Citations:middlescence

Noun: "the period or condition of middle age, especially as a time of transition comparable to adolescence"

 * 1968 — Jean Baer, The Single Girl Goes to Town: A Knowing Guide to Men, Maneuvers, Jobs, and Just Living for Big City Women, Macmillan (1968), page 119:
 * There's a condition I think of as "middlescence." It hits a man in his late thirties or early forties. Symptoms: he finds life dull, boring; he needs a change of job or family.
 * 1973 — Eda J. LeShan, The Wonderful Crisis of Middle Age: Some Personal Reflections, McKay (1973), ISBN 9780679503989, page 8:
 * To move creatively and courageously into a second adolescence — a "middlescence" — is to invoke the exultant cry of Martin Luther King on a never-to-be-forgotten moment of affirmation on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
 * 1974 — Gail Sheehy, "Catch-30 and Other Predictable Crises of Growing Up Adult", New York, 18 February 1974:
 * He can tint out the gray in his hair, tone up the doughy muscles of middlescence on the most exquisitely devised exercise tables in Manhattan, take the woman of his choice out to dinner at "21", and take back any traces of psychic discomfort to a Park Avenue psychiatrist.
 * 1977 — Dorothy Corkille Briggs, Celebrate Your Self: Making Life Work for You, Doubleday (1977), page 185:
 * Middlescence, even for the high self-esteemer, involves the search for a particular quality of life — a mellowing of many earlier strivings, a reassessment of values, priorities and goals, a questioning of future personal possibilities.
 * 1978 — Iris Sangiuliano, In Her Time, Morrow (1978), ISBN 0688033776, page 124:
 * In the whirling blender of "middlescence," filled to the brim with our husbands' complacency, dissatisfaction, or wandering eyes, add still another ingredient for those of us who also are mothers— our children's rebellions, recriminations, or departures.
 * 1978 — Richard Woods, Another Kind of Love: Homosexuality and Spirituality, Image Books (1978), page 81:
 * As "middlescence" approaches, many lesbians are especially tempted to "let go," meeting the so-called ravages of time with grim surrender rather than graceful acceptance.
 * 1980 — Richard P. Olson, Mid-life: A Time to Discover, A Time to Decide: A Christian Perspective on Middle Age, Judson Press (1980), ISBN 9780817008598, page 134:
 * Since middlescence is the reconsidering of many youthful themes, perhaps it's time to dream again.
 * 1983 — Charlotte Berglas, Mid-Life Crisis, Technomic Publishing Co. (1983), ISBN 9780877623229, page ix:
 * I find myself reflecting across the years, the dreams we have dreamed, our successes and failures, joys and sorrows, the inevitable change as we approach middlescence and how we learn to cope and adjust as we go along.
 * 1988 — Josiah Thompson, Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye, Fawcett Crest (1989), ISBN 9780449217696, page 65:
 * Or was I a broken-down college professor living out a spasm of middlescence on the golden coast of Califomia?
 * 1992 — John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, Anchor Books (1992), ISBN 9780385422208, page 194:
 * Only her new enthusiasm for marine biology — and a private pitch from her father that her company might oil the troubled waters of her parents' middlescence — had induced her to leave her Musalām for a fortnight and join the birthday cruise.
 * 1998 — James E. Loder, The Logic of the Sprit: Human Development in Theological Perspective, Jossey-Bass (1998), ISBN 9780787909192, page 286:
 * Middlescence, like adolescence, is a major developmental turning point.
 * 2006 — Ken Dychtwald & Daniel J. Kadlec, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, Thorndike Press (2006), ISBN 9780786285679, page 23:
 * You haven't been wrong to sacrifice friendships for career and family in your middlescence.