BIRTHDAY BLUES: Why some of us cry on our birthday (and what to do about it)
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox talk honestly about the emotional hangover that can hit around birthdays — especially when you’re feeling behind, overwhelmed by expectations, or carrying grief into another year. From childhood memories and milestone shame to the fear of ageing, loneliness, and the desire to feel seen, they unpack why birthdays can sting even when life is good.
They also explore how to turn birthdays into something gentler: a chance to celebrate growth, honour who you are now, and find gratitude without forcing joy or pretending everything’s perfect.
Tender, relatable, and funny in all the right places — this episode is a reminder that getting older isn’t something to fear. It’s something to live through, learn from, and sometimes cry about… then eat cake anyway. 🎂
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| 0:00.0 | Today is a very special episode of late bloomers because we have an in-house birthday. |
| 0:06.8 | Oh God. |
| 0:08.0 | We're doing a whole episode. |
| 0:09.3 | No. |
| 0:09.9 | Come on. |
| 0:10.8 | How old are you? |
| 0:12.2 | 40? |
| 0:13.0 | I love it. |
| 0:13.6 | I love that you're in your 40s now. |
| 0:15.3 | You can finally stop making jokes. |
| 0:18.8 | I mean, you were there a long time ago, though. |
| 0:20.9 | Like a year ago? |
| 0:21.9 | A year and a half. |
| 0:38.4 | Two years? A year. Oh, right, yeah. Year and a month. Can you stop trying to make me older than I am? Like, this is late blooms. We're not ashamed of growing older, but do you know what you mean? Let's not rush it. We're actually going to do a birthday episode. it's going to be about the birthday blues, |
| 0:40.8 | which I think we both know quite a lot about. |
| 0:40.8 | How, We're actually going to do a birthday episode. It's going to be about the birthday blues, which I think we both know quite a lot about how we really feel about getting older, how we feel about being celebrated. |
| 0:47.9 | So this is late bloomers where we are getting our lives together, even when we're old. |
| 0:52.9 | Eventually, when we're 40. Yeah. when we're 40, we're literally 40 years old. |
| 0:58.8 | So what's this about this? It's obviously not just about my birthday, right? No, but it's inspired by |
| 1:04.4 | the fact that it's your birthday and the fact that birthdays are quite loaded in society, aren't they? |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | There's a sort of expectation to have the most amazing day ever, |
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