What form has your midlife crisis taken?

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What odd decisions or big changes have you made?

I think I've had 2. At 40 I very nearly had an affair. I did the right thing and walked away eventually, but it brought about quite a lot of change in my life as I realised what actually made me tick, rather than what I'd always accepted/been told I wanted from life.

In my early 50s I've suddenly become adventurous and impulsive, in my clothes, my work, travel, doing loads of things I wouldn't have dreamt I was capable of.

About to walk away from my career with nothing to go to with two young children

I gave up a professional career, retrained , moved from the city to a seaside town, got a dog and started my own business.

Piercing. Had one more in one ear, about to have two higher up, and fancying a nose piercing as well.

I gave up working.

Ended my relationship. Vowed to never live with anyone ever again.

Started wearing mini skirts.

Got rid of 3 unsuitable friends.

Far more assertive and no nonsense.

Got into home beauty treatments regimen.

Updated my wardrobe in general.

Stopped taking shit, exercising my righteous rage and learning to rely on my intuition again.

I simply don't spend time with people I don't like
I don't do what I don't want to do
It's been incredibly freeing :)

I started saying Yes. Completely against MN wisdom, but I've found a world of opportunity if you never turn anything down.

I had a surprise baby ( found out at 25 weeks) so I'm too busy for a full blown midlife crisis right now 😂

I stopped being a people pleaser. It's made my life a whole lot better.

I'd love to say I dyed my hair purple and bought a Harley though.

I did travel SE Asia by train though, I wouldn't have done that as a younger woman.

Currently in the middle of a freakout. Turned 50 this year but for some reason feel like I’ve gone completely off the rails in the last two months. Is this a crisis? 🤔 feels like it

Solo travel in various dodgy countries.

I've gotten quite into isopods lately. It started with dd collecting a few in the garden and keeping them in a pot. We now go to reptile and bug shows to buy rare species and spend an alarming amount of time researching isopod diet and husbandry. These are 3 of the species we keep. Rubber duckies, ember bees, and crystal pineapples.

@Spinnymop that is absolutely lovely and fascinating!

No crisis here - not of my own doing anyway. My ex blew our family apart with his.

Contemplating a tattoo...that's it!

@Spinnymop what cool names! 😁

@Spinnymop i used to play with these in the garden when I was small and then I grew up and forgot about them. You have just reminded me how fascinating they are and whilst I was about to go down the Botox route as my crises, I think I shall be getting some isodpos instead. 😊

I want to take up open water swimming next year.

I’m as boring as I’ve ever been! No mid life crisis here I don’t think.

I do care less what people think of me. I guess I feel more confident professionally.

We’ve started going on cruises🤣 The most boring mid life ever🤣

I got a second piercing and started a uni course - level 7 pgdip. Stupid idea! 😂😂😂

Spent about £5k on tattoos between age 38 and 42.

Getting rid of friends who treated me badly.

Stopped being a people pleaser.

Excerising, beauty treatments. Doesn't harm anyone and I feel so much better in my fifties then I did in my twenties.

Enjoying life and having a more work/home balance.

Seriously many times considered what it would be like to walk into one of the deep, dark, cold, remote, lonely reservoirs on the moors where I live & walk my little dogs.

Yep. In the past 18 months or so I've re-pierced old piercings in ears so now have 3 in one lobe and 2 in the other, a helix piercing, and a secret nipple piercing.
Oh and I got a new tattoo when my last ones were done 20+ years ago.

Here for ideas 😁