The Midlife Crisis Survival Guide: How to Navigate Doubt, Regret, Aging, and Change

By: Farners, Teresa

At some point, life stops feeling like a series of possibilities and starts feeling suspiciously like evidence.

The career happened. Or didn't. The relationship lasted. Or didn't. Children arrived, didn't arrive, or were never part of the plan. The body has begun issuing increasingly specific complaints. Old ambitions resurface. Former decisions acquire new meanings. And somewhere between checking retirement projections and wondering whether moving to another country would solve everything, a dangerous question appears:

Is this really it?

The Midlife Crisis Survival Guide takes apart the doubts, regrets, fantasies, fears, and sudden urges that tend to appear when time becomes harder to ignore. It explores aging, work, money, relationships, dating, childlessness, parenthood, friendship, mortality, nostalgia, status, desire, burnout, and the persistent fantasy that one dramatic decision could somehow reorganize the entire universe.

Why do abandoned paths look better from a distance? Why does success sometimes feel strangely disappointing? Why do old relationships improve so dramatically in memory? When is dissatisfaction a signal that something needs to change-and when is it simply Tuesday?

This is a book about looking closely at the life you have, the lives you didn't live, and the changes that suddenly seem urgent when the future no longer appears unlimited.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLLGFHZM
• ISBN13: 9798178067765
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"