Interview With Marc Freedman on the Midlife Crisis

'The Big Shift' argues for a new life stage

by: Glenn Hodges, from: AARP Bulletin, May 12, 2011

En español |The first time Marc Freedman used his AARP card, he was a 50-year-old with two small children, and it felt so weird he wondered whether the hotel clerk was going to accuse him of fraud. He survived the shock, but as he progressed further into his 50s, he noticed that he and his friends were struggling with a similar problem — a sense that one era of life was ending and another was beginning, and none of the traditional categories seemed to fit. … Back to Article

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