[justjim]

By one definition I read, midlife crisis is experienced between the ages of 40 and 60. According to Jung it is a normal part of the maturing process. It was about age 45 that both my wife and I changed jobs and moved a couple hundred miles from where we had raised our family. It started out as an "economic move" but also became an unexpected change in our lifestyle with adventure and excitement. It was the best move we ever made. Was it a midlife crisis? Don't know----- but it was a maturing process with its ups and downs for sure. The other big change came when we retired. Retirement has been very exciting and this time we moved twelve hundred miles and it has been an even bigger adventure. Who says teenage marriages don't work? Some of our very best friends got married young and they, along with us, have been married 50 years. Someone once said, "you can't stay young forever but you can be immature for the rest of your life." Crisis and change comes to all of us but its how we respond that makes all the difference.