Midlife crisis
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- May
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I was talking to a male colleague today about the married Staten Island congressman who’s messed up in recent weeks. As you’ve likely heard, Vito Fossella was arrested for drunk driving, and a short time later everybody learned he’s got a three-year-old daughter from an affair.
Anyway, my colleague pointed out that the early 40s are a dangerous time for men. And it made me think. Are men more prone to midlife crises than women?
Of the middle-aged men you know, did most go through some sort of crazy behavior in their early 40s?
How many women do you know who’ve had real midlife crises? Aren’t most of us too busy for that?
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Baby boomer Linda Lombroso was born in Queens and grew up in Port Washington. She began her journalism career at New York Magazine and Rolling Stone, and came back to the field after spending 10 years as a stay-at-home mother. Linda joined The Journal News in 1997 and has been a Life & Style writer since 2000. She has three children.
I think what happens is when the man gets caught it makes the papers. when the woman gets caught no one hears because she claims it was his fault anyway.
The man never gets an even break, especially when he is right.
Come on Steve, I know you can’t possibly be saying that drunk driving and having a child with someone other than your wife is RIGHT. Can you please rephrase?
momanon. oh yeah i never said that was right. I shall rephrase.
What I meant to say is, when a guy has an affair, its midlife crisis. Drunk Driving is just stupidity.
When A woman does it, and they do…, well the come up with a more elegant excuse, like its the husbands fault. he;s never home , he’s always working amking money and putting rings on my fingers.
The rest of us guys, struggle day to day and do the right thing and catch the brunt of these idiots.
Was this particular guy an idiot. Absolutely.
Are there woman out there as stupid? yep. just like that mom a few months ago who drove drunk with her daughter and her friend in the car.
All I am saying is, its only human to feel the urge to find companionship outside of wedlock. Its a genetic thing. we arent dolphins or any other species that mates for life. Being primates, and you have seen this at the zoo and in the wild. There is no monogamy, we struggle to maintain it. But for some couples the drive s too strong.
Sad but its true and its the nature of the beats. So one shouldnt be surprised when it happens. One can laugh at the stupidity at the way the person did it and got caught. e.g. Spitzer and this guy Vito.
Ok momanon. did i do better?
Prime example of a dad getting screwed and the mom.. nothing..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354990,00.html
read carefully. while staying with mom she skipped.. but dad is in jail.
Thanks, Steve – that was MUCH better. And I also found the whole “no GED so Dad goes to jail” thing completely absurd. But shame on the daughter for letting it go that far. She and her family were under a court order to get it done and the consequences were clear.
Having said that, I cannot believe that a court can order you to get a GED. They can order you to go to school, but they cannot order you to PASS. Next they’re going to be enforcing a rule about which way to hang the toilet paper (over versus under). Ridiculous what they’re getting involved in.
momannon- always glad to make things clearer.
as for the GED thing: Welcome to Rome and all of Rome’s children. Your children arent yours but children of Rome. you have been assigned to care for them under Rome’s guidelines. Failure to do so will mean either imprisonment or death.
Every Book about Police states is coming true.
1984,Fahrenheit 451 , animal farm, name it.. its happening..