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Nobody Warned Us That Midlife Would Feel Like This

Maskot/Getty ImagesI recently wrote a piece about how so many women my age are secretly (or not so secretly, in some cases) fantasizing about blowing up our lives and starting over. Finally going all in on that bookstore we’re always joking with our friends about opening. But the longer I sat with that itch, the more I realized the bookstore is just a symptom. The actual thing underneath it is something even more mysterious: I’m standing here, in the literal middle of my own life, wondering why it doesn’t feel anything like I thought it would.I know I’m not alone in this.So, I asked some exper...