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The Rational Male 101 – Ep. #33: Myth of the Midlife Crisis
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EPISODE #33 – The Myth of the Midlife Crisis
The most common story I listened to when I did peer counseling back in college was the disillusioned married guy. Most of these guys were professionals, late 30’s to early 40s and all their stories were the same; “I feel like I’ve done everything anyone ever expected of me for the past 10-15 years and I get no appreciation for it.” These guys “did the right thing” and either their wive’s were unresponsive to them or they still viewed these men as a “fixer upper” project that they were constantly working on.
This experience is what helped me to better understand the myth of the Mid-Life Crisis. Men, in most western culture’s do in fact experience a mid-life crisis, but this isn’t due to the trivialized and oft ridiculed by pop culture reasoning. Women, and feminization, would have us believe that men experiencing a mid-life crisis need to buy a sports car or divorce their wives in favor of a ‘trophy wife’ due to some repressed need to recapture their lost youth. This of course fits into the feminized myth that men are egoists, simple creatures and masculinity is infantile in nature, but this only serves to reassure women that they “still got it” at 40.
The truth about men’s mid-life crises isn’t about recapturing youth, it’s about finally understanding the trappings they’ve been sold into through their 20’s and 30’s and coming to terms with that often horrible truth. Some men do in fact buy the sports car, get the new hottie wife or act in some fashion that appears reckless and irresponsible.
Today Pat and I will explore the Myth of the Midlife Crisis for men. We'll delve into how men realizing their personal worth potential after they've made binding life decisions affects a man's psyche.
Why is a crisis for men 'infantile' while a woman's going Eat, Pray Love something transformational?
Is it more accurate to call it a 'Midlife Epiphany' (rather than a 'crisis') when a man comes to realize his role in a woman's sexual strategy after he's made commitments to her that directed the course of his life?
Bonus Question: Is there anything sadder than a man who is ashamed to be seen with his wife?
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