A sports car appears in the driveway. He arrives home with clothes that cost a fortune – and would look better on your son. He’s missing in bed and you find him gazing at old record/CD covers, looking sad, at 2am.
Welcome to your partner’s midlife crisis – something that makes for great dinner party stories but should also ring alarm bells.
It might be a cliché – and our reactions to one often are – but underneath it is a man panicking about his mortality, lost dreams and a growing sense that life hasn’t delivered what he expected.
My husband and I
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