The term ‘midlife crisis’ didn’t enter the lexicon until 1965, but its gestation stretched across the 18th and 19th centuries. Paul Taylor/Stone via Getty Images

How midlife became a crisis

The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as inevitable as aging itself. It wasn’t always this way.

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