Mid-life crises
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laklak
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Late 30s? Ian, you've got a LONG way to go yet. I didn't even move back overseas till I was 41, didn't meet Mrs. Lak till I was 47. I was slogging through a miserable, failed marriage and was ready for a change. Since then I've lived all over the world, got divorced and then married again, have a new, very large reconstituted family living on 4 continents, a whole new career and am having the time of my life. Wouldn't trade a minute of it. If what I went through was a mid life crisis then I say bring it on.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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No shortcuts, Gallstones?
Ah well. I kinda figured.
You sound so happy, it's nice to be near your posts these days. Makes me think you're probably giving me good advice.
Except that one bit, about babies growing up fast!
Ah well. I kinda figured.
You sound so happy, it's nice to be near your posts these days. Makes me think you're probably giving me good advice.
Except that one bit, about babies growing up fast!
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Gallstone and hades 
One of you is about ten years "older" than me in parenting and the other about ten years "younger", so reading both of your thoughts & feelings gives valuable and heartwarming perspective. Thank you for sharing!
And yes there are no shortcuts - basic math, physics and programming classes that I had been putting off for more than a decade taught me that 2007-2010. Better accept reality late than never - but earlier would have been better.
One of you is about ten years "older" than me in parenting and the other about ten years "younger", so reading both of your thoughts & feelings gives valuable and heartwarming perspective. Thank you for sharing!
And yes there are no shortcuts - basic math, physics and programming classes that I had been putting off for more than a decade taught me that 2007-2010. Better accept reality late than never - but earlier would have been better.
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How about a plan that you will, ASAP, bring your family to Oz and spend 6 months touring around in a 4WD, seeing amazing sights?
And while in Melbourne, we can go on a pub crawl while Bron fusses over your wife and kids!
(this post sponsored by the Australian Tourist Bureau...)
And while in Melbourne, we can go on a pub crawl while Bron fusses over your wife and kids!
(this post sponsored by the Australian Tourist Bureau...)
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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This is actually a dream of my husbands. I'll let you know when we hit the lottery.JimC wrote:How about a plan that you will, ASAP, bring your family to Oz and spend 6 months touring around in a 4WD, seeing amazing sights?
And while in Melbourne, we can go on a pub crawl while Bron fusses over your wife and kids!
(this post sponsored by the Australian Tourist Bureau...)
We danced.
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I find I'm happier in my life now at 41 than I was in my 20s or 30s. I don't have the body I had then, but I also don't have the bullshit either. I love my job, my friends, my little dog, little apartment, and little garden. I don't have to answer to anyone which is quite nice as well.
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Re: Mid-life crises
Thanks for the post, and welcome to the forum!Saoirse wrote:I find I'm happier in my life now at 41 than I was in my 20s or 30s. I don't have the body I had then, but I also don't have the bullshit either. I love my job, my friends, my little dog, little apartment, and little garden. I don't have to answer to anyone which is quite nice as well.
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Thanks! (curtsies)
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Love the avatar.Saoirse wrote:Thanks! (curtsies)
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
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Love the avatar.
Thank you. Some days, I really wish I could do that.
Thank you. Some days, I really wish I could do that.
“Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?”― Lewis Black
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Saoirse-- I've always liked that name. Even though I have to double-check my spelling.
Welcome!
Welcome!
The green careening planet
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Listen. No one listens. Meow.
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Listen. No one listens. Meow.
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Love the About me!!! "Coffee keeps me from killing stupid people" - hello thereXamonas Chegwé wrote:Love the avatar.Saoirse wrote:Thanks! (curtsies)
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Ooh, I hadn't realised we had a new person in here! Hello and welcome!
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Welcome in, Saoirse.
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