Sentences with phrase «divorced at midlife»

But when I divorced at midlife with stuff (a house, a car, a dog and, most important, young kids) it was much more complicated.

When I divorced at midlife, my mother and I began to have conversations we'd never had before — not just mother to daughter, but woman to woman, wife to wife, mother to mother.

It wasn't until I got divorced at midlife, a mother of two, that I asked my mother if she was happy with marriage and motherhood; it was a mixed response.

I didn't really understand the impact of monogamy on women until I divorced at midlife, when I already had fulfilled certain womanly roles, like being a wife and mom.

But, of course it is, evidenced by anyone who gets a divorce at midlife and starts over with someone new.

The beauty of divorce at midlife is that we are free to create the life we want without societal expectations of what it «should» look like.

Not exact matches

But when I divorced the second time — at age 48, with two young children — the internet was beginning to shove the midlife post-divorce reinvention thing in my face.

It has been 10 years since my (second) divorce, and while in some ways my life became harder and in other ways easier, there was one thing I hadn't anticipated about being suddenly single at midlife — freedom.

But, that was decades ago, and some stuff has happened since then — a divorce, years as a more - confident young single woman, a second marriage, another divorce, being single with kids in my late 40s, having a few committed relationships at midlife and finding myself single again at an age that feels, well probably is, old.

But when I was newly divorced and went back into the workplace full time, at midlife something happened — I got my mojo back.

57 percent of men and 54 percent of women who remarried after a midlife divorce have sex at least once a week.

«Having more midlife FLEs, particularly relating to divorce / separation or a family death, was associated with advanced predicted brain aging,» said Sean Hatton, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego School of Medicine and the study's first author.

We interview the Dating Goddess, a midlife woman who, after her husband of 20 years surprised her with a divorce announcement at age 48, turned her search for her next mate into an adventure.