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Excertped from Doubletake column on WBAL

I am 39½ years old. I always thought I would not make it to see my 40th birthday. Is there a support group for men and women either turning or who have already turned 40?

I am overweight and all I wanted was to lose my weight before I turned 40 (I decided that at 38).I have a good job, I own my own house, my son is almost 19 and I have been amicably divorced for 5 years now. I love the house that I live in and I don’t see changing jobs as an option but I am also lonely sometimes.

I am beginning to feel like I will be an old maid with 50 cats. I guess you might say I am having a mid-life crisis and I don’t know what to do about it. I need help. I need to talk to other people my age or slightly older who survived turning 40 and hopefully now enjoy life.

Read Doubletake’s Answer to the question

Forty might be the new 30. But while social attitudes about chalking up 480 months and 350,400 hours have changed, it is still a big deal, big enough for its own television show. “The Big 4-0,” a new reality series that begins on Wednesday night on TV Land, documents people turning 40 in the age of Botox, Viagra, fat-sucking surgery and life coaches.