Most people don't realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still here but smaller, and nobody in the house is being raised anymore

Most people don't realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still here but smaller, and nobody in the house is being raised anymore

For decades, the dominant warning about midlife went something like this: the empty nest will hit when the last child leaves, you will cry for a week, and then you will rediscover yourself through ...
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