What was your midlife crisis moment? How did you overcome it?
October 19, 2025
What was your midlife crisis moment? How did you overcome it?
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Post menopause, sitting listening at dinner to a self centered male talking (moaning) about his day – again – and I thought ‘is this all there is? ‘, and I decided to leave.
Unfortunately there were unconsidered consequences – the most serious of which – having 2 adolescent children – that I should have put first. And I didn’t and will bitterly regret that for the rest of my life.
However, 19 years on, my relationship with my children has recovered (I hope). But I will never know whether it would have been better had I behaved differently
Currently going through a quarter life “crisis” (although, more of a “shift” since I’m not really in crisis mode). I am heavily considering moving to a different part of the United States. I’ve lived in the Midwest almost my whole life and one day thought “is this it???”. My husband is on board with considering the move and we have a trip booked to check out the area we think we’d like to move to in a few weeks. The feedback we’ve got from everyone we’ve asked has been a resounding “go for it!” Or “if I was your age, I would move too”. It’s all very exciting, but scary at the same time to think about leaving behind everything we’ve ever known.
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Post menopause, sitting listening at dinner to a self centered male talking (moaning) about his day – again – and I thought ‘is this all there is? ‘, and I decided to leave.
Unfortunately there were unconsidered consequences – the most serious of which – having 2 adolescent children – that I should have put first. And I didn’t and will bitterly regret that for the rest of my life.
However, 19 years on, my relationship with my children has recovered (I hope). But I will never know whether it would have been better had I behaved differently
Currently going through a quarter life “crisis” (although, more of a “shift” since I’m not really in crisis mode). I am heavily considering moving to a different part of the United States. I’ve lived in the Midwest almost my whole life and one day thought “is this it???”. My husband is on board with considering the move and we have a trip booked to check out the area we think we’d like to move to in a few weeks. The feedback we’ve got from everyone we’ve asked has been a resounding “go for it!” Or “if I was your age, I would move too”. It’s all very exciting, but scary at the same time to think about leaving behind everything we’ve ever known.