![]() ![]() Or to live on their own, launch a career, marry in their late 20s (or never) or choose to stay home with their children. ![]() They belong to Generation X, born roughly during the baby bust, from 1965 to 1984, the Title IX babies who were the first women in their families to go to college. They're just entering, slogging through or just leaving their 40s. When I reached out to strangers for this story, I heard the same toxic brew of fear, anxiety and anger.Īs I cooked dinner the other night, I thought about the women I had been talking to. "Yeah, my friends think it's a hilarious story too," she says, "but in reality, it was dark and awful." Her first thought as she stood over the broken glass: "I have to find a good therapist…right…now."įor a while, I thought it was just Type A strivers, but then I started hearing the same sort of thing even from my low-key friends. She told him, "If you don't help, I'm going to smash your iPad!" He didn't, and, as if possessed, she grabbed a metal hammer and whacked it to pieces. She told her son to start gathering his stuff he didn't move. With some luck, she could catch a few hours of sleep before their 5 a.m. The night before, she started packing at 10 p.m. While working three jobs and raising two kids, she decided to cheer herself up and planned a trip for her and her 11-year-old son. "I'd leave," she says, "if I had more money." A woman I used to work with tells me that she lets people believe her impressive LinkedIn profile is the truth, but that secretly she is underemployed and feels like a failure.Ī friend of a friend tells me that she's having a rough time as a single mother since her husband left her. I run into another and ask how it's going with her kids' father, whom, last I heard, she was fighting with. One spent a whole winter getting a babysitter for her toddler daughter in the middle of the day and then used the time to go to the movies and cry. ![]()
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