Midlife Mastery Journal

Apart from outright physical and emotional abuse, I believe that many (if not all) relationships “on the rocks” could be healed under the right circumstances. From my perspective, the fact that this healing so often fails to take place could be an indication that one or both of the partners have stopped listening. Additionally, ceasing to listen indicates a spiritual problem.

Certainly, illicit relationships (going out on your partner) can happen at any time of life. When they do, I believe that they’re always narcotic relationships.

Think about it: who’s responsible for the mess you’re in right now? (Don’t tell me it’s not a mess . . . I know better!)

What’s on the other side of the mountain? You don’t need me to tell you that: you already know. Life is on the other side of the mountain: your life. It’s not a dress rehearsal, it’s not a fantasy. It’s as real as can be.

The midlife question does to your thinking what Einstein’s Theory of Relativity did to Newtonian physics. As the quote from The Messiah’s Handbook from Richard Bach’s novel, Illusions, states, “Everything in this book may be wrong.”