Skip navigation.
... Midlife Improvement

Get Our Newsletter!

Stay up to date on midlife issues -- subscribe to our monthly email newsletter (you can easily unsubscribe later)!

Email address:

Your LifeTwo

In this area, registered users see recommendations, set bookmarks, and track what their buddies are up to. For more on the benefits of registering, go here.

User login

Subscribe in a Reader:

XML feed

Use the icon above to subscribe to LifeTwo's Home Page in a reader like My Yahoo or Google Reader (see this page to learn more about RSS and for information on our other feeds). Or if you use one of the following services, just click on its icon:

Add to Google

Add to My Yahoo!

Add to My AOL


New On LifeTwo's Homepage

Recent Discussions

Netflix, Inc.

"Midlife Crisis at 30"

Wesley's picture

After receiving a user-contribution from "Wonder Woman"...

I'm a 34 year old woman (or is it over-grown college girl?) in the depths of a what I now know to be a midlife crisis. Over the past 2 years, I divorced my husband because "I wasn't in love with him," changed jobs 3 times, went back to college briefly, moved to a new city and divorced my mother whom I believe to be the root cause of all of this chaos in the first place. I've read most of the information on this site, however it really is aimed at a different generation than me, so I am having difficulty relating. Can anyone point me to helpful 30-something resources, besides the book, "Midlife Crisis at 30?" Any info is greatly appreciated.

...we've gone on a quest to find more information on the topic. But first we thought it was worth sharing more information on the book that Wonder Woman mentions, "Midlife Crisis at 30." To do so we turn to friend and expert Nicolette Beard who had already written about this very book.

Just as girls reach puberty earlier than do boys, apparently women face a midlife crisis earlier than their male counterparts. I remember turning 35 and feeling as though my life was finished. I thought I hadn't accomplished enough (though I'd owned my own business,) or attained financial independence (though I'd been supporting myself comfortably for the previous seven years.) Fortunately, I re-invented myself based on choices important to me. With that experience behind me I can now view my husband's ups and downs with the understanding that midlife gyrations are part of a larger process of re-evaluating and re-energizing one's life.

A new book, Midlife Crisis at 30, written by two media professionals, label the components of 30-something angst. It sounds very much like the male midlife crisis.

Nicolette notes that "A crisis is only a crisis if we react and don't respond to changing life circumstances."

Here is what one Amazon reviewer said about the book:

Informative and insightful, this book looks at the culture of life choices of the women of Generations X and Y and concludes that a number of life stressors are now coinciding for women at age 30.

0
 
 

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Anonymous's picture

Midlife Crisis at 30 for males?

I found this post while goggling midlife crisis at 30.
I will be hitting 30 in a few months and am constantly confused and depressed about life in general. I do not think I like my profession anymore despite all my sacrifices for it and the fact that I just took a new job! away from my family. But am not sure what would job would make me happy... I keep thinking that I have all this time ahead of me and with all the choices available I am not sure how to best fill it. Moreover, I find myself thinking about old friends and relationships from HS and College..I do feel like I am having a midlife crisis. I am not sure if anyone feels the same way or is it just me. I am not sure where to start...

Post new comment

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <b> <i> <u> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <p> <hr> <blockquote> <table> <tr> <td> <!--break-->
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.