Is "mid-life crisis" a male thing?

[StillStunned]

I've coped by writing erotica. Or strokers, if you prefer.

 

[Lifestyle66]

But I'm damned if I can think of any women who've had one.
What makes it such a male thing?

Maybe you should read more of the LW stories to find the women's equivalent mid-life crisis. They explore at lot there with women succumbing to the Martian Slut Ray.

The stories begin with the wife saying "We need to talk ..." Then she tells her husband to go buy a sports car, while she's heading out the door with bag packed for a weekend in bed with her boss.

 

[la_ruche]

Unfortunately I’d say it’s a man thing.

 

[HordHolm]

I think Marianne's been through enough to have some perspective on this...

 

[MillieDynamite]

I would think women having affairs after 20+ years of marriage would constitute a midlife crisis. They are entering or in menopause, losing the ability to create life. All the while, their husbands have lost interest in sex, at least with them, and every fuck she has may be her last. Even cuckolding stories with a 40+ woman can be interpreted as a reaction to the clock of life hitting noon and knowing they're halfway to nothingness.

 

[HordHolm]

I would think women having affairs after 20+ years of marriage would constitute a midlife crisis. They are entering or in menopause, losing the ability to create life. All the while, their husbands have lost interest in sex, at least with them, and every fuck she has may be her last. Even cuckolding stories with a 40+ woman can be interpreted as a reaction to the clock of life hitting noon and knowing they're halfway to nothingness.

Or the flipside - it could be the last, best chance to make a better, more fulfilling future.

 

[Devinter]

... the clock of life hitting noon and knowing they're halfway to nothingness.

 

[Escierto]

I always find the idea of a midlife crisis interesting, because at 61, I don’t think I got a chance to have one because I’ve had so many other crises come up through my adult life, from losing jobs to my first wife passing away and so on, where I’ve had to keep starting over… I’m not even sure around what age it is supposedly happening at, to be honest. Maybe I’m having mine late?

They say it’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Well, maybe it’s never to late to have a midlife crisis.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Breaking Bad was about the ultimate mid-life crisis.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

how about when you're a 35 years old woman, don't have kids but want kids. That can be a corollary to what's already been discussed.

I mean its not impossible to have a baby later than 35. Its not the end of all hope. A cousin of mine had a baby at 39, then another at 42. But at 35 the biological window is closing... and even if you don't want kids, or tell yourself you don't want kids, you're at the age where many of your friends have kids, and you're watching them grow up and it seems like a happy and fulfilling life. Or maybe you're seeing your parents grow old. Theyre in their twilight, and you can't help but think how nice it would be to give them grandkids, because you know, even if they're careful to not talk about having grandkids around you, you can see, unequivocally, that they would love it.

That's a sort of a mid-life crisis isn't it? At least a... tri-life crisis?

 

[Deleted member 6666935]

They say it’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Well, maybe it’s never too late to have a midlife crisis.

Maybe!

 

[Deleted member 6666935]

how about when you're a 35 years old woman, don't have kids but want kids. That can be a corollary to what's already been discussed.

I mean its not impossible to have a baby later than 35. Its not the end of all hope. A cousin of mine had a baby at 39, then another at 42. But at 35 the biological window is closing... and even if you don't want kids, or tell yourself you don't want kids, you're at the age where many of your friends have kids, and you're watching them grow up and it seems like a happy and fulfilling life. Or maybe you're seeing your parents grow old. Theyre in their twilight, and you can't help but think how nice it would be to give them grandkids, because you know, even if they're careful to not talk about having grandkids around you, you can see, unequivocally, that they would love it.

That's a sort of a mid-life crisis isn't it? At least a... tri-life crisis?

You could always consider doing what we did and adopting through the state foster system.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Tick... tick... tick...

how about when you're a 35 years old woman, don't have kids but want kids. That can be a corollary to what's already been discussed.

