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Mid Life Crisis

No Job, No Man, No Sleep

Vicki Abelson | Posted 05.21.2013 | Fifty
Vicki Abelson

Being single again at this stage of my life doesn't thrill me, but that's not what's keeping the sandman at bay.

You Can't Go Home Again, But You Can Make Yourself Your Home

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.15.2013 | Healthy Living
Vivian Norris

A recent wave of nostalgia accompanied by trips back "home", have had me pondering why we sometimes think that what we left behind might contain somet...

A To-Don't List

Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 04.05.2013 | Fifty
Annabelle Gurwitch

I'm making my own list of things you know by the time you're 50 and it's got just one item on it.

If There Can Be a Church of the Jedi, Then I Belong to the Church of Rudy

Mandy Fox-Raynor | Posted 03.27.2013 | Fifty
Mandy Fox-Raynor

Do you remember that movie from the '90s about the short kid who wanted to play football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish? Well, if I were going to belong to any particular religion, it would be one lead by that guy.

Fitness Is Easy, Happy Is Hard

Penny Love | Posted 04.24.2013 | Divorce
Penny Love

Fitness is obtained via the head but happiness comes via the heart.

A Potluck Is a Perfect Place for a Mid-life Crisis

Jody Melto | Posted 12.11.2012 | DC
Jody Melto

The worst thing about going to a potluck is not knowing it's a potluck until you arrive. Like last Saturday.

10 Ways To Spark New Insight

Sura | Posted 11.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Sura

Life changes as we change. It's a natural part of life. Accepting these inevitable changes are instrumental to our personal health and happiness. Making new decisions can be challenging.

A Different Way to Have a Midlife Crisis

Michael Neill | Posted 11.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Michael Neill

To the extent that I identify with whatever impersonal energy, force, or intelligence it is that animates not only our bodies but also the entire world that they inhabit, a midlife crisis is no more or less than an invitation to awaken to our true spiritual identity.

Life Lessons I Learned From Magic Mike

Jenny Isenman | Posted 09.17.2012 | Women
Jenny Isenman

On my way to see Magic Mike with my besties, all I could think was, are we the only ones rushing out to see this peep show... and how hard up does this make us?

10 Reasons Women In Their 40s Have Affairs

Samantha Parent Walravens | Posted 09.15.2012 | Divorce
Samantha Parent Walravens

Over the past few years, I've witnessed a growing number of married couples in my fortysomething peer group calling it quits. Not surprisingly, infidelity is a factor in many of these breakups. What is surprising is that it's the women -- not the men-- who are cheating.

Turning 40: Ways Every Woman Can Live In 4-D

Lisa Hickman | Posted 07.31.2012 | Religion
Lisa Hickman

When the number forty appears in the Bible, the reader knows a change is about to take place. In Scripture, the number forty marks a moment of transition, transformation and transcendence.

It's None of Your Business: How to Keep Friends and Your Privacy

Mark Matousek | Posted 12.27.2011 | Fifty
Mark Matousek

How is it possible for an ordinary, controlling individual to care intensely about his friends without trying to change them? How can we give our treasured advice without feeling attached to its implementation?

Are You A MAMIL?

www.high50.com | Posted 12.14.2011 | Fifty

If anyone were looking for evidence that in the 21st century we are just as snobbish as ever we have been, then you only have to look at the acronyms ...

An Older Generation Falls Prey To Anorexia

www.empowher.com | Posted 12.14.2011 | Fifty

Because most people associate eating disorders with adolescent girls, it may surprise them to learn that there are quite a few middle-aged people suff...

The Key To Avoiding A Midlfe Crisis?

www.dailymail.co.uk | Posted 12.06.2011 | Fifty

Most women treasure the time they spend with their closest girlfriends. And according to new research, it is exactly this that makes women in mid-l...

Transitions: Why is it So Tough to Get Through Them?

Angella Nazarian | Posted 12.02.2011 | Women
Angella Nazarian

How can it be that I can still feel so close to that person I was then and yet have a child that is literally the age of the girls that I see before me?

How Are You

Ginna Christensen | Posted 10.24.2011 | Impact
Ginna Christensen

The poet David Whyte once said, "The soul would rather fail at its life than succeed at somebody else's. Below is an image of a woman unsure of ho...

Why Some People Go Crazy When Their Children Get Married

May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. | Posted 09.17.2011 | Parents
May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

This is a moment in which we may feel enormous loss, depression, deflation. We are challenged on so many fronts, but a significant one involves having to face something of which we may not have been aware: the secret plan we never knew we had for these later chapters in our life.

Men of a Certain Age Combines Insight With Comedy

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.31.2011 | Entertainment
Marcia G. Yerman

From the first episode, I was hooked. Not only did I get psychological moments of revelatory truth in a weekly show, I also got belly laughs that made my sides hurt.

An American Woman Expat's View on Strauss-Kahn

Vivian Norris | Posted 07.23.2011 | World
Vivian Norris

A real man can control himself and a real woman knows her own power does not come from being seductive. But until adults start acting like adults and the Machiavellian nonsense behind the scenes stops, we are going to keep heading in the wrong direction.

Barack Obama's Midlife Crisis, or 50 Ain't What It Used to Be

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Joanne Bamberger

As Obama navigates the 2012 election, more wars than we'd like to admit, the still-faltering economy and a host of other issues, I sure as hell don't want the him focused on his graying hair or the bags under his eyes.

WATCH: Can There Be Midlife Without The Crisis?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Middle-aged man abruptly buys a red sportscar, becomes a gym rat and leaves his wife for his receptionist, all in a frenzied attempt to reverse the cl...

The Midlife Crisis Is A Myth

LiveScience | Robin Nixon | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

By Robin Nixon LiveScience We all nod, acknowledging the inevitable midlife crisis. One made Monica Lewinsky famous, another won an Academy Award for...

Hot Flashes: Dirty Jasmine

Mimi Schmir | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Mimi Schmir

There's a fine line between love and vomit, in my experience.

Aging And Happiness: A Lesson From Abraham And Sarah

Lillian Daniel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Lillian Daniel

Real happiness lies in our ability to take ourselves, and our own big plans, a little less seriously. So spiritual maturity and laughter go hand in hand.