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

Author:Ada Calhoun [Calhoun, Ada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611854671
Google: jkDADwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0802147852
Goodreads: 46819016
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2019-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

I saw my friend Nikita again not long ago. She seemed more relaxed. When I asked about her marriage, she told me things were better. A few months after her husband first broached the open-marriage question, she was no longer nursing their baby and felt as though she could at least have the conversation without getting mad. But by that point, her husband was no longer interested in the idea. “‘So, you just worked through it?’ she asked him. ‘Meanwhile, you put me through months of processing and now you’ve decided, “Oh, maybe I don’t really care anymore.” It was just a phase?’”

That was the gist. Recalling this conversation to me, she sighed.

That decision about her marriage had been made, and some others, too. The older kids were in better schools; the youngest would be starting preschool before too long. Renovations on their new home were almost finished. Renting out the New York place brought in enough money that she didn’t have to work. Still, she wants to do more with her life. She’s just not sure what that is.

“My entire life, whenever I’ve made big changes it’s been because of a moment of clarity: Aha! This is what I’m supposed to do!” she said. “I think whatever’s supposed to come next will reveal itself. I hope it will.”

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