I stopped buying the SI Swimsuit edition, now I just look at it on the internet. Is that a crisis?

A former co-worker (ex-Navy fighter pilot) told me that his policy was it's still ok to look, which worked out fine until he realized that they were his daughter's age.:p

I'm waiting on my mid-life crisis...'cause if it happens this week it'll mean I'm living to age 110.

Dueller I believe you are single. So does it really matter if you have a mid life crisis when you are single? You have free rein to cut a wide swath anyway as it does not impact on anybody except yourself. :):)Just my .05 cents worth....

Sorta like the age old philosophical riddle: If a man is in the woods alone and says something is he still wrong if there's no woman there to hear him?:D

I'm waiting to have mine when i can afford it :rolleyes:

I was thinking along those same lines re the forest and the trees etc.
I think that I am past that stage. My wife would be the first to let me know if I was going off the rails. Also women are capable of mid life crisis too. It is painful to watch any kind of significant marital discord due midlife crisis. :eek::eek:

Nothing worse than an aging histrionic.:eek:

Perhaps the drug companies could come up with something for that. Aging histrionics are plentiful but finding the willing recipients to take the pill could be a problem.....:eek::eek:

Lol, well it isn't as bad as you think. I was drinking 5-6 Diet Cokes per day before I quit so I did have a mild headache for about three days. Other than that it was actually much easier than I thought.

Main benefits so far are much improved sleep, I pretty much sleep through the night now whereas I was waking up at least once or twice a night before. That lead to midnight snacks which led to more weight gain...you get the point. Also, surprisingly I seem to have more energy. I've lost about 6 lbs so that might be part of it too.

One other possible benefit is improved heartburn. I hadn't thought about it but I haven't had to take a Prilosec in a week. Much if that is probably also that I changed my diet, more veggies and minimal carbs. Smaller meals too.

I still drink iced tea when we go out to dinner but its been almost a week since I had a Diet Coke. So far, so good.

Real mid-life crises
 

My wife and budget won't allow a decent crisis. :)

That's when I quit renewing my Playboy subscription...when the Playmates began being younger than my daughter.

I planned ahead. I have the young wife and two sports cars. Come to think of it though, I am short a spoon or two.

I don't think buying toy's ever had anything to do with age. When I bought a corvette when I was 40 my wife's friends would say I was just going thru a mid-life crisis, but I had a corvette back when I was 21 also. I bought a motorcycle a few years later, same story, but I had motorcycles back when I was a teenager also. It had more to do with the years raising a family that I just didn't feel like spending the money at the time.

Now the plane may be a different story. Its not that I didn't alway's want one, but I realized that if I wanted to learn, and buy a plane, that I couldn't keep putting it off. And no one is saying anything now. Maybe at 55 they think I'm past it.

I really need to buckle down and quit drinking the Diet Cokes. I'm at the 5-6 a day level and don't sleep well at all. Tried before, but got terrible head aches. Plus I just like the taste.

I went from College to a job a held for 25 years. I was 46 when a health scare made me decide I wanted to do something different and I didn't want to be stressed. . June 1st will complete the first 5 years of retirement for me. So far so good:)

Maybe not a mid-life crisis--just a continual fine-tuning of my life's direction. I have adjusted many, many times as we all do. Still haven't really deviated that far from the original path--trying to emulate my father as closely as possible--and trying to be the man I've always thought he is.

I'm at 4 cups of coffee and one diet coke a day. Been here for awhile which is better than it had been. Sleep sucks most nights and the diet coke makes me fart like a plow horse. I gotta get off of pop completely but that fizz is good stuff.

There is a reason you are still single. It sounds like permanent midlife crisis and you are having a lot of fun. The down side is you have no children but that is obviously not important to you. The other downside of having a young woman by your side is that people do not know if that is your GF or your daughter! :):)

I don't have the energy.