Australian fitness coach Sam Loch has said that he won’t be celebrating turning forty because birthday celebrations are for “women and kids.”
Loch is famously married to ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s daughter Frances.
They’ve been together for half a decade but got engaged after only dating for a fortnight.
When a fan innocently asked Loch how he was planning to have a good time his milestone fortieth birthday he wrote back a really surprising response.
No, he wasn’t planning a lavish party, a pleasant dinner and even happening a vacation to have a good time 4 a long time of being alive, fairly he explained that he wouldn’t be embracing an enormous celebration.
“My outlook is basically that birthdays are for girls and kids and that merely surviving one other lap across the sun is just not necessarily a reason for celebration,” he wrote.
“Nevertheless my wife made a very good point just a few years back that birthdays are a chance for the those that love you to have a good time you. That softened my position a bit,” he continued.
So what could change this man’s hardline view on birthdays?
Well, something pretty easy.
He admitted that he liked “round numbers,” so turning forty was a bit more appealing to him than the typical odd-number birthday and he’d have a good time his big day by utilizing it as a chance to be “thankful.”
After all, there isn’t actually any truth to celebrating a birthday being a gendered thing.
It isn’t feminine or masculine to need to eat cake in your birthday or throw a celebration.
Loch can also be a former Olympic rower turned prolific weightlifter and even previously set a world record in indoor rowing.
Meanwhile, Frances is a former bodybuilder turned mum and the 2 are quite the muscled power couple.
He has over 16,000 Instagram followers and he’s a giant fan of posting workout videos.
The couple are fairly private but Loch did recently post a sweet photo of the couple and write about their very temporary courtship.
“It’s a daring move asking someone to marry you two weeks after the day you met and it’s incredibly brave to say yes and follow through.
“I trusted my gut enough to ask, which was one of the best decision of my life. 5 years later and we’re still going strong,” he said. “Thanks for saying ‘Are you serious’ then ‘After all’ and eventually ‘I do.”
Loch has also posted a sweet couple snap of the 2 of them and called them “Power Rangers of Love,” previously.
The couple resides in Portland within the US state of Oregon.