Tag: midlife crisis affair

• Essay: The Midlife Affair: Why the Forties and Fifties Are Peak Affair Years — and What’s Really Driving It

  Affairs peak in the forties and fifties — and it’s rarely about sports cars or lost youth. What’s really behind the midlife affair, and what people do next. Paul’s moment arrived on an artificial pitch in Cheshire, eleven minutes into a Wednesday five-a-side game he’d played for fifteen years. His knee went — nothing dramatic,…