I mean its not impossible to have a baby later than 35. Its not the end of all hope. A cousin of mine had a baby at 39, then another at 42. But at 35 the biological window is closing... and even if you don't want kids, or tell yourself you don't want kids, you're at the age where many of your friends have kids, and you're watching them grow up and it seems like a happy and fulfilling life. Or maybe you're seeing your parents grow old. Theyre in their twilight, and you can't help but think how nice it would be to give them grandkids, because you know, even if they're careful to not talk about having grandkids around you, you can see, unequivocally, that they would love it.

That's a sort of a mid-life crisis isn't it? At least a... tri-life crisis?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Or like we did, finding a young girl in trouble (you know, the family way) and adopting the child right out of the womb. We have tried to keep the mother somewhat involved, but she wants nothing to do with her offspring.

how about when you're a 35 years old woman, don't have kids but want kids. That can be a corollary to what's already been discussed.

I mean its not impossible to have a baby later than 35. Its not the end of all hope. A cousin of mine had a baby at 39, then another at 42. But at 35 the biological window is closing... and even if you don't want kids, or tell yourself you don't want kids, you're at the age where many of your friends have kids, and you're watching them grow up and it seems like a happy and fulfilling life. Or maybe you're seeing your parents grow old. Theyre in their twilight, and you can't help but think how nice it would be to give them grandkids, because you know, even if they're careful to not talk about having grandkids around you, you can see, unequivocally, that they would love it.

That's a sort of a mid-life crisis isn't it? At least a... tri-life crisis?

And to be perfectly honest, I think that's for the best.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

You could always consider doing what we did and adopting through the state foster system.

Yep! I know that's a possibility and I have friends who have done this and find it an absolute blessing and joy!

I also have a friend who froze her eggs...

 

[Martles]

Or like we did, finding a young girl in trouble (you know, the family way) and adopting the child right out of the womb. We have tried to keep the mother somewhat involved, but she wants nothing to do with her offspring.

And to be perfectly honest, I think that's for the best.

Huge admiration for you doing this, the child is lucky to have you as parents.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Or like we did, finding a young girl in trouble (you know, the family way) and adopting the child right out of the womb. We have tried to keep the mother somewhat involved, but she wants nothing to do with her offspring.

And to be perfectly honest, I think that's for the best.

Thats amazing.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Tick... tick... tick...

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[Carnevil9]

Women are wired to be mothers. It is good for the propagation of the species. They feel fulfilled and completed by it. So when they wake up one day and realize that they have a house full of rug rats of various ages, they have no problem with it.

Men, on the other hand, are wired to fuck anything with a pussy, and then move on. It is good for the propagation of the species. So when they wake up one fine day and realize they haven't fucked more than one woman in twenty years, it freaks them right the fuck out! The crisis is that they have to find a way to rationalize that they are doing what is good for their family despite it being contrary to every fiber of their nature. Then they go out and buy a motorcycle/sports car/speed boat to try to deal with it.

 

[StillStunned]

Women are wired to be mothers. It is good for the propagation of the species. They feel fulfilled and completed by it. So when they wake up one day and realize that they have a house full of rug rats of various ages, they have no problem with it.

Fortunately by now plenty of women have evolved to have minds of their own.

 

[djrip]

Fortunately by now plenty of women have evolved to have minds of their own.

Someday it may happen for men too!

 

[MillieDynamite]

My biological clock was broken years ago in my teen years.

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[StillStunned]

My biological cock was broken years ago in my teen years.

Was that an intentional typo, or something Freudian? Or just force of habit from writing lots of erotica?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Not only yes, but hell, YES! Fixed now. Thanks.

Was that an intentional typo, or something Freudian? Or just force of habit from writing lots of erotica?

 

[gtnlynn]

I think my wife had a bit of a crisis after having two babies and wondering if she was still attractive. Thank goodness, at that same time, several younger men who called on her medical office began to flirt with her. Or maybe she began to notice it more. She took on the role of the sexy older woman (35) and her crisis was over.