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By Cathy Meyer, About.com Guide to Divorce Support

Surviving Your Spouse's Midlife Crisis

Wednesday August 27, 2008

Some people manage to navigate a midlife crisis, learn from it and move on to a more rewarding life. Then there are those who turn into a person you don’t know, take up with another man/woman and inflict enormous pain on and their family.

Whether your spouse works through their midlife crisis without doing too much harm or turns into a bull in a china shop and destroys everything, they will go through changes. Changes that will leave you confused and wondering what you can do to help yourself and your spouse and hopefully save your marriage.

This article is about helping yourself survive your spouse’s midlife crisis. If it helps your spouse, great. If it saves your marriage, great. The only way you are going to be of any help to your spouse or possibly save your marriage is to learn how you can navigate their crisis without it costing you too much emotionally.

Focus On Yourself And Your Children:

It may seem impossible to not try to control your spouse’s actions during a midlife crisis. You aren’t doing your spouse or yourself any favor when you become obsessed with what they are doing or thinking. You have no control over what your spouse does or doesn’t do. You do, however have complete control over...read more about midlife crisis

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October 30, 2008 at 8:35 pm
(1) Shafi Farooq says:

Two people America is voting for: McCain and Palin.

McCain, by all accounts, is an adulterer. Republicans don’t mind.

Palin is the mother of a 17-year old unwed daughter who is pregnant. That’s one thing. The irony is that Palin has paraded her pregnant unwed 17 year daughter on stages all over America with so much pride as if she has done a God-fearing deed.

I wonder what Jesus Christ would have said about these two jokers.

The sadist part is that a lot of people are following them. Nobody gives a darn about these things any more.

Please read comments by
Laurie Caplan in the NYtimes.com

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