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A Man in Mid-life crisis The most common manifestation of mid-life crisis is the man having an affair with a younger woman. There are obvious attractions: physical attractiveness, and, if the woman and man meet at work, a bond of mutual admiration formed through seeing each other on the job. However, most observers see the affair with the younger woman as a symptom of a larger problem, not as an independent force that appears and "breaks up" the home. After all, the affair can't happen if the man doesn't open himself up to it. And, despite the daydreaming in which many men may indulge, this tends to happen in the flesh only when there are underlying problems that cause the man to do that. Any of the problems described throughout this section could be the trigger: personal insecurity, failures at work, fear of aging, fear of death, various incompatibilities between the spouses and so on. Also, the man may be experiencing a delayed adolescent rebellion. In any of these situations, the most helpful thing to do, if the parties are willing, is usually to focus not on the affair, but instead to focus back on the marriage, often with therapy, and address the situation there.
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