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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nearing 60.  Great kid, terrible marriage (separated), mediocre career.  Obsessed with making my 60s the best decade of my life by going all out.[/quote]

My mom's life imploded when in her late 50s (career and relationships in the toilet, homeless, bankrupt, lost pretty much everything you can lose, etc.). She moved, changed careers, and began again. This time she did what she loved, lived in a place she loved, and saved like crazy. She consciously decided to set aside romantic relationships and just focused on being happy on her own. It took a few years, but eventually her new career took off, she found a great apartment in a wonderful town, made a ton of friends, traveled the world, and found great meaning and joy volunteering with a local theater company. Without a doubt, the last 20 years were the happiest of her life. Losing everything was the best thing that ever happened to her.

You can do it too, pp. Just focus on what makes you happy and do that.[/quote]

Thanks for posting this. As a likely widow-to-be at age 50, I need all the stories like this I can hear.

If this thread had gone up six months ago, I would have posted the same as many of you--great life, financially secure, great marriage, doing everything that I/we want.

And then my husband got a CT scan for some abdominal pain, and is now six months into Stage 4 cancer.

If I may be a downer--[b]everything is fine until it isn't.[/b]

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Truer words were never spoken. You take the life you have for granted and then it disappears. [/quote]

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