Hey guys and welcome to this episode of Keep It Positive Sweetie.

I'm Krista Renee and today we are talking about dating in your 40s and when I think about

dating in your 40s, the first song that came to mind was Destiny's Child Independent

Women.

I'm a women independent, throw your hands up at me.

And when I think of this because I feel like once women get to their 40s, they're still

dating, they're definitely independent.

I know for me, I just turned 40 in October and it was something that clicked.

It was something that clicked.

I'm literally the day I woke up after my party.

And I was like, whoa, I had so much clarity on things and I was very sure about what

I wanted to do, how I wanted it and all those things.

But leading up to that, I work in a very vain industry and an industry that's always looking

for the youngest and the hottest and the next.

And I was worried like, Lord, am I getting older?

And we also have an industry where we don't tell people our age.

So even on my invitation, I was very strategic about not putting that I was turning 40 because

I just didn't want to put that out there.

But everybody found out anyway, so now everybody knows.

But when you're dating in your 40s, there's so many factors that come to place.

Your biological clock is ticking.

Society has put so much stress on, you need to get married by this age.

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