Category: Midlife Crisis

• The Knife’s Edge of Midlife Motherhood

  

  Boomerang kids… Sandwich generation… Failure to launch… Midlife crisis…. On Mother’s Day 2023 — a Mother’s Day in my midlife — I feel many disparate (conflicting?) emotions.  Though I have a “kid” (young adult) living with me, I was not at home to receive (possibly burnt) breakfast in bed. Instead, I spent the night at…

  lisabattalia

  May 14, 2023

  Boomerang kids, dating over 50, Defining Midlife, Exploring midlife, failure to launch, Midlife Crisis, Navigating Midlife, Parenting and midlife, Twenty-somethings living at home

  Boomerang kids, failure to launch, Midlife stories, midlife transitions, Navigating Midlife, sharing midlife stories, thriving in midlife

• What does a 21st-century “Midlife Crisis” look like?

  The article I’ve copied below is from 2019, but its truths do not seem outdated — so I thought I would share. As Ms. Williams notes — citing a prominent expert — because we’ve made such a cliche of midlife: “The period between adolescence and old age has been so disregarded by researchers… that the…

  lisabattalia

  February 19, 2023

  Defining Midlife, Exploring midlife, midlife career transition, Midlife Crisis, Midlife reinvention, What is Midlife

  midlife career transition, Midlife Crisis, Midlife stories, midlife transitions, Navigating Midlife, sharing midlife stories