I've read other comments and i am like hey what wrong with me I am 48, and I feel like I am getting ready for some major difference in my life, but the truth is that I have been unhappy for a total of 8 years.

Carmella of MD
Mar 09, 2009 11:11:40 AM [permalink] [report comment]

My wife's midlife crisis

Deborah,

I'd like to share my wife's midlife story. Within two months she had EIGHT – that is not a misprint - major changes in her life:

- Her eldest daughter, Valerie, graduated from university.

- Then Valerie left for Southeast Asia and Australia for six months to explore the region and reunite with her boyfriend.

- Her youngest daughter, Andrea, finished junior college.

- Andrea soon left to study English on the west coast for five weeks.

- My wife took a sabbatical from her job as a librarian at the high school where she had been working for twelve years.

- She started working full time as a legal assistant with a lawyer.

- She celebrated the 25th anniversary of her arrival in a new country from Colombia.

- And perhaps most important, Jacqueline turned 50.

These eight changes, which may be interpreted as signs of her midlife crisis, really represented important transitions or emotional adaptations to change in her life. They marked the end of one phase of her family, career and inner life and the beginning of new relationships with her daughters and perhaps a new career. These changes provided opportunities to re-orient her life and re-define her emotional and psychological self.

So you see things do get better with age.

Frank Bonkowski. Ph.D. of XX
Dec 07, 2008 16:17:46 PM [permalink] [report comment]

Cost of gas

Gas at $1.10. When I started commuting is was 15 cents a gallon!

John Black of CA
Feb 11, 2008 14:02:24 PM [permalink] [report comment]

Still looking for that pony under . . .

I'm 49, but I plan to be a late bloomer!

GD of MD
Feb 07, 2008 12:02:50 PM [permalink] [report comment]

Happiness in Middle Age

I think happiness in youth may be in unrealistic expectation, and in old age in realistic ones. Middle-age is a reconciling period of life between what could of been, what is, and what is going to be. This may impact happiness as much as confusion about what happiness is. Happiness is the ability to be satisfied with life, it comes with realistic adjustment of our expectations of ourselves. Liking the dip on the scale for instance. For a simple guide to finding happiness in everyday life go to www.happinessinfive.com

Vince Chiles of PA
Feb 07, 2008 05:33:34 AM [permalink] [report comment]

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