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.
Exactly! I find it ironic because I have a family and a very full life, and yet in some ways I feel more alone than I did when I was single in my 20s. I've come to realize that it's not that I'm alone, but that I'm not looking to the next relationship/achievement/adventure to save me. There's just...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.
Exactly! I find it ironic because I have a family and a very full life, and yet in some ways I feel more alone than I did when I was single in my 20s. I've come to realize that it's not that I'm alone, but that I'm not looking to the next relationship/achievement/adventure to save me. There's just...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
This is the correct response.