The central period of a person's life, generally considered as the years from about 45 to 55.
‘a woman in midlife’
‘your midlife financial review’
‘For these reasons, it seems appropriate to consider possible developmental edges of varying magnitudes within the period of midlife development.’
‘Age-specific mortality rates in males and females are highly correlated, especially at midlife and the oldest ages.’
‘You know what's wrong with us mature adults in midlife and beyond?’
‘But then, as happens in midlife, the second generation of the car, the Mustang 2, got fat and lazy.’
‘Studies suggest that grown kids' well-being is a major determinant of well-being for midlife parents.’
‘For some midlife parents, the empty nest isn't an issue simply because the nest hasn't really emptied.’
‘One of the explanations provided for this finding is the importance of work investments as a buffer against the challenges of parenting adolescents during midlife.’
‘In midlife, I find myself in a land where, for the first time, I do not recognize the plants: what is edible, what blooms when, what sets seed when.’
‘But slowly, subtly, sometime around midlife, your particular data points start to arrange themselves on the larger human curve.’
‘In its place, there is a rich variety of paths that include self-employment, entrepreneurship, and midlife career changes.’
‘In midlife, the boys attain the highest reaches of power and find that all the years of striving and conniving have left them feeling empty and unfulfilled.’
‘His first bout of depression hadn't struck until midlife.’
‘Healy's midlife interest in pet ownership, we conclude, is an attempt to resolve his childhood grief, and hence to confront the demons that have haunted him ever since.’
‘I suspect that the requirement for more education and the fading-out of creativity in midlife may stem from the same cause.’
‘It's related - it's not something that you can start to treat at midlife.’
‘He nearly squandered all that until, at midlife, he learned how to leverage his personality with his inheritance.’
‘My quest to tell the truth led me in midlife to my dream career.’
‘The government policy is to extend flexible working rights to midlife carers of older people, which will help them with the work-life balance.’
‘It's all the more poignant and meaningful to me because we were in midlife - I was 43 when I met him and he was 50.’
‘The biggest midlife event comes on the heels of postponing change.’
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