I have a wonderful supportive family but this line of yours is spot on. “What’s disconcerting about middle age is the realization that you’re all you’ve got”. It was both terrifying and liberating to realize that the only one would could “save” me is me.
I'm enjoying the brief window of time I have between being dismissed and underestimated as a young woman and being ignored and irrelevant in middle-age
I have a wonderful supportive family but this line of yours is spot on. “What’s disconcerting about middle age is the realization that you’re all you’ve got”. It was both terrifying and liberating to realize that the only one would could “save” me is me.
I'm enjoying the brief window of time I have between being dismissed and underestimated as a young woman and being ignored and irrelevant in middle-age