Midlife Crisis Culture When I was 25, a male friend of mine was 39, rapidly approaching 40 and he was suffering a midlife crisis. At the age of 25 I had no concept of the meaning of midlife crisis, and I remember him thrusting the book Passages (Sheehy 19 ) at me and he said it would explain it all. I read the book and at the time I thought scathingly what a load of nonsense. A good excuse to wallow …showed first 75 words of 471 total…

…showed last 75 words of 471 total…their children leaving home. Women needed to adjust to being alone with their partner after many years of having children in the house. Although this may have been true in the 1970’s, today many women delay having children until their 30’s. Therefore at 40, the children are still very dependent and still definitely at home. My children were 8 and 10 at the time, and as I write that I wander how on earth did I leave them?