Nobody warns you that your 40s and 50s come with an unexpected amount of existential admin. This section covers the psychological landscape of midlife and later life — identity, purpose, ageing and the transitions that tend to arrive whether you're ready or not. Honest, informed and written for men who'd rather face these things with their eyes open.
Life Stages And Transitions
Grief is one of the few experiences that arrives without asking permission, ignores all previous arrangements, and refuses to behave in the way you've been told it should. Men, in particular, tend to find this inconvenient.
Life Stages And Transitions
It's not a crisis. It's not a cliché. It's a perfectly normal psychological process that most men are completely unprepared for — which is why it tends to arrive like a lorry through the living room wall.
Life Stages And Transitions
Ageing is inevitable. A lot of what men believe about what it does to their minds, however, turns out to be either wrong or considerably more complicated than they've been led to expect.