a brood of kids and a mortgage for a sizeable house before you reach the big 3&ndash;0, there&rsquo;s something seriously&nbsp;<em>wrong</em>&nbsp;with you.</p> <p>Gosh, aren&rsquo;t you embarrassed not to be living a life straight out of a 1950s housewife catalogue yet?</p> <p>What have you been doing all these years?</p> <p>Trying to survive? Come on, silly, you should&rsquo;ve just cut down on all those bloody takeaway coffees and avocado toasts.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/im-an-unmarried-childfree-woman-about-to-turn-30-and-i-feel-just-fine-236f335e713c"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>