Voices
VICKI
LARSON
HUFFINGTON
01.20.13
STEVEN MIRIC/GETTY IMAGES
Are Middle-Aged Women
Done With Men?
NOT TOO LONG AGO, I asked
a friend how she’s doing. After
a long pause, she said, “I keep
wondering if this is all there is.”
A lot of us have that feeling.
She and I are both 50-some-
thing and like many 50-somethings, we are empty-nesters or
about to be empty-nesters; we’re
either 20-something years into a
marriage or any number of years
divorced. We’re in midlife, crisis
or not; a time when we question
what we’ve done — and, more
likely, haven’t done — and where
Vicki Larson
is a journalist,
freelance
writer and
columnist
for Mommy
Tracked