{"id":12709,"date":"2024-09-10T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2024-09-10T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:25:26","slug":"questions-to-ask-your-partner-at-midlife-according-to-couples-counselors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12709","title":{"rendered":"Questions to Ask Your Partner at Midlife, According to Couples Counselors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Therapists and relationship researchers share 6 questions that can bring couples closer during this stage.<\/p>\n

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Midlife can be a weird time. Maybe you\u2019re grappling with new aches and pains or brain fog<\/a>. Perhaps you\u2019re one of the 2.5 million sandwich generation<\/a> caregivers simultaneously caring for children and aging parents. Maybe you\u2019re having an identity crisis, maybe not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Middle age lands somewhere between 36 and 64<\/a>, or maybe 40 to 60<\/a>, depending on whom you ask. It is also an inflection point in relationships, experts say, a time when many couples emerge from the daily grind of building careers and a family, and find that they\u2019re in a union they no longer fully recognize. Rates of \u201cgray divorce\u201d among adults over 50 have doubled<\/a> in the United States since the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have children, your children are typically launching,\u201d said Linda Hershman, the author of \u201cGray Divorce\u201d and a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Pennsylvania. \u201cCouples are suddenly turning around and looking at each other and thinking: What is this marriage about, and what is this marriage going to be about?\u201d<\/p>\n

We asked Ms. Hershman and other relationship experts to offer some big-picture questions that middle-aged couples can discuss \u2014 or can ask themselves \u2014 to help them better understand their relationships, and what they want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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