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10 Things People in Your Mid-Life Crisis Won’t Tell You

CiFact
7 min readOct 24, 2021
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I know, I know. You’re in your mid-life crisis and it’s not easy. You’re trying to figure out what the heck is going on with your life, while all of your friends are busy taking care of their kids or have retired completely by now.

I am so sorry you feel this way. It can feel hard to know what’s going on in this phase of life when you’ve never been here before. Believe me though, I am here to help. I am going to share with you the ten things people won’t tell you about having a mid-life crisis, but should.

#1 You Will Feel Powerless Over Your Life and Your Fate

You might be trying to cling onto the life you had planned for yourself and your future. A lot of people can get caught up in what is supposed to happen in their lives and will do whatever they can to try and force that life into existence. A mid-life crisis isn’t just about feeling like things aren’t going your way; it’s about feeling like you’ve lost control over your fate.

You’ll start to feel like everything you’ve worked for and what you wanted to be in your life is falling apart. You will also start to feel like the best way to make things better is to figure out a way to change your life and your fate completely. Sadly, this isn’t true. There will come a point in every…

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