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The End of Suffering: How to Respond to Your Partner’s Midlife Crisis
August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
This is quite a remarkable personal story, very well worth reading. For me, it’s a model, not only for what to do when your partner is undergoing a midlife crisis that threatens your marriage, but for insight into the internal work it takes to reach and maintain such internal certainty, equanimity and resolve when it happens. It can be difficult enough to even recognize when your partner is undergoing a midlife crisis if you’re feeling insecure, or trapped in your own drama or regret of unfulfilled potential, missed opportunity or fears for the future. Certainly the author wasn’t made of stone, surely her moments of pain and rage were very real.
But for me her self-discipline in how she chose to respond is remarkable, something sought after by Buddhist practitioners of mindfulness and lovingkindness practices. She certainly has come to terms with her own aging, and place in life, or perhaps, quite simply, her relationship with nature has lent her singular the wisdom, insight and intuition to hold steady. For me, she’s a rare gem indeed.
The author is a writer (pictured) with her own website. Scores of women have responded to her article in a wide range of ways.
What are your thoughts?
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