If for "mid-life crisis" you put "retirement," you've got my current concern; & if you put the two together, you'd mash up a lot of the woes on the board!

Shall we invite "teen-age angst" and have a party?!

jK.

But yes. Life's Major Intersections tend to suck. The individuals in them, though, have ways to work things out. Post more. Folks here have dozens of lifetimes of experience & the wisdom distilled from them. They are so generous with the knowledge they've wrested from painful living.