Lifestyle
Psychology says it's normal for our social circles to shrink in our 60s and 70s — it's exactly what a healthy nervous system does when the time horizon ahead gets shorter, quietly narrowing attention to the relationships that still feel like home, and the friends who fell away were almost never the ones doing the loving in the first place
The men and women who don't feel guilty after an affair are rarely the people pop culture imagines, they're usually the ones who tried to talk about the distance for years, gave up quietly, and stopped expecting their partner to notice they had gone
The 1950s generation was raised to keep its emotions inside the house, and is now being asked, in their seventies, to suddenly become emotionally fluent for grandchildren who can name feelings they were never allowed to have
The thing about growing up lower middle class in the 1960s or 70s or is that you didn't know you were poor until someone told you — and that moment, whenever it came, divided your childhood into before and after
People raised in the 1980s aren't sentimental about mixtapes, they're remembering the last time attention was a gift you took hours to assemble for someone instead of a notification you sent in seconds
