70s and 80s

While driving today, I listened to an episode of RTHK's We Are Family. This particular episode was from a while back, but the topic was quite interesting. The focus was on middle-aged women (中女) in the circle. Specifically, they interviewed a "middle-aged" TB.

Lots of interesting things...

Apparently, in HK, for girls, "middle-aged" is considered 26+. -_-''

There is some tendency for single women in their 40s to consider same-sex partners.

Girls are generally rather fluid in terms of their orientation.

But what caught my attention the most was none of this. It was what the guest said about her own experience.

The TB that was interviewed had recently broke up with her gf of one year. She said that she called it off because of communication problems. And these communication problems arose from the age difference. The TB was born in the 70s and was 30+ years old. Her gf was born in the 80s and was 20+ years old. The problem wasn't that they didn't communicate well with each other, but that their experiences were so different that the younger gf could not really understand what the TB was/is going through.

Hearing that kind of made me sad......

*sigh*

This makes me wonder if X had the same thoughts. Did she always find that I didn't understand what she was thinking or going through? The age gap and timing is pretty similar. A 70s person with a 80s person. And the truth is, there are some things that she said to me then that I did not fully understand or appreciate until recently. As much as I'd like to believe that we understood each other, hearing this interview caused me to start doubting that. Maybe I really didn't understand at all?

='(