Are we all heading for a mid-life crisis?

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I was completely taken aback recently when I read a Standard Life Bank research report which found that more than 10 million Brits are in the throes of a mid-life crisis!

My first thought was: that’s an awful lot of people full of regrets and drowning their sorrows down the local pub. But I shouldn’t have worried because when someone has a mid-life crisis today, instead of hitting the bottle and reaching for a box of Kleenex, they dust themselves off and start a second life. And I’m not talking about creating a fictional Avatar in a virtual world. This is real life stuff with people launching head long into new relationships. I’ve been married and worked for Standard Life for more than 20 years and so I couldn’t help but be a little envious of all these peo...

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