I'm not saying that women can't embarrass themselves by stocking up on expensive gear used to symbolise youth when they hit their late 40s to 60 (the age-span allotted to undergo a
midlife crisis, according to various internet sources).
How they related to the
midlife crisis theme of "Friends With Money" is anyone's guess, but they definitely made for some interesting viewing.
According to Shellenbarger, a pattern of female
midlife crisis is emerging now because, to put it simply, women are different today.
At Deitch, Super Mario Movie presents the title character in the midst of both a
midlife crisis and a multicolored world of disintegrating data.
Peg Finucane has "finished her
midlife crisis," she says, left Newsday, and is now teaching journalism full-time at Hofstra University on Long Island after juggling a day job, adjunct teaching, and graduate school for several years.
0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives By Finding The Where Of Their Happiness, author Rich Karlgaard used his own personal and professional
midlife crisis as a foundation for considering the roots of the American dream of continuous upward mobility--and how it is present in modern times.
A
midlife crisis is what happens when men have a hard time handling the life changes that typically begin around 40.
It's Only Too Late is aimed at someone in a
midlife crisis (including a list of questions to diagnose a
midlife crisis, like "Do you read plastic surgery ads and keep a secret file with phone numbers of surgeons?
Although more than 25 percent of Americans over age 35 think they have had a
midlife crisis, more than half of these were no more than "stressful life events," says sociologist Elaine Wethington.
Having dedicated all your life to dance--because you are a good dancer--you have no time to prepare any other kind of career, and by the time you become a ripe personality you are heading for a difficult age, the
midlife crisis maybe, and suddenly the director says to you, `Well, thank you very much.
The novel examines the
midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire.
The
midlife crisis, Raphael says, is the working out, late in life, of problems once resolved by rituals of passage.
