The middle years
“What were your evenings like, on the average weeknight, in your mid-forties?”
Tips for asking
The walk home, the meal, the television, what you said to whoever you said it to.
Listen for
Would the version of you in your twenties have envied or pitied that evening?
More from The middle years
“Tell me about something you let go of in midlife — a habit, a hope, a friendship, a story about yourself.”
“Looking back, what kind of mid-life crisis (small or large, named or unnamed) did you actually have?”
“If you could send a single sentence back to yourself at the busiest point of your life, what would it say?”