joyblack

Yes, now. But I sure wasn't brave as a teenager. I reckon I'm much more confident now. At 54, I can look at what's happened with the girls I was in high school with -- and I reckon that I haven't done too badly at all. In fact, I've done better than the girls I thought of as being "sexy" in high school. I've got a great DH. Still married to him after more than thirty years. (As a teenager I thought no guy would want me. And there's not very many of the girls I was in high school with are still married to the same guy after thirty years!) Great sex life (away back in high school I never thought I would have any sort of sex life, and I don't think very many of the girls I was in high school with still have much of a sex life at all now). And I've got kids (and not all the girls I was in high school with have kids). And I reckon that though I didn't have the confidence to relate much to guys in high school, I can relate to guys better now than most of the girls who were all over the boys at high school. So I've got reason to be confident.

If only I'd known forty years ago what I know now! If only I'd been more confident then, I could have saved myself a great deal of worry and depression.