our generation's male midlife crisis

The old cliché was that a man would wake up one morning and realize that he wanted his youth back. The new version is that he never reached adulthood in the first place.

In their most conscious moments, these new midlifers realize their partners are witty and smart and want to make life easy and fun for them. But at some base level, they're turned off by the sweaty maneuvering of the type A girl, she knows what she wants and goes after it without apology.

and so this sums up most of my last relationship. click here to read it all.