Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

by Ada Calhoun

It begins with facing up to our lives as they really are, letting go of the expectations we had for ourselves growing up, and finishes with finding a viable support system and realizing that this stage of life doesn’t last

You know how to do this already: love when it’s difficult. It’s a superpower. You just need to use it for yourself, too.”

I feel terror. I become convinced that not only have I put my credit score or my family’s budget in jeopardy, I’ve set back the cause of feminism and endangered my freedom. I don’t just feel broke; I feel doomed.