Oprah.com: The New Midlife Crisis

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This summer, Oprah.com editor Mamie Healey called to ask if I'd investigate how Gen X women are doing in middle age. Dozens of interviews and mountains of research later, here's a 6,000-word answer: "The New Midlife Crisis." (In short: If you're exhausted, scared about money, underemployed, and/or overwhelmed, you're far from alone...)