You hear all the time about male midlife crisis, second puberty and the like. But women are also experiencing a midlife crisis. This is how it manifests itself.
1. She is depressed and withdraws into herself. He constantly talks about how he feels unhappy, lost, empty inside, and uses such "theatrical" expressions.
2. She is not satisfied with her life or your marriage. She strives for a new life, in which you, as a rule, do not figure.
3. She treats you coldly and shows no interest in any of the activities you would normally do together.
4. It seems to you that you are sick with some incurable, highly contagious disease because of the way she shuns you and avoids any contact with you.
5. She says she sacrificed her life by giving herself to the roles of wife and mother. She does not feel full and says that her life has passed through her fingers.
6. Assumes (or, perhaps, says directly) that she needs a "pause" in order to understand what she wants from life and where it belongs.
7. Only freedom and independence flies from her lips, so you feel like she spent the previous 30 years as a galley slave.
8. She furiously set about losing weight. He works out every day, and begins to worry about his figure so much that it scares you.
9. She spends all her free time in front of the mirror. She devotes much more attention to her appearance than before, and is at the height of ecstasy if by chance someone guesses her less than she really is.
