HeyJaredMIDLIFE MUSINGS AND MAYHEM
Midlife Crisis or Midlife Clarity? Reflections from a Gen X Rebel. Navigating mid-life and reinvention. Perimenopausal and sick and tired of this topsy turvy life but won't change it for nothing. I am ageing disgracefully and unapologetic about it
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Too Old, Too Early (opens the original)
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Hey Midlife crew,Turns out I’ve been failing two audits at once, and neither of them had the decency to send a rejection email.One’s an Applicant Tracking System, quietly deciding I “read old” before a human ever opens the file. The other is my own hormones, who started renegotiating the terms of our relationship a full year before my white girlfriends’ did, and told absolutely nobody. Two systems, zero warning, same energy: thanks for your application, we’ve gone with someone who ages more conv
Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be (Great Advice, Terrible Life Plan) #MMM ISSUE 19 (opens the original)
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Hey Midlife crew,When you are broke, nobody warns you about your “world” shrinking. That’s the word I keep coming back to. Not the bank balance, the world.MIDLIFE MUSINGS AND MAYHEM is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<inp
BENIGN ENVY #MMM ISSUE18 (opens the original)
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Hey Midlife crew,There’s a feeling I’ve been having on repeat this year, and it took me embarrassingly long to admit it has a name because for a while I genuinely thought I was just becoming a terrible person - I was ready to blame the Perimenopause.Here’s the scenario, and if you’re Gen X, Xennial or Millennial, I promise you’ve lived it under fluorescent office lighting, in a group chat, or scrolling at 11pm pretending it’s “just checking the weather.” Someone you know does something extraordi
Two Nights Out, Two Months to Recover #MMMIssue17 (opens the original)
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Hey Midlife Crew,July just flown by… and though I was dreading a summer without a proper vacation as one aint got no money for that, I have enjoyed myself immensely doing global “type shit” locally. Quite uncharacteristically of this version of me in Midlife, I went out two nights in a row last weekend, and as I type this I am, medically and physically speaking, done. Finished. Not “having a quiet one” done. I mean done for the quarter. My body has issued a formal cease and desist. I drink elect
Here's the Mini Manual You Didn't Ask For... (opens the original)
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For as long as I can remember - apparently the only preparation anyone thought women needed for midlife was...“You’ll be fine.”Reader...Respectfully...We are not fine.MIDLIFE MUSINGS AND MAYHEM is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<
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