Do you get excited for your Birthday (as an adult?)

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I never get excited about my birthday as an adult ao when I was excited about my 50th two years ago you would think my husband would have listened. But he was going through one of his get drunk and lay out of work and be an ass to me phases. My mother was in the hospital and would die a couple weeks later, and i was turning 50. That's officially old. But I made plans. He wouldnt cooperate though. He had to go to his mothers for the A Day game. He didn't go to the game however, he and our oldest son go too drunk the night before. He left on Fri and was coming back Sat, which was my bday but didn't come home till Sunday. And then he was a douche to me.

I don't celebrate it anymore and won't. That was to be my last one. I spent it alone in my mother's apartment cleaning out her mess.

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It means I am still here and somehow managed to survive another year. A very important and yes postive thing.

I don't think I could really get excited about an event that increases the number by which my age is associated with. It sorta annoys me when people try to force excitement onto me. I mean can't I just have a normal quiet day to myself instead of having people shoving cards/presents/congratulations in my face?

Not really. Once my wife's relatives get involved in planning the celebration, there is very little chance that I will get to do what I want.

My parents would be around everytime, so that's accomodating them mostly, I thought I would throw a party for 50 years, not people around the table talking and making me an unneccessairy item, but a party. Nope, mother and mother in law died and husband heartattacked, not partytime at all. O well, it wouldn't have been as wanted, anyway.

I enjoy my birthday because it's a day all about me, and it's fun to receive gifts. But I don't know how much attention I should bring to it. Should I tell people it's my birthday and have them wish me a happy birthday? Should I not mention it at all because I'm too old to really celebrate it? I like the attention I get, but I don't know how appropriate it is to receive it at my age.

I still do, even at age 29. My mom always made a big deal out of my birthday (and I'm an only child); there was always family coming over, my mom always got me great presents and cake even though we were poor.

Into my teens and up to now, I have stopped celebrating my birthday elaborately. Some years I don't celebrate at all, other years it's just a small gathering with my relatives. But even when I don't celebrate, I get excited about my birthday. Last year, I had no opportunity to celebrate my 28th, so I just bought a couple boxes of chocolates and handed them out to my co-workers, just so I could have a bit of a birthday feeling.

I don't get quite as excited as I did when I was a kid, but the last one I was more excited because it was my 40th birthday.

My next birthday will be my 21st, which might be the biggest milestone age there is. I don't plan to drink or do anything like that, though.

No, and I tend to not like holidays much either. They remind me too much of family get-togethers that frequently wound up ending in two people fighting and not speaking to each other for months (usually not me). My wife is the same way, so we pick random days to celebrate instead, just to give ourselves a treat ("Happy anniversary of the invention of the television! Let's get ourselves a TV!" "Happy Birling Day! Let's fly to Florida!"). That way there's no inflated expectation of what a birthday or Christmas is "supposed" to be like.

For some reason, I felt proud that I became Double Nickels (age 55)!

I still get pretty excited when it's my birthday. I'm just a kid at heart!

No, I hate it. There is nothing good about getting older at this point, I'd be excited if I had something to be excited about. Getting older now is just depressing more than anything.